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They’ve Got an Awful Lot of Birds in Brazil.

10,000 Birds

We got particularly great looks at Guira Cuckoo at Pousada Piuval, a resort that is also a cattle ranch; they were active all day, even after many of the birds that gathered in the early morning dispersed, often whistling loudly from the fence posts. Favorite Woodpecker: This is a toughie. Any suggestions?

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Birds of Pantanal

10,000 Birds

Hundreds-of-thousands of cattle share the swampy fields with the most exotic reptiles, mammals, fish, birds, insects and humans. The contrast between biodiversity and human destruction is in plain sight everywhere you go! It is an eye opener which every birder must see before it its gone.

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