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Today we have part 9 of Robert Lang‘s collection of photos that he took while visiting Brazil’s region last year. Robert’s captions and IDs are indented, and you can enlarge his photo by clicking on them.
Readers’ Wildlife Photos: The Pantanal, Part IX: Birds
Continuing our mid-2025 journey to the Pantanal in Brazil, by far the largest category of observation and photography was birds: we saw over 100 different species of birds (and this was not even a birding-specific trip, though the outfitter also organizes those for the truly hard core). Here we continue working our way through the alphabetarium of common names.
Potoo (Nyctibius sp.). Our guide spotted this one at night atop a roadside post, and while the lighting made it far beyond the abilities of my big-lens Canon, my iPhone 14 managed to get a decent picture—as one of several tries, mostly unsuccessful, but this one came out:
Purplish jay (Cyanocorax cyanomelas):
Red-crested cardinal (Paroaria coronata):
Red-legged seriema (Cariama cristata):
Greater rhea (Rhea americana):
Rhea chicks:
Ringed kingfisher (Megaceryle torquata):
Roadside hawk (Rupornis magnirostris). Saw a lot of these, some of them even along the side of the road:
Roseate spoonbill (Platalea ajaja) among the caimans:
Caatinga cacholote (Pseudoseisura cristata). Formerly called the rufous cacholote (which was what our guide identified it as):
More birds to come.
Wonderful – very interesting cardinal!
That Red-crested Cardinal has, well, a very red crest! Looks like (255,0,0) to me.
🙂 to 255.
I wonder how long ago the divergence happened between them and the North American ones.
Roadside post bird looked like both had been sculpted by an artist!
These are wonderful, thank you. I especially love the colors in the image of the Caatinga cacholote
Gorgeous pictures. I’m always impressed at how many different varieties of birds there are.
The elusive Potoo! One among a host of excellent photos, for which we thank you.
Very nice! Thanks.
The Rhea chicks look like little dinosaurs. Nice photos.
Cool! I wonder if that is Darwins’ Rhea, a species that was named after him (Rhea darwinii) before the name was changed to something else.
Nice photos. I think the potoo must be the Great Potoo, N. grandis. It is much larger and stockier than the other potoos, and is also whiter and shorter-tailed than the others.
I love your “roadside hawk”. Evokes a special mood. Very nice.
Great pix. Thanks!