Black-throated Saltator
Female.
Cinnamon Tanager
Rufous-sided Scrub-Tyrant
Blue-black Grassquit - this area was chock full of grassquits displaying.
White-rumped Tanager - very wet and grumpy.
Cerrado habitat
Grassland Sparrow
Aplomado Falcons
Grassland Yellow-Finch
Pink Powderpuff (Calliandra brevipes)
Aplomado Falcon
Fork-tailed Flycatcher
We packed up from our hotel and said goodbye to Mucuge and its beautiful cemetery.
Our drive this day would be another 5 hours, but of course we had some stops. The track above is what we would have done if we were driving straight there, but our track was actually different. Our first stop was south of Mucuge in Morro Santa Barbara.
White-collared Swift - we ran into a large flock of swifts and most of them were White-collared, but we sifted through them.
White-collared Swift
Biscutate Swift - it was difficult to pick out this one but I went through a ton of pics and found a few. The Biscutate Swift has a collar that does not connect and in fact is staggered with a cork-screw pattern.
Biscutate Swift - even if you don't see the corkscrew shape, the bib of the collar bulges in front.
Pale-throated Pampa-Finch! A Brazilian endemic.
White-eared Puffbird! I had seen these before, but they were super photogenic this time.
Chestnut-capped Blackbird
In a place called Barra do Choça we stopped at a small gallery forrest that was being preserved within a large agricultural area. It is amazing how birds can hang on if we just provide them with a little habitat.
Three-toed Jacamar!! This Brazilian endemic is actually only found in a small area mostly within the state of Bahia.
Gilt-edged Tanager
Yellow-green Grosbeak!
Gilt-edged Tanager
Habitat shot.
Rio de Janeiro Antbird!! Yet another Brazilian endemic. This was the female.
The male..
The rest of the day was spent driving to our hotel in Boa Nova.
More to come soon....
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