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Brazil’s Pantanal: A Birding Spectacle

10,000 Birds

Among birders, wildlife photographers, and nature enthusiasts, it is renowned for its incredible concentrations of birds at the end of the dry season. It is also perhaps the best place in Brazil to see White-fronted Woodpecker , a specialty more typical of the Chaco of Paraguay and Argentina which occurs in small numbers at Pousada Piuval.

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Protecting the Hyacinth Macaw and the Cerrado

10,000 Birds

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. Check out the World Wildlife Fund’s creative campaign to save the Cerrado. I love toucans too, but who knew they ate baby macaws?