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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
I have been leading birding trips all over Brazil since 1982. And, with you it will be the same, a wonderful combination of fun and birding by coming to Brazil, once it gets safe to travel again. Here are the reasons: -Brazil is safe to travel.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 20, 2012
My wife and I spent two weeks in Brazil birding the Atlantic Forest and The Pantanal. Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world and also has the fifth place in the countries with the highest population to feed. Brazil exports 25% of the world raw cane and refined sugar, is the world leader in soybean production, and produces 80% of the worlds orange juice market. Destinations Brazil endemics three-toed Jacamar
10,000 Birds
MARCH 12, 2011
home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Most Wanted Birds in Brazil Most Wanted Birds in Brazil By Corey • March 12, 2011 • 5 comments Tweet Share Brazil is an amazing country loaded with a huge number of species of bird that birders the world over desperately want to experience. To see this bird in all its glory in the environs of Brazil would be my bird dream.
Critter News
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 Thanks to animalblog.co.uk for this big story. Brazilian federal police arrested 72 people on Wednesday on suspicion of running an international smuggling ring that traded half a million wild animals, including jaguars and monkeys, each year.
10,000 Birds
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. Carlos Sanchez, who designed, organized, and led our bucket-list trip, warned me, and Carlos knows Brazil. Trips Brazil cristalino Pantanal
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 7, 2012
Now he’s moved to Brazil , which means we get to vicariously explore the avifauna of another bird-rich country. Derek Kverno has already created epic blog travelogues of his stints in Ecuador and Tanzania. Awesome! Asides
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 28, 2011
And it looks even better in my hands while I dream about a visit to regions of Brazil I had scarcely heard of before being provided with a review copy of the first volume of the Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil.* The conservation need is urgent: great attention has rightly been paid to Brazil’s Amazonian rainforest but not enough resources have gone to the Pantanal and the Cerrado, of which only 4% and 5%, respectively, are protected.
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. 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.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 12, 2011
home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / competitions / Winner of the Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil Giveaway Winner of the Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil Giveaway By Corey • March 12, 2011 • No comments yet Tweet Share There were many excellent entries in the Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil: The Pantanal & Cerrado of Central Brazil giveaway.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 2, 2011
home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / competitions / Giveaway of the Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil: The Pantanal & Cerrado of Central Brazil Giveaway of the Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil: The Pantanal & Cerrado of Central Brazil By Corey • March 3, 2011 • 7 comments Tweet Share Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it is that time again!
10,000 Birds
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. After guiding at Cristalino Lodge, I had the good fortune to travel throughout southeast Brazil with Dalcio Dacol. Many people have heard of the immense Amazon Rainforest with its astonishing biodiversity.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 7, 2011
home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Asides / Don’t Forget the Birds of Brazil Giveaway Don’t Forget the Birds of Brazil Giveaway By Corey • March 7, 2011 • No comments yet Tweet Share You only have until Thursday to enter the Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil giveaway.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 13, 2020
Brazil 1847 sp. 3. Peru (Manu Biosphere Reserve with 1000 species – the richest region for birds in the world), Brazil (Pantanal, the world’s largest wetland with 650 bird species, and the Atlantic forests), and Ecuador are already well established bird tour destinations.
10,000 Birds
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. Trips Africa Australia Brazil Colombia Costa Rica Ecuador New Guinea Panama Peru world birdwatch
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 28, 2019
Birding Brazil Toco Toucan“What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.”
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 11, 2014
About half way between Brazil’s Sao Paulo and Rio de Janiero, lies a mountain valley containing the Itatiaia National Park. Birds Brazil Itatiaia National Park tanagers The endemic-rich Mata Atlantica, or Atlantic Forest is a habitat type found close to the coast in the south-eastern states of the huge country. Chestnut-bellied Euphonia (not actually a tanager, but gorgeous just the same).
10,000 Birds
MAY 25, 2016
For now, though, score one in the positive side of the ledger as a long-lost species—the Blue-eyed Ground Dove —has been rediscovered in Brazil. News Blue-eyed Ground Dove Brazil Conservation Cornell Lab of Ornithology Global Big Day North American Bird Conservation InitiativeThis past week in birding news was nothing if not exciting. Almost 16,000 birders, participating in the second annual Global Big Day on May 14th, ticked some 6,284 species worldwide.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 17, 2017
Fast forward 8 years and I found myself in Brazil. Red-legged Seriema, Cariama cristata , can be seen in Brazil and Uruguay and overlap with the Black-legged Seriema in Northern Argentina and Paraguay. Birding Brazil Red-legged Seriema REGUA Rio de JanieroThe first time I saw a Red-legged Seriema , I had no idea what it was. What family is it from? Where does it come from? How do I get to see one in the wild? I didn’t even know where to start.
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 In the forests of South America, a birder is likely to cross the path of a feeding flock of brown birds represented by Woodcreepers, Spinetails, Foliage-gleaners and Xenops. Collectively these birds revel in the name, Funariidae.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 27, 2018
Birding Brazil Gray-headed KiteWe join proceedings a little way in as it took a few moments to find a good vantage point and find an acceptable camera exposure level. Thankfully, we have already passed the bit where I humiliate myself in front of 22 Brazilian soccer players by tripping on my laces when trying to kick back their stray football. I first noticed the bird as it flew up from the ground and into the tree.
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. As much as 21% of Brazil is covered by the little-known but precious savanna, yet the Cerrado is disappearing faster than the Amazon rainforest (and you know that’s fast!) Birds brazil Conservation macaws parrotsWho doesn’t love a macaw?
10,000 Birds
MAY 19, 2018
An owl a day…… Birding Brazil burrowing owlsThis post is going live slightly late today to avoid stealing Harry and Megan’s thunder. Hope you enjoyed the wedding. You’ll be pleased to know that Lady Helen’s hat stayed on, but the shoes don’t usually last beyond the canapes. All our best wishes to the happy couple. How do little old ladies get so much heavy hand baggage onto an aeroplane? Still, there are worse places to be laid up with a bad back.
10,000 Birds
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. … Destinations Brazil features Pantanal
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 16, 2013
My first set of clients arrive in just a few days… to be continued… Birding Amazon Brazil cristalino After over a year of planning and preparation (and after a quick trip to the Pantanal and Chapada dos Guimaraes), I finally arrived at Cristalino Jungle Lodge on the afternoon of August 1st, 2013 to begin my nearly three month long guiding experience here.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 21, 2014
Birding Amazon Brazil cristalino rainforest Few people can imagine (or even take seriously) the life of a birding guide at a lodge in the tropics, so I thought it would be a nice exercise to outline what an average day for me was like at Cristalino Lodge. I will not detail any negative preconceived notions of the life of a birding guide — rather just the day in and day out activities that make being a bird guide both a rewarding and demanding profession at the same time.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 24, 2012
I ran across a couple of Southern Lapwings in Ibirapuera Park in Sao Paulo, Brazil recently and watched as they indulged in typical Vanellus behaviour. Birds Brazil Southern LapwingPrimarily, Lapwings are an Old World family with over 20 species including Australasia’s Masked Lapwing , Asia’s Yellow-wattled Lapwing and the Red-wattled Lapwing of the Middle East.
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
A man was arrested at the airport in Sao Paulo, Brazil after 200 canaries were found in his suitcase. Sixty of them were dead from suffocation and thirst. How horrible.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 10, 2011
home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Asides / Last Chance to Enter Last Chance to Enter By Corey • March 10, 2011 • No comments yet Tweet Share You only have until midnight tonight to enter the Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil giveaway.
10,000 Birds
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.
Co.Create
DECEMBER 30, 2017
Masked Water-tyrant (Sao Paulo, Brazil). Plain Parakeet (Sao Paulo, Brazil). The week between Christmas and New Year is always a good time to reflect on the year that just was. Amongst the highlights that featured in published posts, we find the drafts that never quite got finished, or didn’t have enough photographic support to appear on the world wide web. The left-overs. Black-crested Bulbul (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia).
Animal Person
JULY 2, 2009
The results will be first presented and discussed at the 12th International Vegan Festival, to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 22-25, 2009 (more about it here ). A new survey is getting the attention of many within the global animal protection community. Covering both moral and strategic issues, the "Ethics and Animals" survey will provide a snapshot of our movement as of the present moment. Everyone is invited to participate and share their views on what's best for animals.
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. Asides
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 26, 2019
He goes to BRAZIL! Birding Brazil Iguazu FallsSo we had a referendum. It was a simple “Yes” or “No.” ” That’s were the trouble started. The electorate, unsure of what “Yes” actually meant, returned a non-commital, “Uh-huh.” ” The term, “Brexit” was coined and we are all now sick to the back teeth of it.
10,000 Birds
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!
10,000 Birds
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.
10,000 Birds
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.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 1, 2021
Brazil. We here at 10,000 Birds dedicated the month of February to highlighting a variety of birding tourism companies, destinations, and guides. We did this to help our favorite industry come back, to some small degree, from the ravages of COVID.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 18, 2022
This species has also established a presence in South America (Brazil) and Iberia. Apparently, Mauritius has one of the lowest tax rates in the world. Offshore businesses located in Mauritius that do not do business with Mauritians nor use Mauritian currency are exempt from Mauritian taxes.
4 The Love Of Animals
OCTOBER 6, 2009
They carry USA, Germany, Brazil, England, France, Italy and more. Love soccer? Does your dog love it too? If so, then Little Fanaticos is the site for you! Just look at how adorable the soccer jersey for dogs looks on Baby the Maltese! This is such a fun item, very unique and something that looks great as well. It is very well made, and fit her perfectly. It’s sometimes hard to find clothes for dogs that fit just right, but the soccer dog jersey could not have fit better.
4 The Love Of Animals
SEPTEMBER 13, 2011
And on the banks of the Amazon in Brazil, a tamarin expert works to save the tiny primates, which are struggling to survive as bulldozers wipe out their forest homes to make way for new development. A wonderful new series on Nat Geo WILD this Tuesday, September 13th and Wednesday, September 14. Nat Geo WILD takes viewers around the world to follow dedicated people working to save Nature’s Miracle Babies – often the last hope for critically vulnerable species.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 16, 2021
could be a separate and isolated population of the Chestnut-backed Antshrike (which lives more than a thousand kilometres away on the south bank of the Amazon in Brazil), as was initially thought, could also be a separate subspecies of it, but it is most likely to be a new species.
10,000 Birds
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. Cusco Birders. in-country Champions. Photo: Nestor Ccacya Baca. Ebird has hit something big.
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. Yeah, I realize how unlikely that is but those of us not going to Brazil have to rationalize somehow, right?).
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