This was my first trip to South America, I had visited Costa Rica in 2001 (as well as many trips to the US between 1995-2001), so I had at least a loose grip on the different bird families that awaited. In 2004 there was only one fieldguide to the Brazilian avifauna, made by Deodato Souza, and it wasn't high end quality illustrations, but it was all there was. Needless to say, I had quite a few Mystery Birds during the trip, since we didn't have a local guide, either. It was a budget trip, which suited me fine bcs otherwise I couldn't afford it!
I had no videocam back then, only a newly (in April) purchased Canon 10D, after letting go of my analog camera equipment. So, it's a photographs only video, i e a slideshow, but with birdcalls and some background music.
We start at Pousada Piuval, where we arrived in the afternoon, and started birding the large garden. Birds seen are Blue-crowned Parakeet, Saffron Finch, Rufous Hornero, Chopi Blackbird, Hyacinth Macaw, Grey-breasted Swallow, a very distant Red-legged Seriema and Guira Cuckoo.
The next morning we took a boat ride to get some Pantanal wetland birds, like Scarlet-headed Blackbird, Unicolored Blackbird, Southern Screamer, Jabiru, Large-billed Tern and many others. While checking out we also saw Yellow-chevroned Parakeet, Monk Parakeet and Sayaca Tanager (wrongly called Blue-gray Tanager in the video, see the pinned comment below).
After checkout we drove along the Transpantaneira towards Fazenda Santa Tereza. We saw so much, and I took so many photos, that I had to cut this video short and add that to Part 2.
15 окт 2024
