BRAZIL photos – September 2017 | CROSSING CULTURES, FINDING FREEDOM

We visited Brazil with Jane and Charlie in September 2017. We spent a week on the Amazon and a week in the Pantanal.

Below is just a SAMPLE of my Brazil photographs. If you want to see ALL the wildlife photos I took in Brazil, go to my Flickr account by clicking on BIRDS and ANIMALS.

THE AMAZON

: Leaving Sao Paulo

: Views from aeroplane when flying

: north to Manaus and Amazon Forest

: Tropical Hotel were we stayed before and after the boat trip

: Map of our 5 night travels in the Amazon Frorest

: White-eyed Parakeets

: White-eyed Parakeet

: Lesser Kiskadee

: Yellow-browed Sparrow

: Crested Oropendola

: Blue-grey Tanager, Brazil

: Dragonfly

: White-winged Parakeet

: Yellow-rumped Cacique

: Amazonian home on the banks of the Solimoes, an Amazon tributary

: Moving home in the Amazon

: We went out for early morning and night trips along tributaries

: Boat-billed Heron

: Spectacled Caiman

: Three-toed Sloth (male)

: Common Potoo

: Capped Heron

: Snowy Egret

: Snowy Egrets

: Pink River Dolphins

: There were 10 of us and 4 crew on the Amazon Clipper

: We had delicious meals on the boat

: Owl Butterfly (Caligo brasiliensis) has a 6″ wingspan

: This White Witch Moth has a 10″ wingspan!

: Hoatzin

: A parade of Black-bellied Whistling Ducks

: Yellow-ridged Toucan

: Indigenous people on the Rio Negro

: On the Rio Negro

: Black-collared Hawk

: Snail Kite

: Immature Snail Kite

: Common Squirrel Monkeys

: Common Squirrel Monkey

: Amazon basin

: Meeting of the Waters where the Rio Negro & Solimoes join

: Meeting of the Waters to form the Amazon

: Our ‘hotel’ boat

: Floating homes in the Amazon basin

: Processing cassava ‘flour’

THE PANTANAL

: We flew in a small plane from Manaus to Barra Mansa Farm

: Approaching Barra Mansa over another Rio Negro

: Barra Mansa Farm

: We had many boat trips, looking for birds and animals

: Rio Negro – different from the Rio Negro in the Amazon basin

: Capybara

: Tapir

: Neotropical Otter

: Grey-necked Wood Rail

: Green Kingfisher

: Rufescent Tiger Heron

: Chestnut-eared Aracari

: Hyacinth Macaws, Brazil

: Hyacinth Macaw

: Hyacinth Macaw, Brazil

: Hyacinth Macaw, Brazil

: Hyacinth Macaws, Brazil

: Toco Toucan

: Rufous-tailed Jacamar

: Plush-crested Jay, Brazil

: Burrowing Owl

: Chaca Chachalaca

: Common Piping (aka Blue-throated) Guan

: Gilded Hummingbird (Sapphire)

: Going for an early morning walk

: Blue-crowned Trogon (female)

: Pieridae species of butterflies

: Southern (Crested) Caracara

: White-lipped Peccary

: Brocket Deer

: Crab-eating Fox

: Pantanal Caiman

: White-lipped Peccary with baby suckling

: Great Potoo

: Pauraque Nightjar

: Jabiru

: Whistling Heron

: Great Kiskadee

: Golden-collared Macaws, Brazil

: Picnic at sunset in the Pantanal

: Red-and-green Macaw, Brazil

: Xavier and Manoela

: Roseate Spoonbills

: Buff-necked Ibis

: Bare-faced Ibises

: Monk Parakeet

: Peach-fronted Parakeet

: Wattled Jacana

: Bare-faced Currasow (female)

: Bare-faced Currasow (male)

: 2 Brazilian Teal (front) + 3 White-faced Whistling Ducks

: Rio Negro

: Flying back over the Rio Negro

To see ALL the wildlife photos I took in Brazil, go to my Flickr account by clicking on BIRDS and ANIMALS.

THE AMAZON

THE PANTANAL

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