October 2007

Travelling from Maceio, along the north-east littoral of Brazil, as far as Belem, before flying to Brasilia and then finally visiting Minas Gerais. Much time still spent in cities, but Fernando de Noronha was a highlight.

Brackets signify species already seen in other location. Not all repeated sightings are listed.

Fernando de Noronha
16. White-tailed tropicbird
17. Masked booby
18. Red-footed booby
19. Brown booby
20. Cattle egret
21. Ruddy turnstone
22. Least sandpiper
23. Whimbrel
24. White tern
25. Brown noddy
26. Black noddy
27. Eared dove (Z. a. noronha)
28. Northern elaenia (E. s. ridleyiana)
29. Noronha vireo
30. Red-cowled cardinal (int. from mainland)
(Magnificent frigatebird, House sparrow)

Natal
31. Picui ground-dove
32. Semi-palmated plover
33. Guira cuckoo
34. Roadside hawk
(Cattle tyrant, Southern caracara)

Fortaleza
35. Common moorhen
36. Southern lapwing
37. Scaled dove

Teresina
38. Tropical gnatcatcher
39. Fork-tailed palmswift

Sao Luis
40. Tropical kingbird
41. Snowy egret
42. Little blue heron

Lencois Maranhenses National Park
43. Ringed kingfisher
44. Amazon kingfisher
45. Large-billed tern
46. Gray-hooded gull
47. Black-necked stilt
48. Greater yellowlegs
49. Collared Plover

Belem
50. White-winged swallow

Brasilia
51. Fork-tailed flycatcher
52. Burrowing owl
(Blue-and-white swallow)

Belo Horizonte
53. Black-crowned night-heron
(Fork-tailed flycatcher)

Ouro Preto
54. Common waxbill (introduced)
55. Rufous-collared sparrow
56. Long-tailed tyrant
57. House wren
58. Rufous-bellied thrush
59. Green-headed tanager
60. Swallow-tanager (in Mariana)
61. Ruby-crowned tanager
62. Blue-black grassquit
(Cattle tyrant, Sayaca tanager)

Non-birds
On Noronha: green turtle, dolphins (Stenella longirostris), moco (introduced rodent, Keredon rupestris), teju and Mabuya maculata (both lizards). Also an introduced species of very large frog. Common marmosets seen in Joao Pessoa.