The Amazon, Pantanal and Iguacu falls
Use a map to trace the geographical center of the South American continent and you will find yourself pointing at the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso. Straddling the continental divide between the Amazon and Plata river basins, this amazingly diverse state provides the easiest and best access to the largest variety of habitats on the continent. Just a century ago this was a very remote and rugged territory, but a major airport in Cuiabá and highways in all directions have made it an ecotourism hotspot and the best region for a single trip to Brazil. By visiting three major ecoregions—the cerrado, the Pantanal wetlands, and the Amazon rainforest—we were exposed to a remarkable variety of tropical bird families, including cracids, parrots, toucans, woodcreepers and ovenbirds, antbirds, and cotingas. - Wings Birding trip note 2023
Red-crested finch
Brown jacamar
Hooded tanager
Brown-crested flycatcher
Brazilian three-banded armadillo
Blue dacnis
Sayaca tanager
Southern beardless-tyrannulet
Burrowing owl
Red-legged seriema
Burrowing owls
Black vultures
Glittering-throated emerald hummingbird
Blue-tufted starthroat hummingbird
Swallow-tailed hummingbird
Long-tailed skipper
Red and green macaws
Black-throated mango
White-vented violetear hummingbird
White-vented violetear hummingbird
Blue and yellow macaws
Blue and yellow macaws
Proboscis bat
Glittering-throated emerald hummingbird
Chalk-browed mockingbird
White-rumped tanager
Coal-crested finch
Rufous-tailed Jacamar
Rufous-tailed Jacamar
Blue dacnis
Saffron finch
Bat falcon
Bat falcon
Common Potoo
Spangled continga
Amazonian pygmy owl
Common pauraque
Gray-cowled wood-rail
Slender-billed xenops
Gray-lined hawk
Capped heron
Razor-billed curassow
Green ibis
Pyrocumulonimbus
White-bellied parrot
Flame-crested tanager
Black-billed cuckoo
Turquoise tanager
White-chinned sapphire
White-necked jacobin
Scarlet macaw
Large-headed flatbill
Sunbittern
Cocoi heron