Birds of Brazil

These pictures were taken on a Sawtelle Nature Tours trip to the Pantanal, Serra das Araras, the cerrado forest of Chapada dos Guimaraes National Park, and the coastal rain forest of Itatiaia National Park. Note: The pictures are copyrighted and should not be reproduced without permission.

Greater Rhea

Sunbittern

Herons

Rufescent tiger-heron, Striated heron, Whistling heron, Capped heron, White-necked heron

White-necked heron

Boat-billed heron

Ibis

Green ibis, Plumbeous ibis, Buff-necked ibis

Jabiru

Southern Screamer

Muscovy Duck

Lesser Yellow-Headed Vulture

Hawks, Caracaras, and Falcons

Great black-hawk (juvenile and adult), Black-collared hawk

Savannah hawk

Crane hawk, Laughing falcon (also in Honduras)

Crested caracara

Chachalacas and Guans

Chaco chachalaca, Dusky-legged guan, Chestnut-bellied guan, Blue-throated piping-guan

Bare-faced curassow (female)

Gray-Necked Wood-Rail

Sungrebe and Limpkin

Southern Lapwing

Wattled Jacana

Doves

Long-tailed ground-dove, Scaled dove

Parrots and Parakeets

Hyacinth macaw

Black-hooded parakeet, Monk parakeet, Peach-fronted parakeet, Yellow-chevroned parakeet

Guira Cuckoo

Owls

Least pygmy-owl, Ferruginous pygmy-owl (also in Honduras)

Nightjars, Nighthawks, and Potoos

Common pauraque, Little nightjar

Great potoo

Hummingbirds

Brazilian ruby (male and female), Black jacobin

White-throated hummingbird, Violet-capped wood-nymph, Glittering-throated emerald

Blue-Crowned Trogon

Kingfishers

Ringed kingfisher (male and female), Amazon kingfisher, Green kingfisher, Pygmy kingfisher

Puffbirds

White-eared puffbird, Striolated puffbird, Black-fronted nunbird

Toucans

Saffron toucanet, Toco toucan

Woodpeckers and Woodcreepers

White woodpecker, Yellow-fronted woodpecker, Golden-green woodpecker, Pale-crested woodpecker, Campo flicker

Narrow-billed woodcreeper, Olivaceous woodcreeper, White-throated woodcreeper

Ovenbirds and Allies

Chotoy spinetail

Rufous hornero on nest

Rufous-Winged Antshrike

Tyrant flycatchers

Gray monjita, White-rumped monjita, Blue-billed black-tyrant

Black-backed water-tyrant, Cliff flycatcher, Fork-tailed flycatcher

Lesser kiskadee, Cattle tyrant

Helmeted Manakin

Wrens

Black-capped donacobius, Southern house wren

Bananaquit

Tanagers

Green-headed tanager, Blue-naped chlorophonia, Chestnut-bellied euphonia

Sayaca tanager, Silver-beaked tanager, Golden-chevroned tanager, Swallow tanager

Emberizine finches

Great pampa-finch, Wedge-tailed grass-finch

Saffron finch

Rufous-collared sparrow

Caciques and Orioles

Yellow-rumped cacique, Campo oriole

Our bird pictures from around the world follow standard ecozones approximately but not exactly:

Birds from the USA and Canada:   our house,   Hornsby Bend and greater Austin,   Texas,   California,   Hawaii,   Canada,

Neotropic birds from Central America and the Caribbean:   Honduras,   Costa Rica,   Panama,   Trinidad and Tobago

Neotropic birds from South America:   Ecuador,   Ecuador 2017,   Brazil.

Western palearctic birds:   Europe: Germany, Finland, Norway,   Europe: United Kingdom,   Europe: Spain,   the Canary Islands,   Europe: Lesbos, Greece,   Israel

Eastern palearctic birds:   China

Birds from Africa:   The Gambia,   South Africa

Indo-Malayan birds from   India: North-west (Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand)   India: North-east (Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya)   India: Central (Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh)

Birds from   Australia,   New Zealand.

For our 2014 December trip to India, see this travelog.

For our 2016 May-June trip to India, see this travelog.

For our 2017 April trip to High Island, Texas, see this web site.

For our 2018 March trip to India, see this travelog.

For our 2018 May trip to China, see this travelog.

For our 2018 November trip to China, see this travelog.

For our 2019 April trip to High Island, Texas, see this web site.

For our 2019 July trip to China, see this web site.

For our 2021 April trip to High Island, Texas, see this web site.

For our 2021 December trip to Ecuador, see this web site.

For our 2022 January trip to Peru, see this web site.

For our 2022 July-August trip to Australia and Papua New Guinea, see this web site.

For our 2022 September trip to Bolivia, see this web site.

For our 2022 November-December pre-trip to Argentina (before our Antarctic cruise), see this web site.

For our 2022 November-December cruise to Antarctica, see this web site.

For our 2023 January birding in Chile, see this web site.

For our 2023 January-March cruise from Chile to Antarctica and around South America to Miami, FL, see this web site.

For our 2023 March-April birding in south Florida (after the Seabourn cruise), see this web site.