Tropical Birding tour report - Brazil June 2006
caipirinhas
, and World Cup fever for an even more
unique experience. The most amazing thing of all was the weather. With 27 days
in Brazil you can reasonably expect some rain, but we hardly had any, and what
we did have didn't impact the birding at all. All but a few days were beautiful,
sunny, and not too hot - a windy day at Algulhas Negras caused some grief, but
overall we hardly could have been luckier.
We
offered three departures that could be combined or taken separately.
Some of the group chose the first two tours for a two week trip, others picked
the latter two for a three week trip, while some clients had time only to do one
of the trips. Due to the overlap, I have chosen to write one report for the
three trips together - please forgive me if this causes inconvenience (or pain!
Inevitably each group sees its own special birds, and no one apart from me did
all three trips together).
Tour
A: Brazil Introtour
4-11 June
Chuck and Nancy Bell, Marge and Joe Crouch, Sonia Jupp, Barry and Michelle
Miller, Sally Wechsler.
This
was a shorter Atlantic Rainforest tour concentrating on a fairly small area in
and around the Serra dos ??rg??os mountain range in the state of Rio de Janeiro. We
were based most of the time in the very nice Guapiassu Bird Lodge, but had two
nights at a more basic hotel in the mountains to be able to bird the high
elevations more easily. Bird activity overall was excellent with many
mixed-species flocks and good vocal activity. |
