Welcome back!

As you have probably guessed if you visit our updates page regularly we have been absent for the past few weeks. This has given all of us here at Serra dos Tucanos a nice break over Christmas and the New Year period. We are now all refreshed and ready to show all of you booked in for 2009 our diverse and wonderful variety of birds that we have here at the lodge and on the excursions we offer.

We have already been open for a week, highlights so far for 2009 have included the following:

Lodge grounds and trails:
Brown Tinamou, Black and White Hawk Eagle, Maroon-bellied and Plain Parakeets, Saw-billed Hermit, Rufous-breasted Hermit, Sombre Hummingbird, Black Jacobin, Frilled Coquette, Violet-capped Woodnymph, Rufous-capped Motmot, Blond-crested Woodpecker, Yellow-eared Woodpecker, Tail-banded Hornero, Sharp-tailed Streamcreeper, White-throated Woodcreeper, Spot-breasted Antvireo, Star-throated Antwren, Rufous and Black-cheeked Gnateater, Blue Manakin, Yellow-lored Tody-Flycatcher, Gray-hooded Attila, Brazilian Tanager, Red-necked Tanager and Black-throated Grosbeak.

Theodoro Trail:
Mantled Hawk, Scale-throated Hermit, White-throated Hummingbird, Spot-billed Toucanet, Black-billed Scythebill, Bertonis Antbird and Pin-tailed Manakin.

Three-toed Jacamar Excursion:
Blue-winged Macaw, White-eared Puffbird, Three-toed Jacamar, Serra Antwren and Hangnest Tody-Tyrant.

High Altitude Excursions:
Glittering-bellied Emerald, White-throated Hummingbird, Brazilian Ruby, Pallid Spinetail, Itatiaia Thistletail, Red-eyed Thornbird, Large-tailed Antshrike, Rufous-tailed Antbird, Swallow-tailed Cotinga, Black and Gold Cotinga, great views of Grey-winged Cotinga, Serra do Mar Tyrannulet, Diademed Tanager, Brassy-breasted Tanager and Bay-chested Warbling Finch.

Red-eyed Thornbird© Hop Hopkins