Birding near Salesopolis

Continuing the guided tour with Carlos Henrique, shop now near Salesopolis.

Brazil has many species of herons. Both the whistling heron (fluitreiger) and the cocoi heron (sokoireiger) were new to me. Both birds were pretty far away, generic there a picture from the whistling heron as it arrived.

After the big herons our next stop was for smaller birds again. Fir the white-barred piculet (zebradwergspecht), a small woodpecker species. This bird is only 10 cm long, very short for a woodpecker.

Somewhat bigger is the rufous gnateater (rosse muggeneter) with 12cm.

Somewhat bigger again is the golden-crowned warbler (goudhaanzanger), with 14 cm as big as a sparrow. There are very many warbler species, and they are all alike. This one has a golden (red) crest. Hardly visible on this picture, but the bird can make it red if needs to impress other birds.

We also saw a band-tailed or wing-banded hornero (witbandovenvogel), close family of the much more common rufous hornero.

The narrow-billed woodcreeper (wenkbrauwmuisspecht) has remarkably similar colors! It feeds on trees, looking for insects.