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| Coming into Alta Floresta airport | |
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| Point-tailed Palmcreeper in there somewhere... | there it is - hanging upside down |
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| Sulphury Flycatcher | Plain Tyrannulet |
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| Leaving the launch area. Saw new birds here as well. | On the Teles Pires River |
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| White-winged Swallows | Rio Cristalino lodge dock |
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| There was a dying tree causing troubles with the dock, so the maintenance crew roped off the area and took it down. | Interconnecting trails |
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| Lodge and restaurant | Lounge area and gift shop |
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| Very nice rooms and beautiful surroundings. | The first
evening, our leader lured in a Crested Owl(!) and took this pic through his scope. |
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| Red-throated Piping-Guan | Ringed Woodpecker |
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| White-nosed Bearded Saki Monkey | |
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| Green-backed Trogon | Yellow-throated Woodpecker |
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| Dusky-cheeked Foliage-Gleaner | Oscillated Poorwill |
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| Our leaders, in front of a brazil nut tree on the brazil nut trail | Several of the trails required a boat ride to the trailhead |
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| The next day, Tower #1 | Just some tree roots |
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| Scarlet Macaws | White-browed Hawk |
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| Red-billed Pied Tanagers | Spangled Cotinga |
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| Slender-footed Tyrannulet | Black-faced Dacnis |
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| Blue Dacnis | Crowned Slaty Flycatcher |
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| Tropical Kingbird | White-eyed Parakeet |
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| Black-bellied Cuckoo | Tooth-billed Wren |
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| Black-gilded Barbet | Brown-banded Puffbird |
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| Yellow-shouldered Grosbeak | Blue and yellow Macaws |
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| Variegated Flycatcher | Paradise Tanager |
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| Turquoise Tanager | Yellow-backed Tanager |
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| Red-necked Woodpecker | Golden-winged Parakeet |
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| As far as the eye can see... | |
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| A surprise after we came down from the tower. Some Cristalino lodge guides alerted us that just down the trail were Dark-winged Trumpeters !! | |
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| Sunbittern | |
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| Ladder-tailed Nightjar | Butterflies |
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| Black Hawk-Eagle | Pale-vented Pigeon |
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| Cattle Egret (hundreds) | Rio Cristalino |
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| Blue-headed Parrot | Bay-headed Tanager |
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| Morning view from Granite Peak | Rufous-bellied Euphonia |
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| White-browed Purpletuft | |
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| Paradise Jacamar | Fiery-tailed Awlbill (check the curve on the tip of the beak) |
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| White-necked Puffbird | |
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| Sibilant Sirystes | Blackish Nightjars |
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| Blue-crowned Trogon | Greater Yellow-headed Vulture |
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| Santarem Parakeets | Dusky-billed Parrotlet |
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| Brown Capuchin | Spider Monkey |
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| Hoatzin | |
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| Green Kingfisher | Marcelo B and Marcelo P and the boat crew |
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| Razor-billed Curassow | Bare-necked Fruitcrow |
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| White-bellied Parrot | Red-necked Aracari |
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| Red-throated Caracara | |
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| Red-throated Caracara | |
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| Red-fan Parrots (two are preening each other while one watches - birds don't have envy) | Flame-crested Tanager |
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| Masked Tityra |
Banded Antbird - must be quiet and patient All about Antbirds |
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| Royal Flycatcher nest | Yellow-bellied Dacnis (high in a tree along the river) |
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| Caiman food - they're alert and fast | Long-nose Bats |
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| Tower #2 - across the river | Looking up. It's nice at the top. |
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| Ruddy-tailed Flycatcher | Striped Woodcreeper |
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talks about the insects in the jungle, but they really weren't that bad.
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We soaked all of our socks, pants, shirts and sprayed our shoes (follow the cautions and directions exactly - see youtube.com). We did not get one bite - and Mo usually gets eaten. I was even on ground and in the leaves several times... NO bites! |
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| Gray-breasted Martin | Bat Falcon |
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| Amazonian Umbrella Bird (Cotinga Family) | This is why they called it Umbrella Bird |
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| Spider Monkeys - mom with little one | |
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| Anhinga | Quiet intensity |
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| Sunsets along the river | |
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| After 6 nights, time to pack up and move to Alta Floresta | |
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| Floresta Amazonica Hotel | |
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| Capped Heron nest in front of the Hotel | Short-tailed Hawk |
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| Nunbirds making whoopie | Flutterby |
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| Lineated Woodpecker | Cinnamon-throated Woodcreeper |
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| Chestnut-eared Aracari | Lettered Aracari |
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| Donacobius | Bare-necked Fruitcrow |
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| Bougainvillea | Swallow-tailed Kite |
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| Turquoise-fronted Parrot | Crested Oropendola |
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| White-throated Toucan | Crimson-bellied Parakeet |
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| Red and Green Macaw | |
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| Plumbeous Kite |
Don't know what this one is called, but it's the same type of frog that pops up in toilets during the night in Costa Rica as well. It leaves as secretly as it appears. |
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| After birding the morning in the very productive forest associated with the Alta Floresta hotel, we hopped back on Azul Airlines and flew back to Cuiabá | |
| ...and on to the next and final leg of the trip - the Transpantaneira into... The PANTANAL wetlands | |
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Parte UM - |
The CERRADO |
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Parte DIOS - |
The AMAZON |
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Parte TRĘS - |
The PANTANAL |