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
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- Leaving Sao Paulo
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- Views from aeroplane when flying
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- north to Manaus and Amazon Forest
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- Tropical Hotel were we stayed before and after the boat trip
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- Map of our 5 night travels in the Amazon Frorest
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- White-eyed Parakeets
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- White-eyed Parakeet
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- Lesser Kiskadee
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- Yellow-browed Sparrow
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- Crested Oropendola
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- Blue-grey Tanager
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- Dragonfly
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- White-winged Parakeet
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- Yellow-rumped Cacique
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- Amazonian home on the banks of the Solimoes, an Amazon tributary
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- Moving home in the Amazon
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- We went out for early morning and night trips along tributaries
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- Boat-billed Heron
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- Spectacled Caiman
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- Three-toed Sloth (male)
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- Common Potoo
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- Capped Heron
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- Snowy Egret
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- Snowy Egrets
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- Pink River Dolphins
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- There were 10 of us and 4 crew on the Amazon Clipper
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- We had delicious meals on the boat
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- Owl Butterfly (Caligo brasiliensis) has a 6″ wingspan
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- This White Witch Moth has a 10″ wingspan!
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- Hoatzin
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- A parade of Black-bellied Whistling Ducks
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- Yellow-ridged Toucan
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- Indigenous people on the Rio Negro
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- On the Rio Negro
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- Black-collared Hawk
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- Snail Kite
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- Immature Snail Kite
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- Common Squirrel Monkeys
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- Common Squirrel Monkey
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- Amazon basin
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- Meeting of the Waters where the Rio Negro & Solimoes join
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- Meeting of the Waters to form the Amazon
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- Our ‘hotel’ boat
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- Floating homes in the Amazon basin
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- Processing cassava ‘flour’
THE PANTANAL
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- We flew in a small plane from Manaus to Barra Mansa Farm
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- Approaching Barra Mansa over another Rio Negro
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- Barra Mansa Farm
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- We had many boat trips, looking for birds and animals
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- Rio Negro – different from the Rio Negro in the Amazon basin
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- Capybara
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- Tapir
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- Neotropical Otter
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- Grey-necked Wood Rail
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- Green Kingfisher
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- Rufescent Tiger Heron
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- Chestnut-eared Aracari
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- Hyacinth Macaws
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- Hyacinth Macaw
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- Hyacinth Macaw
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- Toco Toucan
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- Rufous-tailed Jacamar
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- Plush-crested Jay
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- Burrowing Owl
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- Chaca Chachalaca
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- Common Piping (aka Blue-throated) Guan
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- Gilded Hummingbird (Sapphire)
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- Going for an early morning walk
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- Blue-crowned Trogon (female)
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- Pieridae species of butterflies
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- Southern (Crested) Caracara
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- White-lipped Peccary
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- Brocket Deer
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- Crab-eating Fox
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- Pantanal Caiman
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- White-lipped Peccary with baby suckling
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- Great Potoo
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- Pauraque Nightjar
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- Jabiru
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- Whistling Heron
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- Great Kiskadee
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- Golden-collared Macaws
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- Picnic at sunset in the Pantanal
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- Red-and-green Macaw
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- Xavier and Manoela
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- Roseate Spoonbills
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- Buff-necked Ibis
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- Bare-faced Ibises
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- Monk Parakeet
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- Peach-fronted Parakeet
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- Wattled Jacana
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- Bare-faced Currasow (female)
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- Bare-faced Currasow (male)
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- 2 Brazilian Teal (front) + 3 White-faced Whistling Ducks
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- Rio Negro
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- 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.
