Once we had fought our way through the Cricket
carnage we still had time for a final look around the grounds at Porto Jofree
with good views of Crested Oropendola, a flock of Greyish Baywings and the
three Ibis species along with the ever stately and frankly intimidating Jabirus.
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Capybara |
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Toilet Tree Frog on the rim... |
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Bare-faced Ibis |
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Buff-necked Ibis |
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Buff-necked Ibis |
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Plumbeous Ibis |
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Jabiru |
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Grey Breasted Martins |
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A final pass by some Black Skimmers |
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Black Vulture |
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Black Vulture |
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Greyish Baywing |
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Greyish Baywing |
It was the vast Victoria Lily pads that caused a slight delay in leaving as we all wanted to get up close to these iconic floating platforms. A Wattled Jacana with three chicks poked up underneath it with legs dangling unfortunately did not venture onto one of them for us!
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Victoria Lilies |
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And a pretty Butterfly |
Time to get back on the road to start retracing our steps
down the Transpantaneira and we soon stopped at our favoured bridge where
Spinetails and Donocobius were seen well again along with a couple of dapper Tawny
Bellied Seedeaters amongst some Rusty Collared relatives.
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Tawny Bellied Seedeaters in the front - Rusty Collared Seedeater behind |
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Rusty Collared Seedeater |
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Rusty Collared Seedeater |
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Rusty Collared Seedeater |
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Rusty Collared Seedeater |
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Southern Screamer
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Turquoise Fronted Amazon |
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Turquoise Fronted Amazon |
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Snail Kite |
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Limpkin |
A White-tailed Goldenthroat was a welcome new
Hummer and Rheas watched us from the drier fields and a little further down the
road Eduardo’s eagle-eyes caused a sudden stop again for a rather scarce
migrant White-banded Mockingbird.
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White-banded Mockingbird |
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White-banded Mockingbird |
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Tropical Kingbirds
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Our next base was at Pantanal Mata Grosso – the only lodge
actually on the road itself. It was
scorching hot and two quite uncomfortable walks either side of lunch provided
us with a wealth of new birds in quite trying conditions not helped by the
state of the trails. It was flycatcher central with Fuscous, Short-crested,
Vermillion, Sepia-capped, Plain Inezia, Stripe-necked and Pearly Vented
Tody-Tyrants, Forest Elaenia, White-headed Marsh and Cattle Tyrants, Tropical Kingbirds and
Southern Beardless Tyrannulet.
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Cattle Tyrant
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Fuscous Flycatcher |
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Sepia-capped Flycatcher |
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Stripe-necked Tody-Tyrant |
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Stripe-necked Tody-Tyrant
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Pearly Vented Tody-Tyrant
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Ashy Headed Greenlets, Helmeted Manakins and Pale-bellied Tyrant-Manakins were
seen well and Buff-breasted Wren and Pale Legged Hornero were seen in the
margins along with Mato Grossa Antbird, a smart female Great Antshrike and a
very showy Red-billed Scythebill.
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Helmeted Manakin |
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Helmeted Manakin |
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Silver-beaked Tanager |
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Buff-breasted Wren |
The Dragonflies and Damselflies were amazing and dazzling in
the sunlight. I hope that I can find
names for them at some stage.
Yellow-collared Macaw was one of our targets and we found a
small group with Blue-crowned Parakeets and Turquoise-fronted Amazons. They are another medium sized Macaw and are
well named.
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Yellow-collared Macaw |
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Yellow-collared Macaw |
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Yellow-collared Macaw |
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Yellow-collared Macaw and Blue-crowned Parakeet |
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Blue-crowned Parakeet |
Our short evening boat trip was fairly quiet but the usual
Kingfishers showed well and there were quite a few Blue-throated Piping Guans and some showy
Yellow-chinned Spinetails but it was the strange whistling that caught our
attention and within a few seconds we had at long last seen a Sunbittern! It was initially close to the bank but
viewing was difficult although it never stopped singing. Some curious positions in the boat had to be
adopted to even get a chance of seeing it.
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Yacare Caiman
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Green Kingfisher |
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Black-collared Hawk |
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Ringed Kingfisher |
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The rafts of floating Water Hyacinth were full of Grasshoppers! |
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Wattled Jacana |
We headed back at sunset with the
usual Band-tailed Nighthawk and Pauraque accompaniment and there was a big roost of noisy Amazons in the tree
tops.
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Band-tailed Nighthawk |
A final torchlight walk out the back gave us Pauraque and
possibly a Scissor-tailed Nightjar on the airstrip while the lights over the
river at the lodge illuminated the Lesser Bulldog Bats as they dipped down for
surface insects and Ferruginous Pygmy Owls started up as we turned in for the
night.
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Moth help required |
Lesser Bulldog Bats
have a look at Diastatops pullata for the red and black dragonfly.
ReplyDeleteTry Hemeroplanes ornatus for the hawkmoth.
ReplyDeletethank you Anonymous person!
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