Today we have part 10 (three to go) of Robert Lang‘s photo series from his trip to Brazil’s Pantanal region last year, His captions and IDs are indented, and you can enlarge the photos by clicking on them.
Readers’ Wildlife Photos: The Pantanal, Part X: 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.
Rufous hornero (Furnarius rufus):
They build mud nests that look like small ovens; here’s one:
Savanna hawk (Buteogallus meridionalis):
Sayaca tanager (Thraupis sayaca):
Snail kite (Rostrhamus sociabilis). Usually, I’m using my big lens to try to bring in a distant bird, but sometimes they pop up so close that I can’t get them all in the frame even zoomed out. Especially when they’re flying transversely to the line of sight:
Social flycatcher (Myiozetetes similis):
Southern lapwing (Vanellus chilensis):
Southern screamer and chick (Chauna torquata):
Spot-breasted woodpecker (Colaptes punctigula):
Squirrel cuckoo (Piaya cayana):
More birds still to come.
Beautiful!
Awesome pictures, especially the Spot-breasted woodpecker. And the Savanna Hawk looks like someone photoshopped a hawk’s beak on to a dove, but that might just be a me problem 😉
Gorgeous photos! The Sayaca tanager bird photo is a masterpiece. It looks like an impressionist painting.
Thank you!
Nice!
Why is this bird called the Southern screamer?
Had to find out just in case I wanted to start a
Southern thrash rock band…
Sure enough, (wiki)
“The southern screamer’s “loud, unmelodious, double-noted trumpet call” has been further described as “a low, throaty, almost barking, brief oh-WOOOW which also sounds sometimes as be-SERK.”
Thanks for the post.
Sorry Norman, this is not a reply.
Very nice. Thank you.
Thank you. Beautiful as usual.
Very cool birds! The Screamer and the Lapwing look like they escaped from the movie FLOW 🙂