BRAZIL PART THREE-

PART 3 Continuing the journey around  Brazil searching for birds butterflies and animals.

 GREEN KINGFISHER

 SPOTTED RAIL

 GREYISH SALTATOR

 CAPPED HERON

 CAPPED HERON

 BLACK COLLARED HAWK

 BLACK COLLARED HAWK

 GREEN KINGFISHER female

 BLACK BACKED WATER TYRANT

 BLACK COLLARED HAWK

 GREAT RHEA WITH 19 CHICKS.

 CHESTNUT EARED ARACARIS  were back for more fruit.

 SCALED DOVE

 When we saw the BRAZILIAN TAPIR in the gloom last evening, little did we know that next morning we would find him browsing by the road.

 SCARLET HEADED BLACKBIRD

 YELLOW BILLED TERN

 RUFOUS TAILED JACAMAR

 AMAZON KINGFISHER female

 GREAT HORNED OWL

 SNAIL KITE

GREAT ANTSHRIKE

 SOUTHERN SCREAMERS.

Today is the big day a boat trip up the Cuiaba River in search of Giant Otter and Jaguar.
We soon came across the Otters:- not pretty but very inquisitive

 BLACK SKIMMER-They feed by trailing the lower bill along the surface of the water and if they feel a fish scoop it up.

 LARGE BILLED TERN

 JAGUAR AT HIS TOILET

 Poor old boy has had his left ear chewed-here`s his missus ???

 BLACK FRONTED NUNBIRD

BEARDED CAPUCHIN

 GOLDEN CROWNED WARBLER

 ANOTHER FEMALE JAGUAR

 PYGMY KINGFISHER

 SAVANNA HAWK

 LESSER YELLOW HEADED VULTURE

 ANHINGA with PARANA

 COCOI HERON

 ANHINGA

 BRAN COLOURED FLYCATCHER

 ORANGE BACKED TROUPIAL

 MARSH DEER

 SUN BITTERN

 GREEN IBIS

 GREY NECKED WOOD RAIL

 STRIATED HERON

 SUNBITTERN

 TURQUOISE FRONTED AMAZON

 BLACK BELLIED ANTWREN

 TURQUOISE FRONTED AMAZON

 GREATER RHEA

 BLACK VULTURE

 ROSEATE SPOONBILL

 WOOD STORK

 ANOTHER GIANT OTTER

 BOATBILL HERON

 ROSEATE SPOONBILL

 YELLOW BELLIED ELAENIA

 BLACK THROATED SALTATOR

 RED PILEATED FINCH

 NACUNDA NIGHTHAWK

KING VULTURE above BLACK VULTURE

 WHITE COLLARED SWIFT

 PEACH FRONTED PARAKEET

 BURROWING OWL

 CURL CRESTED JAY

 WHITE EARED PUFF BIRD

 BLUE CROWNED MOTMOT

 BLACK TAILED MARMOSET

CARACAS SANCTUARY

 RUFOUS COLLARDED SPARROW

 MASKED WATER TYRANT

 RUSTY MARGINED GUAN

 SAFFRON FINCH

 GILT EDGED TANAGER

SAPPHIRE SPANGLED EMERALD

 LONG TAILED TYRANT

FORK TAILED FLYCATCHER

BRAZILIAN TANAGER

BLACK FRONTED TITI

SHE HAS A BABY ON HER BACK.

 LONG TAILED TYRANT

LONG TAILED TYRANT

PALE THROATED PAMPAS FINCH

RECORD SHOT OF BLUE MANAKIN

 MANED WOLF It is really a fox not a wolf,but it comes to the garden where the old priest feeds it every night

SWALLOW TANAGER

CLIFF FLYCATCHER.

 BRASSY BREASTED TANAGER

CRESTED OROPENDOLA

 MASKED WATER TYRANT

MASKED WATER TYRANT

END OF PART THREE