SAFARI BRAZIL: THE PANTANAL & MOREThe spectacular wetlands of the Pantanal, with Hyacinth Macaws and Jabirus, combined with the many specialties of Brazil's Planalto Central (including Emas National Park, Cipo, and Caraça), make the perfect first birding trip to Brazil.
$5175 (2008 fee not including internal flights). 17 days See our triplist for 2006 or 2005 or 2004.
Central Brazil is a melting pot of habitats and avifaunas—with some unique spectacles unsurpassed elsewhere. It’s hard to equal the sheer excitement of watching a flock of deep-blue Hyacinth Macaws, the world’s largest parrot, circling over the wilds of Mato Grosso...or the amazing concentrations and interactions of wildlife—from cormorants, storks, raptors, and herons to fish, foxes, Capybaras, and caiman—in the Pantanal, the world’s largest freshwater wetland. And what of the seemingly boundless stretches of hip-high grassland dotted with the world’s highest density of terrestrial termitaria—and hence of Giant Anteaters? At Emas National Park on the Planalto Central, these huge anteaters with the funnel-shaped snouts wander among foraging Greater Rheas and herds of Pampas Deer while male Cock-tailed Tyrants—the most sprightly of all flycatchers—hover in courtship over the grass like toy helicopters, bizarre tails cocked vertically over their backs. We usually see around twenty species of mammals (including the rare Maned Wolf) on the tour, and photographic opportunities abound. The itinerary also includes several parks rarely visited by other organized birding tours and harboring such rarities and specialties as Lesser Nothura, Bare-faced Curassow, White-winged and Long-trained nightjars, Horned Sungem, Hyacinth Visorbearer, Cipo Canastero, Large-tailed Antshrike, Serra Antwren, Gray-backed Tachuri, Sharp-tailed Grass-Tyrant, Helmeted Manakin, Gray-eyed Greenlet, White-striped Warbler, Yellow-billed Blue Finch, Pale-throated Serra-Finch, Cinereous Warbling-Finch, and a host of rare and brightly colored seedeaters.
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