Birding Brazil: Atlantic Rainforest

Our base of operations was the Guapi Assu Bird Lodge on the grounds of the
Reserva Ecologica de Guapi Assu (REGUA), about 2 hours northwest of Rio de Janeiro.
Highly recommended! Great accommodations, great food, great guides, and you will be supporting
a very important conservation project protecting the Mata Atlantica - the endangered Atlantic Rainforest.

 

Everything you see here is part of REGUA. We also took a day trip off the property. And here are some of the sights:

Blue Manakin

Eastern Striped Manakin

One-spotted Prepona (left) and Blue-frosted Banner (right) on the fruit feeders - identified by Fred Yost

Swallow-tailed Hummingbird

Eye-ringed Tody-Tyrant

Yellow-throated and Yellow-eared woodpeckers

Birding at the banana stand

Blue-naped Chlorophonias

Brazilian Tanager

Burnished-buff and Brassy-breasted tanagers

Green-headed Tanager

Maroon-bellied Parakeet

Female and Male Brazilian Rubys

Female Amethyst Woodstar

Guira Cuckoos

Rufous-browed Peppershrike

Rufous-sided Crake in the REGUA wetlands

Short-crested Flycatcher

Tropical Screech-Owls

White-throated Hummingbird and Black Jacobin

White-eared Puffbird

Mushroom garden?

A plant with obvious defenses

Neat spider

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