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OCTOBER 30, 2017

Way down among the Brazillians, Coffee beans grow by the billions, So they’ve got to find those extra cups to fill, They’ve got an awful lot of coffee in Brazil.… The Coffee Song lyrics ran like an earworm through my head as I prepared for my September trip to Brazil. Oh my gosh! 1,712 species, 12% of which are endemics.

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MARCH 12, 2011

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OCTOBER 15, 2024

When you ask someone what they know about Brazil, you will likely hear answers about the world-famous Rio de Janeiro Carnival, the vast Amazon River, or even Iguazu Falls along the border with Paraguay and Argentina. Brazil ranks fifth largest country by area, occupying about half of South America.

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MARCH 7, 2011

Get to it already!

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MARCH 13, 2009

Brazil is one of the world's hotspots for animal smuggling because of its rich diversity of animals. Tags: wildlife crime smuggling brazil trafficking latin america. Police said it was the biggest single operation in the past decade against rampant illegal wildlife traffic in the South American country.

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OCTOBER 23, 2015

When they first landed on its shores in the 1500s, the Portuguese discovered a vast stretch of verdant rainforest cloaking much of the Atlantic coast of what would one day be Brazil. Through centuries of deforestation, only 7% of this forest’s original area remains in remnants scattered within the most densely populated region of Brazil.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2011

The three major strongholds of the Hyacinth Macaw are Pantanal region encompassing parts of Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay, the Cerrado in interior, and Brazil’s eastern Amazon Basin region. To be more specific, this vast tropical savanna is home to some 800 bird species.

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OCTOBER 9, 2015

Formerly distributed across parts of southeastern Brazil from the state of Bahia to Rio de Janeiro, this Brazilian endemic suffered dramatic declines due to chronic loss of its lowland Atlantic forest habitat. In 2013, Dalcio Dacol and I paid a visit to this reserve as part of an independent, month long birding trip in southeast Brazil.

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MAY 21, 2015

The onset of the competitive spirit came the evening of May 9th as many watched the number of species per country switching places between Colombia, Brazil and Peru. Colombia and Brazil hold the world’s largest bird list and lots of passionate birders. Teams in northern Peru reported Golden-crowned Tanagers.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The 2000 MacKinnon guide is showing its age while my preferred choice for the Shanghai area, Mark Brazil’s “Birds of East Asia”, covers non-Chinese locations such as Japan and Korea while excluding Western China. While there are some decent Chinese-language guides, they are of limited use for (local) illiterates like me.

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MARCH 15, 2021

Whilst Guyana doesn’t boast the number of species of larger countries like Peru, Brazil and Colombia, one needs to consider the size difference between these countries. And Brazil with even fewer species than Peru is nearly 40 times larger than Guyana! Peru, with a few less bird species than Colombia, is 6 times larger than Guyana.

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JUNE 27, 2014

Second, they occupy an astonishing variety of habitats from temperate Araucaria forests in Chile to alpine scree in New Zealand to seasonally flooded rainforests in Brazil to rocky sea cliffs in Australia. Brazil, in particular, is the country with the largest number of parrot species in the world with approximately 84 species.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2014

Birds Brazil Itatiaia National Park tanagers' If I just give the names, you can fill in the descriptions for yourselves. Black-goggled Tanager. Magpie Tanager. Green-olive Tanager. Palm Tanager. Who ever thought that tanagers could be tricky?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2013

But I figured I could wait until Saturday morning when I had agreed to squire His Eminence, Jeff Gordon, American Birding Association President, around during his nearly-all-day-layover before he disappeared to Brazil. Though Jeff is off to Brazil I am sure that nothing he sees there will match the cicada experience.

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JUNE 29, 2023

Brazil posed an enormous challenge logistically, so Arjan decided to include in the itinerary only the southeastern corner of the Amazon rainforest near Alta Floresta, a brief visit to the Pantanal, and to concentrate on the southern part of the Atlantic rainforest, where most of the endemic species occur.

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APRIL 24, 2024

After enjoying dawn on the Rupununi we headed to the remote village of Karasabai just on the border with Brazil to search for these spectacularly vivid parakeets within a few shallow valleys. Another species we had on our target list was the Endangered Sun Parakeet. Other than the two hummingbirds, it was exceptionally quiet.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

This is a bird that flew over 3,400 miles in one flight from Brazil to South Carolina, an amazing bird that is representative of every other Whimbrel. And though the satellite transmitter let Machi be tracked it did not protect it from the hunters’ guns.

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APRIL 25, 2019

8%: Brazil, Panama. Yet, the fact that tiny Panama is as popular as huge Brazil, with twice as many bird species, speaks volume for Brazil’s stage of ecotourism development. A lot more needs to be done to protect and sustainably utilise that biodiversity, although with the Brazil’s current president, it seems highly unlikely.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2011

Want to help save the Cerrado, the amazing savannah of Brazil, from destruction do to conversion to soya production? Hey, British readers! The WWF has some easy steps you can take, as well as an educational hand-shadow film that is well worth watching, on their website. Check it out and help save an extremely endangered ecosystem.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The Sooty Grassquit has an interesting distribution, being most commonly found along the southeastern coast of Brazil. This species is not common in low-lying grassy fields typical of grassquits, but tends to gravitate toward more wooded areas, feeding on grass seeds in clearings and forest edge habitat. Sooty Grassquit , female.

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JULY 6, 2021

Such is the story of his visit to Senhor Jonas D’Abronzo, whose home, at the end of that long, muddy, undulating track outside Ubatuba, Brazil, is also home to the Festive Coquette, a near-threatened species with a limited range along the southeast coast of Brazil.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2014

I am lucky enough to visit the Atlantic Forests of south-eastern Brazil from time to time and an encounter with one of these flocks always leaves me twisted. Birds Black-goggled Tanager Brazil' Collectively these birds revel in the name, Funariidae.

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MAY 30, 2014

However, even within Brazil, very few people are aware of Brazil’s Cerrado: a biome of expansive grasslands dotted with termite mounds, lightly wooded savannas, and ribbons of gallery forest along permanent sources of water.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2021

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JUNE 5, 2013

The new birds inhabit the southern portion of the Amazon, some only in Brazil but others in Bolivia and Peru as well. The ornithologists considered plumage, voice, and genetics in making their determinations; birds had to differ from known species in in at least two of those qualities to be considered new. Of the bunch, 14 are passerines.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Share Your Thoughts « Mallard Ducklings: Manky and Not Review: Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil – The Pantanal & Cerrado of Central Brazil » To learn more about 10,000 Birds, Mike, Corey, or the many marvelous Beat Writers, please click here. Save that for the duck butts.If Thanks for visiting!

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MARCH 27, 2024

We were on the road to the village of Karasabai, the other road went on directly to Brazil. Very grainy, but most of those grains are stars! While still in the pre-dawn, we paused at a junction to stretch our legs a bit. To our backs, the sky was getting marginally brighter. I was surprised at how gently the sun rose.

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DECEMBER 30, 2017

Masked Water-tyrant (Sao Paulo, Brazil). Plain Parakeet (Sao Paulo, Brazil). Checkered Woodpecker (Buenos Aires). Great Coucal (Accra, Ghana). Greater Leafbird (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia). Red Wattled Lapwing (New Delhi, India). Crested Puffin (California, USA). Yellow-billed Shrike (Accra, Ghana). Happy New Year.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2011

As his passion for birding grew he decided to travel Latin America; he has spent time in Mexico, Guatemala, Venezuela and a great deal of time in Brazil. One of his most memorable birding experiences was the six months spent in Northeast Brazil performing research on a new species of bird called the Araripe Manakin.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2013

Wouldn’t you love to watch the sun go down at Cristalino Jungle Lodge in Brazil? Weekends come and weekends go. Don’t let this one pass without doing something special for yourself (or someone else). My weekend will be more for others as I work through a very busy time, but I’m sure I’ll enjoy it.

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AUGUST 1, 2013

Once on the east side of the Andes, they will continue south to southern Brazil arriving in the Pantanal area where they mingle with the resident population of Swallow-tailed Kites there. At some point in western Colombia the kites will fly over the Andes at a point where the Andes are not as high.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Zone-tailed Hawks breed in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, but they winter from Mexico to Brazil. Then they drop out of the flock, and pounce. At which point, if you are a small creature, you are dead. Until recently, I had never seen a Zone-tailed Hawk in Morelia.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Being a very restricted-range species ( found only locally in NE Ecuador along the Rio Napo and its tributaries but with possible sightings in neighbouring Brazil and Colombia) and low-denstiy (confined to black-water drainages) its habits poorly known. Finally the species was complete.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2014

The Pantanal is a vast, seasonally flooded wetland — the largest in the world — in the southwest corner of the state of Mato Grosso in Brazil. My last sunset in the Pantanal was spent admiring a pair of Hyacinth Macaw , the largest parrot in the Western Hemisphere and one of Brazil’s great conservation success stories.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2012

Although 99% is privately owned, the Pantanal (swamp in Spanish) was my favorite place in Brazil. Although there are no endemic birds in this area of Brazil, there are soooo many birds (650 residents) and lots of them are restricted range birds.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2011

Share Your Thoughts « White-faced Ibis at Colusa National Wildlife Refuge Giveaway of the Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil: The Pantanal & Cerrado of Central Brazil » To learn more about 10,000 Birds, Mike, Corey, or the many marvelous Beat Writers, please click here. Thanks for visiting!

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 16, 2013

My first set of clients arrive in just a few days… to be continued… Birding Amazon Brazil cristalino'

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