Our first full day at the Pousada was spent the same way as the previous afternoon, we toured the property with the Beast looking for some of the specialty birds. In the morning we tried to eat breakfast while being distracted by the feeders.
Plush-crested Jay - I suspect it would take a while of seeing this species before taking it for granted.
Yellow-billed Cardinal
Pale-breasted Thrush
Guira Cuckoos!! This species is social and roosted in the tree where we loaded the Beast in the mornings. They puffed up their rump feathers to catch the morning sun kind of like how the Greater Roadrunner does in the US.
Great Black Hawk
Capybara - pretty darn cute for a rodent.
White-rumped Monjita - our luck with two of the three regular species continued but the third eluded us.
Yellowish Pipit - we only saw a couple of these the whole trip but I suspect they are more comment and we just overlooked them.
Green-barred Woodpecker - we only saw a couple of these the whole trip.
Little Woodpecker - we ended up seeing these a number of times throughout the trip.
Rufous-browed Peppershrike - this was much better looks than I had in the Yucatan.
White-lined Tanager
Pearly-vented Tody-tyrant - I immediately recognized this little guy from my trip to Colombia.
Aplomado Falcon - much nicer looks than I have had previously Texas and Colombia.
Pampas Deer
Grassland Sparrow
Rusty-collared Seedeater - this and the other seedeaters were moved taxonomically from Emberzidae (sparrows) into the Family Thraupidae (tanagers) as part of a big re-org. Interesting because they behave more like sparrows but I guess from a DNA perspective they are closer to Tanagers.
Bearded Tachuri - this small flycatcher one of those species we only saw once and for a very brief moment that was also consumed by overwhelming call-outs of multiple species. Thus I only have one picture and its not great. The Wiki page on this species is only a couple sentences. Someone needs to go out and study it more.
Black-throated Saltator - this bird caused quite a stir right during the Tachuri sighting but in hindsight we saw more later and I wished I had spent more time on the Tachuri. This is where doing your homework ahead of time can come in handy. If you know what you are likely to get more than once and you have several new species being called out at the same time, you can focus on the more unlikely one.
Rusty-backed Antwren - yet another one that caused quite a stir but we ended up seeing more later. This one is the female.
Here is the male.
Long-tailed Ground Dove - note to others going to Brazil, this species is hard to get good looks at so get em while you can.
They have an interesting gray forehead which makes this distinguishable even when looking at one head on.
Scaled Doves on the other hand are relatively easy to find and look pretty similar to our Inca Dove.
Burrowing Owl - nothing too special about this one but who (pardon the pun) can pass up an owl picture?
Peach-fronted Parakeet - it started to get easier over time to quickly narrow down species into groupings based on morphology. Parakeets have longer tails and are generally smaller than Parrots and Macaws. Macaws have white facial skin around the eyes and beak. Parrots are shorter tailed and chunkier than Parakeets.
White Monjita
Southern Beardless-Tyrannulet - easy to ID based on the complete lack of a beard. I am kidding kind of. According to one of the Audubon websites, "The name 'Beardless' reflects the lack of bristles around the base of the bill (present in most of our flycatchers)." However, I am not sure that helps with ID and we normally don't get that close to be able to see bristles.
Barred Antshrike
Narrow-billed Woodcreeper
Turquoise-fronted Parrots in what may be a nesting cavity.
Saffron Finch
Gray-breasted Martin ventral view
and dorsal.
Yellow-collared Macaw! The little Macaws are super cute. This one doesn't have a huge range so I was glad to pick it up.
Savannah Hawk
Rufous-fronted Thornbird
Great Rufous Woodcreeper - this is a really big woodcreeper!
Another Savannah
Back at the Pousada for lunch we were always greeted by the boisterous Hyacinth Macaws. Next post will be devoted to an early afternoon solo walk around the immediate property and then a group boat trip on the adjacent river.
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