Brazil with Bird's Wildlife & Nature - 12th June 2023
A full day at Jardim
that started well as we ambled down to the boats with seven Orange-cheeked
Parrots in the gardens and a flock of Santarem Parakeets overhead while a
Bare-necked Fruit Crow gave us a taste of things to come.
Orange-cheeked Parrots
The purpose of the river excursion was
primarily to track down the super rare Cone-billed Tanager that is accessible
here and almost nowhere else in the world.
We were taken into a secret world of a crystal clear hidden
ox-bow lake and within just a few minutes a male Cone-billed Tanager was heard singing and soon
picked up in the flooded forest.Not the
most colourful bird but certainly very high on the rarity list.Two males and two rich brown female were
found along in the margins.
Cone-billed Tanager - male
Cone-billed Tanager - female although I am wondering if the fluff on the nape and still growing outer tail feather may suggest juvenile?
There was so much else to see with a silently sitting Spotted Puffbird, zipping Long-billed Star-throat and Black-throated Mango; Lesser Kiskadees in the marsh grasses and a calling Trogon.
Spotted Puffbird
Black-throated Mango
Purple-throated Euphonia
Exiting the Oxbow
We puttered back onto the main river where amazingly Amazonian
Umbrellabird, bobbly headed Bare-necked Fruitcrow,Red-throated Piping Guans and
White-throated Toucans crossed (and were heard).It was
good to be back on a river again.
Red-throated Piping Guan
A sandbank stop added Swallow-tailed Kite and Greater
Yellow-headed Vultures, a red-bellied Black-tailed Trogon along with Grey
Chested Dove and both Blackish Antbird and punky Glossy Antshrikes while a loop
through the dry forest was challenging but very rewarding with a host of new
species.
Black-tailed Trogon
Greater Yellow-headed Vulture
Blue and Yellow Macaw
Blue and Yellow Macaw
Glossy Antshrike
Glossy Antshrike - full on eye glint!!
It was hot and sweaty and hard work but the new bird kept popping out with Bar-breasted Piculets, Flame Crowned Manakins, glaring Green Backed
Trogon, White-lored Tyrannulet, Greyish Mourner, Yellow-backed, Paradise and
Masked Tanagers were encountered although the Gould’s Toucanets were worth the
effort staring up at the canopy and Rondonia Warbling Antbird won groovy name
of the day. It was very much a bins not camera sort of day. See bird, raise bins, wow, gone again and the light was somewhat challenging at any height.
Green Backed Trogon
Red-shouldered, Blue-winged and Blue and Yellow Macaws
greeted our return to camp only to be trumped by a male Razor-billed Curassow
about to cross the river with his glowing red bill knob.
Razor-billed Curassow - I only had a couple of seconds!
All this was before lunch which of course included a side
dish of newbies with the striking local race of Blue Grey Tanager, Green-tailed
Goldenthroat, Sulphury Flycatcher and Pale-rumped Swifts while Swallow-wing
Puffbirds showed much closer. Palm Swifts zoomed around the lakes.
Swallow-wing Puffbird
Swallow-wing Puffbird
Palm Tanager
Palm Tanager
Blue Grey Tanager - anywhere else that would be a different species!
Sulphury Flycatcher
Some Orchids
It was incredibly hot and humid and the forest spring fed
swimming pool beckoned.Red-throated
Piping Guans and Speckled Chachalacas moved through the tree tops and hundreds
of sulphur butterflies swirled in a co-ordinated tornado along the stream while
we bobbed in the refreshing waters.
Spencer prancing through the Sulphurs!
Ciclid
Arapaina gigas
While in the natural jacuzzi pool we glanced up to see some very furry
faces looking down at us and after the initial panic to get out of the water to
grab optics, we were treated to prolonged views of at least four of the very
rare Meittemeir’s Tapajos Saki monkeys.Even Eduardo had not seen them before.
Meittemeir’s Tapajos Saki
The post swim evening walk was very humid and the light was
quite poor but Jonathan and Eduardo managed to find a wealth of forest dwellers
with two new Hummers – Versicoloured Emerald and White-chinned Sapphire, a gang of
Black-fronted Nunbirds, Natterer’s Slaty Antshrike, Dot Winged Antwrens, the
mini chicken-like Rufous Capped Antthrush, Brown Winged Schiffornis, Moustached
Wrens and Sick’s Swifts overhead.
Black-faced Dacnis
White-lored Tyrannulet
Red-legged Honeycreeper
A magnificent Scaled Pigeon
A Ferruginous Pygmy Owl was singing in the grounds and a Hauxwell’s
Thrush popped into view as the light fell along with at least two stunningly
cryptic Blackish Nightjars that kept moving just ahead of us down the
path.
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