Complete Pará Tour (20 days)
The Amazon rainforests is known as the largest extent of tropical forest in the World, and this itinerary is focused on the most endangered Amazon regions located in Pará State. This region is severely affected by historical deforestation and fragmentation of native habitats, the tour comprises “terra firme” forests, “varzeas” (flooded forests), mangroves, hypersaline campos, ‘cangas’ or metallophilic savannah and a plenty of endemic and endangered birds. This is a compiled of our Eastern Pará Tour + Amazonia National Park Tour and can be linked with Santarém region and Trombetas River Tour (soon available on website), encompassing all areas of endemism of Pará state and half in Amazon forest. If you have heard about birds of Brazilian Amazon this is an itinerary for you.
The climate in the region is warm and humid most of the year, the best and recommended period for birding is from May to November, when the rainy season is out. Join us in this fantastic tour on endangered forests that few people have visited to birding before, with terrific bird species and other wildlifes.
Harlequin Antbird
Rhegmatorhina berlepschi
Brazilian Endemic
SPECIAL TARGETS
- Buff-browed Chachalaca (Ortalis superciliaris)
- Scarlet Ibis (Eudocimus ruber)
- Rufous Crab Hawk (Buteogallus aequinoctialis)
- Cryptic Forest-Falcon (Micrastur mintoni)
- Black-winged Trumpeter (Psophia obscura)¹
- Little Wood-Rail (Aramides mangle)
- Black Rail (Laterallus jamaicensis)
- Vulturine Parrot (Pyrilia vulturina)
- Golden Parakeet (Guaruba guarouba)
- Pearly Parakeet (Pyrrhura coerulescens)
- White-winged Potoo (Nyctibius leucopeterus)
- Brown-chested Barbet (Capito brunneipectus)
- Todd's Woodcreeper (Dendrocolaptes medius)¹
- Brigida's Woodcreeper (Hylexetastes brigidai)
- Xingu Woodcreeper (Dendrocolaptes retentus)¹
- Carajas Woodcreeper (Xiphocolaptes carajaensis)
- Snethlage's Scythebill (Campylorhamphus multostriatus)¹
- Ruddy Spinetail (Synallaxis rutilans omissa)*
- Peruvian Recurvebill (Syndactila ucayalae)
- Harlequim Antbird (Rhegmatorhina berlepschi)
- White-faced Antbird (Phlegopsis borbae)
- Manu Antbird (Cercomacra manu)
- Snethlage's Antpitta (Hylopezus paraensis)
- Alta Floresta Antpitta (Hylopezus whittakeri)
- Hooded Gnateater (Conopophaga roberti)
- Black-bellied Gnateater (Conopophaga melanogaster)
- Chestnut-belted Gnateater (Conopophaga aurita)
- 'New Pygmy Tyrant' (Myiornis sp. nv.)
- Black-and-white Tody Flycatcher (Poecilotriccus capitalis)
- Opal-crowned Manakin (Lepidothrix iris)
- Snow-capped Manakin (Lepidothrix nattereri)
- White Bellbird (Procnias albus wallacei)*
- Guianan Red-Cotinga (Phoenicircus carnifex)
- Red-and-black Grosbeak (Periporphyrus erythromelas)
- Rose-breasted Chat (Granatellus pelzelni paraensis)*
- Pará Oropendola (Psarocolius bifasciatus bifasciatus)*
* Local race
¹ Recent split
OTHER WILDLIFE
- Crab-eating Raccoon (Procyon crancrivorus)
- Jaguar (Panthera onca)
- White-lipped Peccary (Tayassu pecari)
- Red-rumped Agouti (Dasyprocta leporina)
- Lowland Tapir (Tapirus terrestris)
- Brown-throated Sloth (Bradypus variegatus)
- South American Coati (Nasua nasua)
- Black-handed Tamarin (Saguinus niger)
- Black-bearded Saki (Chiropotes satanas)
- Red-handed Howler Monkey (Allouata belzebul)
- Tufted Capuchin (Sapajus apella)
- Ka'apor Capuchin (Cebus kaapori)
- Collin's Squirrel Monkey (Saimiri collinsi)
- Black-bellied Titi Monkey (Plecturocebus molloch)