Brazil 2005 - #1
Just a few highlights from my VENT Birding Tour to Mato Grosso: Pantanal & Chapada, Amazonian Brazil: Alta Floresta and Manaus Region

   

Packing for 4 weeks UGH!
Love those clouds
Early arrivals in São Paulo
The sky in São Paulo
Churrascaria pig-out in Cuiabá
On the way to Pixaím, we did a little roadside birding
Yes, it is a bird.
Air conditioning gone bad - MUST fix
Just a nice sign to show you where I was.
Early AM recording and birding at our Hotel Fazenda Santa Tereza
View from my room
Into the jungle we go
Ribbon-like vines
Jabirus come callin'
Not an acacia
A typical activity — waiting on those birds
Now what are we going to do?
The bridge is out (known as bad bridge)
Walking the plank (waiting below are the caiman and piranha)
Repair still in progress
Permanent bridge repair team
This is a known as a VERY good bridge
The hump is the best meat served at a Churrascaria
Birding at Reserva Ecological Jaguar
More road birding
Abandoned research facility
Orchid
Vermillion Flycatcher
Brilliant Scarlet-headed Blackbird
Porch birding - too hot to be in the sun
Pixaím river
Boat birding on the Pixaím
Caiman waiting for dinner - one of us
Walking Stick
Can you see a trail?
Tough birding
Yvonne, Deb, and Sherri - girls gotta have fun