September 2007

Most of the month spent in the city of Maceio, Brazil. Not a great place for birding, nor a sensible place to wander around with a pair of binoculars. The following were all seen in Maceio, unless mentioned otherwise:

1. Magnificent frigatebird (around Rio airport)
2. Great egret
3. Black vulture
4. Turkey vulture
5. Southern caracara
6. Common ground-dove
7. Feral pigeon
8. Bare-throated bellbird
9. Masked water-tyrant
10. Cattle tyrant
11. Great kiskadee
12. Blue-and-white swallow
13. Bananaquit
14. Sayaca tanager
15. House sparrow

Non-birds

Great sighting of a radio-tagged Brazilian manatee (Tricechus manatus manatus) swimming down the beach in the city.