Brazil

This past week in birding news was nothing if not exciting. Almost 16,000 birders, participating in the second annual Global…

In the forests of South America, a birder is likely to cross the path of a feeding flock of brown…

About half way between Brazil’s Sao Paulo and Rio de Janiero, lies a mountain valley containing the Itatiaia National Park….

Many people have heard of the immense Amazon Rainforest with its astonishing biodiversity. Some people might have heard of the…

On June 12th, FIFA’s Football World Cup will kick off in Brazil, with the home side hosting Croatia for the…

The Pantanal is a vast, seasonally flooded wetland — the largest in the world — in the southwest corner of…

Few people can imagine (or even take seriously) the life of a birding guide at a lodge in the tropics,…

After over a year of planning and preparation (and after a quick trip to the Pantanal and Chapada dos Guimaraes),…

Primarily, Lapwings are an Old World family with over 20 species including Australasia’s Masked Lapwing, Asia’s Yellow-wattled Lapwing and the…

Although 99% is privately owned, the Pantanal (swamp in Spanish) was my favorite place in Brazil.  I visited in September…