What’s your favourite fowl species?
My favourite fowl in Brazil is the Lear’s Macaw from North Bahia state.
What’s your identify, and the place do you reside?
My identify is René Santos, I’m from Sao Paulo, Brazil.
What are the principle areas or areas you cowl as a fowl information?
I information largely within the Atlantic Rainforest of SE Brazil, however I additionally do a number of Pantanal, S Amazon, and Caatinga on the NE. Typically even Costa Rica.
Black-backed Tanager. Endemic to the Atlantic Rainforest (Image by Marco Guedes)
How lengthy have you ever been a fowl information?
I’m a biologist and I began guiding birdwatchers in 2006 at Ubatuba.
How did you get into fowl guiding?
I used to work with birds below human care. Then I joined conservation initiatives of endangered parrots and all began as quickly as I noticed them flying free!
Pink-breasted Toucan of SE Atlantic Forest
What are the points of being a fowl information that you simply like greatest? Which points do you dislike most?
The very best a part of being a birding information is to at all times be near nature and see the good biodiversity of Brazil up shut. I get homesick after 2 to three weeks away on excursions.
What are the highest 5-10 birds in your area that you simply suppose are probably the most attention-grabbing for visiting birders?
Among the greatest birds in Brazil are the Hyacinth and Lear’s Macaws. The almighty Harpy Eagle is at all times a goal for everybody! The astonishing Pompadour and Banded Cotingas. The distinctive Swallow-tailed Cotinga is considered one of my favourite birds of the SE Atlantic Rainforest. On the NE of Brazil, the uncommon Araripe Manakin is kind of one thing! The endemic Black-backed Tanager is to me probably the most attention-grabbing Tanager of Brazil.
Araripe Manakin. Critically Endangered from NE Brazil. (Image by Antonio Nobre)
Are you able to define not less than one typical birdwatching journey in your space? Please briefly describe the areas, the important thing birds, and the approximate period of such a visit.
One among my favourite Birding journeys is within the SE Atlantic Rainforest. The forest is superb and there are round 600 species to search for! The logistics are the simplest, the accommodations are glorious and the meals is superior. One week to 10 days visiting:
1) Intervales State Park for Blue-bellied Parrots, Black-fronted Piping-guan, Swallow-tailed Cotingas, Atlantic Royal Flycatchers, Black-legged Dacnis, Pink-ruffed Fruitcrows and plenty of others…
2) Trilha dos Tucanos for Saffron Toucanets, Pink-breasted Toucans, Azure-shouldered, Golden-chevroned, and Inexperienced-headed Tanagers…
3) Cananéia on the coast for the beautiful Scarlet Ibis and in addition Black-headed Berryeater, Black-backed Tanager, Azure Jay, and Noticed-billed Hermit..
There are a number of different nice hotspots with fowl feeders like Ubatuba, Itatiaia Nationwide Park, and Guapiaçu Ecological Reserve in Rio de Janeiro state.
Saffron Toucanet is likely one of the most wished targets in SE Brazil
What different ideas are you able to give to birders desirous about your space?
Pantanal is likely one of the most busy locations to fowl in Brazil. Other than heaps and many birds so that you can search for (just like the Hyacinth Macaw) there’s loads of wildlife round like anteaters, tapirs, big otters, anacondas, and naturally the almighty jaguar! There are a number of different biomes stuffed with unique birds like Amazon, Caatinga, and Cerrado.
Hyacinth Macaw
If any reader of 10,000 Birds is desirous about birding with you, how can they greatest contact you?
One of the simplest ways to search out me is to seek for Calyptura Expeditions on-line. That’s my freelancing skilled identify. My electronic mail is renearara@gmail.com.
Is there anything you want to share with the readers of 10,000 Birds?
Bear in mind fowl buddies that while you go to pure areas for fowl watching you’re creating worth to these areas and thus serving to their conservation! In different phrases, Birding is Conservation!