Pedro´s Big New Year

[michael-ibk]

Very nice Trogon photo. And agree, Hummers are tricky away from feeders. 

[Kitsafari]

the adult sloths and that cute tiny sloth, and the beautiful witch are very bewitching.

Great shot of the trogon too!

[Dave Williams]

Some excellent sighting and shots and I'm envious of a trip to South America!

You do have me confused on your count though, I think you have sneaked past 300 without us all knowing!! 

331 by my count.

Congratulations!!

[pedro maia]

19 hours ago, Dave Williams said:

Some excellent sighting and shots and I'm envious of a trip to South America!

You do have me confused on your count though, I think you have sneaked past 300 without us all knowing!! 

331 by my count.

Congratulations!!

 

I don´t get it Dave, I would need a few more trips to reach those numbers.

[pedro maia]

#34, Ringed kingfisher (Megaceryle torquata)

 

Only two kingfisher species in this trip and none new to me, both much more skittish than in the Pantanal.

[pedro maia]

#35, Amazon kingfisher (Chloroceryle amazona)

 

Only saw the female and she only stayed still quite far from me.

[pedro maia]

#36, Spot-backed Puffbird (Nystalus maculatus)

 

I was thrilled to see this one, it was quite distant but never moved and I had the P900.

 

It seems that according to the South American classification this one is the Caatinga puffbird, endemic to Eastern Brasil, and there is another one called Chaco puffbird (Nystalus striatipectus), bird classification can be quite complicated.

[pedro maia]

#37, Rufous-tailed jacamar (Galbula ruficauda)

 

Only one sighting, saw a few in the Pantanal.

[Dave Williams]

On 7/18/2022 at 2:47 PM, pedro maia said:

We drove the dirt road back to Alcochete and at some point there was another nightjar on the road that allowed the some kind of approach, I didn´t lay down but sat close to it and it was the other one!

 

#23 (298), 17/7, European nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus), Pancas area

Sorry Pedro, I was confused by this entry where it has 298 in brackets. I thought that was the overall score.

[pedro maia]

41 minutes ago, Dave Williams said:

Sorry Pedro, I was confused by this entry where it has 298 in brackets. I thought that was the overall score.

That’s my life total for Portugal.

[pedro maia]

#38, Black-necked araçari (Pteroglossus aracari)

 

 

Aracaris are quite cool looking birds, I saw this species, new to me, a couple of times in the Aruá Forest but wasn´t able to get nicer pictures, always in the backlight.

[pedro maia]

#39, Ochre-backed woodpecker (Celeus ochraceus)

 

 

Only sighting of this woodpecker endemic for Brazil, a new species to me.

[pedro maia]

#40, Red-stained woodpecker (Veniliornis affinis)

 

 

Another new species, only sighting in the Aruá Forest.

[pedro maia]

#41, Straight-billed woodcreeper (Dendroplex picus)

[PeterHG]

Some good woodpeckers here, Pedro! Never seen any of them.

[pedro maia]

#42, Rufous hornero (Furnarius rufus)

 

Very common like in the Pantanal, it thrives close to people and maybe because it´s so common I forgot to try and get a better picture.

 

I really like Brazilian names for birds, most are popular and/or onomatopeic, in this case it´s called João-de-barro, Clay-john, referring to it´s clay "oven" nest.

[pedro maia]

#43, Caatinga cacholote (Pseudoseisura cristata)

 

Very similar to the Grey-crested cacholote (Pseudoseisura unirufa) which can be found in the Pantanal.

[pedro maia]

#44, Sooretama slaty antshrike (Thamnophilus ambiguus)

 

This species is endemic to coastal regions of eastern Brazil between Sergipe and São Paulo, seen a couple of times in the Aruá Forest and in the Klaus Peters Park.

Edited December 9, 2022 by pedro maia

[pedro maia]

#45, Southern white-fringed antwren (Formicivora grisea)

 

Classic forest EBC 

Edited December 9, 2022 by pedro maia

[pedro maia]

#46, Fringe-backed fire-eye (Pyriglena atra)

Male

 

Female

 

A rare endangeared species that occurs only in a small strip of the Atlantic Forest, from southern Sergipe to north-eastern Bahia.

 

Only sighting in the Aruá Forest, they were eating army ants (papa-taoca, army ant eater) and I struggled to see them and struggled even more to take pictures.

Edited December 9, 2022 by pedro maia

[Galana]

8 hours ago, pedro maia said:

Classic forest EBC 

That deserves a double 'tick' for effort. Epic.

[pedro maia]

I have to resume my brazilian count but first I´ll go to the pelagic trip I did last sunday, I wasn´t really looking forward to this one, it was organised by the same guy who organised the pelagic of last May, when Michael was here, so I knew we would go far and last time it was far from productive so I was secretly rooting for the weather to be bad enough to cancel the trip.

 

That wasn´t the case, the forecast was good so thursday we had the go ahead confirmation, then I was informed of the itinerary and I though these guys are crazy and I´m also crazy to go along, we would go to somewhere more or less close to Peniche, this was the itinerary, 100km each way (!!!):

 

 

Now I can say that I´m glad I went since it was tough, 14,5 hours in the sea,left Cascais at 5:30am and returned at 8:00pm, over 5 hours each way, but it was the best pelagic ever for me and talso for all the other participants, most of them with many pelagics under their belts.

 

These are the new species for my Portugal life list:

 

#24 (299), 30/10, Pomarine jaeger (Stercorarius pomarinus), Pelagic Trip

 

 

 

 

 

#25 (300), 30/10, Sabine's gull (Xema sabini), Pelagic Trip

 

 

 

 

 

 

#26 (301), 30/10, Long-tailed jaeger (Stercorarius longicaudus) Pelagic Trip

 

 

Edited November 21, 2022 by pedro maia

[pedro maia]

Unfortunately, I missed the mega rarity of the trip, it was only the next day when one of the participants found in his pictures a South polar skua, I don´t have it, although I´m tempted to try to retrieve all the very bad pictures I deleted while returning to cascais, one never knows...

 

Some pictures of species I already had:

 

Parasitic jaeger

 

 

We saw hundreds of petrels (european, wilson´s amd leach´s), they are allways hard to photograph

 

 

 

 

Great shearwater

 

 

 

Cory's shearwater

 

 

Common gull, not so common here

 

 

Common tern

 

 

Northern gannet

 

 

We saw over 25 species, which is a lot for a pelagic, and in very high numbers, it was definitely a great trip.

Edited November 2, 2022 by pedro maia

[xelas]

An extraordinary boat trip, with excellent results!. All BIF from a boat?! Wow! And the results are great. Was there a new camera involved??

[pedro maia]

58 minutes ago, xelas said:

An extraordinary boat trip, with excellent results!. All BIF from a boat?! Wow! And the results are great. Was there a new camera involved??

All from the boat and there’s no new camera, but the conditions were very good, few swell and light wind and many birds came very close to the boat, the chum was good even if the smell was just terrible.