From January 14th to 16th, 2020, I prepared a bird photography trip for Luiz Antonio, it was 3 very intense days focused on the photography of some birds that Luiz didn’t have yet. In his list of lifers were about 80 species. In these 3 days we visited the cities of Resende and Itatiaia RJ, Itamonte MG and São José do Barreiro and Areias SP.
We started in a pond near the park where there is always a bunch of masked duck, this time there were 8 individuals, also there the Least Grebe. Shortly afterwards we head towards the upper part of the park where birds of altitude vary from 1700m to 2450m. In this place lives the Itatiaia Spinetail, endemic bird of altitude.
Altitude Fields of Itatiaia National Park
Araucaria forest
Golden grass
Already in the upper part of the park the first bird we photographed was the Green-crowned Plovercrest. We went down after lunch and went to Itatiaia to make an attempt at the first registration of the grass sage and it worked .. Then we went to Penedo and with the Friend’s help Geraldo Lauria got photos of the rufous-capped Motmot, a bird that was among the top 5 on Luiz’s list.
On the second day we went to the Serra da Bocaina National Park region, climbed the mountains with a little fog, which disturbed the sharpness of some photos, the giant antshrike collaborated well, but with poor visibility due to the fog that was in the place. . Our lunch was at Pousada Recanto da Bocaina, by friend José Milton, who always welcomes us so well.
Serra da Bocaina road
View from the top of Serra da Bocaina
View from the top of Serra da Bocaina
Luiz photographing the Serra da Bocaina valley
On the last day we went to Serrinha do Alambari where we got another 4 lifers and then went to the lower part of Itatiaia National Park.
Serrinha do Alambari Portal
Waterfall in Itatiaia National Park
Soundstone at Serrinha do Alambari
Luiz photographing one more bird
Thank you Luiz and see you next time.
In all there were 30 lifers in 3 days.
Some birds of the three days: (those in bold that were Luiz’s lifers)
- Black billed scythebill
- Narrow billed woodcreeper
- White throated woodcreeper
- Picazuro Pigeon – Patagioenas picazuro
- Ultramarine Grosbeak – Cyanoloxia brissonii
- Green crowned plovercrest
- Black jacobin
- Brazilian ruby
- Great Kiskadee – Pitangus sulphuratus
- Thick billed saltator
- Tufted Antshrike – Mackenziaena severa
- bananaquit
- Saffron finch
- Black capped piprites
- Chestnut-crowned Becard – Pachyramphus castaneus
- Unicolored Blackbird
- Rufous-backed Antvireo – Dysithamnus xanthopterus
- Ochre-rumped Antbird – Drymophila ochropyga
- Star throated antwren
- White-bellied Seedeater – Sporophila leucoptera
- Shiny Cowbird – Molothrus bonariensis
- Chestnut-bellied Seed-Finch
- Southern Antpipit – Corythopis delalandi
- Serra do mar tyrannulet
- Chestnut-bellied Euphonia
- Greenish Schiffornis – Schiffornis virescens
- Serra do Mar Tyrant-Manakin
- Itatiaia spinetail
- Long-billed Wren –Cantorchilus longirostris
- Golden-rumped Euphonia – Euphonia cyanocephala
- Savanna Hawk – Heterospizias meridionalis
- White-rumped Hawk – Parabuteo leucorrhous
- Dusky-legged Guan – Penelope obscura
- Black-capped Donacobius – Donacobius atricapilla
- Orange-breasted Thornbird – Phacellodomus ferrugineigula
- Sharp-tailed Streamcreeper – Lochmias nematura
- Rufous capped motmot
- White-browed Foliage-gleaner – Anabacerthia amaurotis
- Common potoo
- Blue-billed Black-Tyrant – Knipolegus cyanirostris
- Yellow Tyrannulet – Capsiempis flaveola
- Masked duck
- Green kingfisher
- Least grebe
- Boat-billed Flycatcher – Megarynchus pitangua
- Gray-backed Tachuri – Polystictus superciliaris
- Fork tailed pygmy-tyrant
- Bay-chested Warbling-Finch – Poospiza thoracica
- Gray-bellied Spinetail – Synallaxis cinerascens
- White spotted woodpecker
- Rufous-capped Spinetail – Synallaxis ruficapilla
- Speckle breasted antpitta
- Plumbeous pigeon
- Buff-throated Warbling-Finch – Microspingus lateralis
- Blue dacnis – Blue Dacnis
- Gilt-edged Tanager – Tangara cyanoventris
- Rufous-headed Tanager – Hemithraupis ruficapilla
- Green-headed Tanager – Tangara seledon
- Gray breasted crake
- Diademed Tanager – Stephanophorus diadematus
- Black-and-gold Cotinga – Lipaugus ater
- Swallow-tailed Manakin – Chiroxiphia caudata
- Pin-tailed Manakin – Ilicura militaris
- Swallow tailed cotinga
- Magpie Tanager – Cissopis leverianus
- Such’s Antthrush – Chamaeza meruloides
- Rufous tailed antthrush
- Variegated Antpitta – Grallaria varia
- Bertoni’s Antbird – Drymophila rubricollis
- Olivaceous Elaenia – Elaenia mesoleuca
Green crowned plovercrest
Green kingfisher
Least grebe
Masked duck
Masked duck
Black capped piprites
Rufous tailed antthrush
Speckle breasted antpitta
Gray breasted crake
Common potoo
White spotted woodpecker
Serra do mar tyrannulet
Rufous tailed antthrush
Itatiaia Spinetail – Asthenes moreirae
Thick billed saltator – Saltator maxillosus
Plumbeous pigeon – Plumbeous Pigeon
Swallow tailed cotinga
Chestnut bellied seed-finch
White-bellied Seedeater – Sporophila leucoptera
Saffron Finch – Sicalis flaveola
Queen butterfly – Danaus gillipus
Rufous capped motmot
Orange-breasted Thornbird – Phacellodomus ferrugineigula
Ochre-rumped Antbird – Drymophila ochropyga
Giant Antshrike – Batara cinerea
Rufous-backed Antvireo – Dysithamnus xanthopterus
Bertoni’s Antbird – Drymophila rubricollis
Gray-backed Tachuri – Polystictus superciliaris
Olivaceous Elaenia – Elaenia mesoleuca
Golden-rumped Euphonia – Euphonia cyanocephala
Sharp-tailed Streamcreeper – Lochmias nematura
Tiger butterfly – consul fabius
Ultramarine Grosbeak – Cyanoloxia brissonii
beetle
Unicolored Blackbird – Agelasticus cyanopus
Magpie Tanager – Cissopis leverianus
Rufous-headed Tanager – Hemithraupis ruficapilla
Serra do Mar Tyrant-Manakin – Neopelma chrysolophum
butterfly
Gilt-edged Tanager – Tangara cyanoventris
butterfly
Narrow-billed Woodcreeper – Lepidocolaptes angustirostris
Yellow Tyrannulet – Capsiempis flaveola
Black jacobin – Florisuga fusca
Chestnut-bellied Euphonia – Euphonia pectoralis
Swallow-tailed Manakin – Chiroxiphia caudata
Rufous-capped Spinetail – Synallaxis ruficapilla
Greenish Schiffornis – Schiffornis virescens
White-bibbed Antbird – Myrmoderus loricatus
Tufted Antshrike – Mackenziaena severa
Long-billed Wren – Cantorchilus longirostris
Long-billed Wren – Cantorchilus longirostris
White-browed Foliage-gleaner – Anabacerthia amaurotis
Black-billed Scythebill
Such’s Antthrush – Chamaeza meruloides
Pin-tailed Manakin – Ilicura militaris
Fork tailed pygmy-tyrant
White throated woodcreeper
Star throated antwren
