Just had a Mantled Hawk over the lodge, although seen from the lodge regularly it rarely comes this low!

Mantled Hawk. Andy Foster

Mantled Hawk. Andy Foster

There are now two new Serra dos Tucanos trip reports online, one by Blake Maybank who led 3 groups here from 18^th March – 29^th April 2008. As Blake was based here at the lodge for over 6 weeks and undertook each excursion on various occasions he has made some very interesting comparative trip lists for most of our excursions. Please click the link below to see further details.

http://maybank.tripod.com/SouthAmerica/Brazil-03-2008.htm

A more recent trip report has just been published by Neil Westwater on the Birdfinders website of a Birdfinders trip based at Serra dos Tucanos from the 16^th – 24^th January 2011. Please click the ink below to see further details.

http://www.birdfinders.co.uk/pdf/brazil-jan-2011.pdf

Serra dos Tucanos Lodge from the back garden

A group from Naturetrek have just departed after an 8 days stay with us. They saw a combined total of 219 species, of which 71 were Atlantic forest endemics! Highlights from the some of the trails were as follows:

Serra dos Tucanos Feeders and hummer feeders

Slaty-breasted Wood-Rail, Maroon-bellied Parakeet, Plain Parakeet, Saw-billed Hermit, Sombre Hummingbird, Swallow-tailed Hummingbird, Black Jacobin, Violet-capped Woodnymph, Spot-billed Toucanet, Blond-crested Woodpecker, Olive-green Tanager (up to 4), Ruby-crowned Tanager, Brazilian Tanager, Sayaca Tanager, Azure-shouldered Tanager (first records now coming in for this year as the weather gets cooler), Golden-chevroned Tanager, Orange-bellied Euphonia, Chestnut-bellied Euphonia, Blue-naped Chlorophonia, Green-headed Tanager, Burnished-buff Tanager and Green Honeycreeper.

Serra dos Tucanos Extension Trail

Scaly-headed Parrot, Surucua Trogon, Rufous-capped Motmot, Spot-billed Toucanet, Channel-billed Toucan, Yellow-eared Woodpecker, Streaked Xenops, White-eyed Foliage Gleaner, Thrush-like Woodcreeper, Star-throated Antwren, Scaled Antbird, White-shouldered Fire-eye, Black-cheeked Gnateater, Blue Manakin, White-throated Spadebill, Red-necked Tanager and Black-throated Grosbeak.

Three-toed Jacamar

Whistling Heron, White-tailed Hawk, Blackish Rail, Sapphire-spangled Emerald, Three-toed Jacamar, White-eared Puffbird, 6 White Woodpeckers, Red-eyed Thornbird, Scaled Woodcreeper, White-rumped Monjita, Streamer-tailed Tyrant, Yellow-browed Tyrant and Black-capped Donacobius.

Portao Azul

Amethyst Woodstar, Surucua Trogon, Saffron Toucanet, Yellow-browed Woodpecker, Green-barred Woodpecker, Chicli Spinetail, Rufous-capped Spinetail, White-collared Foliage-Gleaner, Black-billed Scythebill, Dusky-tailed Antbird, Yellow Tyrannulet, Grey-capped Tyrannulet, Hangnest Tody-Tyrant, Yellow-legged Thrush, Rufous-crowned Greenlet, Magpie Tanager and Temmincks Seedeater.

High Altitude Excursion

3 Red-legged Seriema, Plovercrest, White-throated Hummingbird, Yellow-browed Woodpecker, Large-tailed Antshrike, Rufous-capped Antshrike, Rufous-backed Antvireo, Rufous-tailed Antbird, Hooded Berryeater (this is the first record ever on our High Altitude Excursion), Serra do Mar Tyrannulet, Blue-billed Black-Tyrant, Diademed Tanager, Bay-chested Warbling Finch and Thick-billed Saltator.

Wetlands Excursion

Black-bellied Whistling Duck (now becoming increasingly common at the wetlands), Lesser Yellow-Headed Vulture, Rufous-sided Crake, White-eyed Parakeet (first record of this species on our Wetland Excursion), Tropical Screech-Owl, Chestnut-backed Antshrike, White-flanked Antwren, Unicolored Antwren, Eye-ringed Tody-Tyrant, Moustached Wren, Long-billed Wren, Swallow Tanager, Chestnut-capped Blackbird and White-browed Blackbird.

Serra dos Orgaos National Park

Mantled Hawk, Short-tailed Hawk, Ruddy-Quail Dove, Toco Toucan (first record of this species for us on the southern side of the mountains), Yellow-eared Woodpecker, Yellow-throated Woodpecker, Spot-breasted Antvireo, Ochre-rumped Antbird, White-bibbed Antbird, Whiskered Flycatcher, Sharpbill (2!), Yellow-backed Tanager and Yellow-Green Grosbeak.