Birding Mato Grosso

06/09/2023

16/02/2023

Pantanal... this July! Spaces available.

Jaguar watching season in the Pantanal is approaching!

Come visit the Pantanal with us this July. Due to a last minute cancellation we now have dates available for this July, arguably the best month to visit the Pantanal.

The tour highlights:

- 12 nights in the Pantanal and Chapada dos Guimarães
- 2 full days spent photographing jaguars by boat
- Dry season spectacle in South America's greatest wilderness destination
- Experienced birding and natural history guide
- Small group size (maximum 6 guests)

Cost: $4300 US per person for a group of 4 guests in double occupancy. For 6 guests, the price is discounted to $3500 USD per person in double occupany. Single rooms available but limited, single supplement $650.

Contact us for the full itinerary and more information.

WhatsApp: +55 66 98403-5485
Email: [email protected] or [email protected]

01/12/2021

After 13 years of organizing and operating high quality birding and nature tours under the Birding Mato Grosso banner, we are excited to continue that tradition as Agami Nature Tours!

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Depos de 13 anos operando tours de birding e historia natural do mais alto padrão sob a bandeira de Birding Mato Grosso, estamos animadíssimos para continuar a tradição como Agami Nature Tours!

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08/06/2021

Another set of images from Pousada PiraAçu , an exciting new destination for birders and wildlife lovers on the remote Aripuanã river in the Brazilian Amazon.

Clockwise from top left:
Common Potoo (Nyctibius griseus)
Gold-and-white Marmoset (Mico chrysoleucus)
Banded Antbird (Dichrozona cincta)
Cayenne Spiny-backed Frog (Osteocephalus leprieurii)
Chestnut-belted Gnateater (Conopophaga aurita)
Ferruginous-backed Antbird (Myrmoderus ferrugineus)
Blue-cheeked Jacamar (Galbula cyanicollis)
Rufous-necked Puffbird (Malacoptila rufa)

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Or visit: www.birdingmatogrosso.com

17/01/2021

Staying home has its advantages! A handsome Striped Owl (Asio clamator) was a nighttime visitor yesterday here in Alta Floresta in the Brazilian Amazon. If you can, stay home and stay safe!

11/01/2021

This past November I was invited to scout the southern reaches of the Juruena National Park by ICMBio and the Flutuante Salto Augusto. This Cryptic Forest-Falcon was one of the many highlights of the visit. The elegant lodge and remote wilderness of Juruena NP are sure to put on the map in the very near future.

05/12/2020

Tui Parakeet (Brotogeris sanctithomae).
A friendly parakeet of humid forests and flooded forests, common, along many Amazonian rivers.
Possible on our western Amazon itinerary.
Photo taken by our guide:

02/09/2020

As queimadas no Pantanal estão fora de controle, matando muitos animais e ameaçando as vidas de quem mora e trabalha na região. O Pantanal é tombado como Patrimônio Mundial pelo UNESCO e deve ser fonte de orgulho para todo brasileiro. Por favor, ajudem as pessoas que estão combatendo esses fogos, de forma totalmente voluntária, pela paixão que tem por este bioma fantástico.

29/06/2020

Yellow-billed Cardinal feeding at a flowering Combretum (escova-de-macaco) in the northern Pantanal -- a common scene during the dry season. The native species of Combretum climbing bushes found in Brazil are magnets for a wide variety of birds when they are in flower.

02/06/2020

While its rarer cousin the Hyacinth Macaw (admittedly a very handsome bird) gets more attention, for my money the Blue-and-yellow Macaw (Ara ararauna) is the best looking macaw in Brazil... if I could choose a bird that best represents the state of Mato Grosso, this would be it. Loud, charismatic, and abundant in the open spaces of the cerrado and the dense forests of the Amazon, these macaws really grab your attention!

20/04/2020

The unique Saw-billed Hermit is endemic to the lowland Atlantic rainforest found along the coastal plain and at the base of the Serra do Mar in eastern Brazil. Check out this slow-mo video to see how this tiny wonder of nature sips at the nectar from a homemade hummingbird feeder.

07/04/2020

This is Cryptic Forest-Falcon (Micrastur mintoni), a discreet inhabitant of the dark forest.

This photo was taken in July 2016, when we were pleased to help our friend add hundreds of species from the Amazon during his Big Year and we are very honored to have contributed while he was trying to break the world record.

The world record of 6.852 species was set in 2016 by Arjan Dwarshuis, from the Netherlands.

07/04/2020

Imagine paddling quietly up to a bird like this... it looks in your direction, makes a split-second decision to ignore you, and returns its attention to the small fish it has been stalking for several minutes now... During the end of the dry season at Anavilhanas National Park in the Brazilian Amazon (from late September into November), this sort of encounter with the fabulous Agami Heron (Agamia agami) happens regularly!

25/03/2020

A pair of Rondonia Bushbird (Clytoctantes atrogularis)!

One of the rarest and most enigmatic birds in the Amazon rainforest is one of the highlights of our specially itinerary called: REMOTE SOUTHERN AMAZONIA.

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@ Rondônia, Rondonia, Brazil

22/02/2020

For three consecutive years we have visited the north-eastern state of Maranhao in October and November to witness the spectacular crake spectacle in Arari... ten species of rallids seen in a single day! Also Hooded Gnateater, Kaempfer's Woodpecker, Black-chested Tyrant, Buff-browed Chachalaca, Bearded Bellbird and much more!

The trip report from our 2018 tour is now online at: https://www.birdingmatogrosso.com/trip-reports

All of our Maranhao trips are accompanied by local guide extraordinaire Thiago Rodrigues. Without Thiago's legwork and fieldcraft, these trips wouldn't be nearly as successful!

19/07/2019

A selection of great birds found and photographed by our guide Bruno Rennó​ during a recent customized Birding Mato Grosso​ tour to the Southwestern Brazilian Amazon.

Clockwise from top left:

Black-faced Cotinga (Conioptilon mcilhennyi)
White-throated Jacamar (Brachygalba albogularis)
Amazonian Parrotlet (Nannopsittaca dachillae)
Semicollared Puffbird (Malacoptila semicincta)
Purple-throated Cotinga (Porphyrolaema porphyrolaema)
Ocellated Poorwill (Nyctiphrynus ocellatus)
Opal-crowned Tanager (Tangara callophrys)
Peruvian Recurvebill (Simoxenops ucayalae)
centre -- White-cheeked Tody-Flycatcher (Poecilotriccus albifacies)

12/07/2019

10/07/2019

Amazonian Parrotlet (Nannopsittaca dachilleae), an elusive little parrot found only in the southwestern Amazon, and almost unknown in Brazil. Many thanks to Ricardo Plácido, top guide in the state of Acre, for alerting us to the presence of these birds!

07/07/2019

The legendary Rondônia Bushbird!

O lendário choca-de-garganta-preta (Clytoctantes atrogularis)!

06/07/2019

Ocellated Crake (Micropygia schomburgkii)... this one is hot off the press, taken just this morning!

03/07/2019

Semicollared Puffbird (Malacoptila semicincta)
A specialty of the south-western Amazon, and not an easy bird to find anywhere, but particularly difficult to see in Brazil. We had a great encounter with a very well-behaved individual at the Ramal do Noca west of Rio Branco in Acre state during a just-finished tour across the Brazilian Amazon. This indiscreet denizen of low levels in the forest interior is a great prize for any tour, and was definitely the highlight of our final morning.

23/05/2019

One of the most beautiful parrots of the Guianan Shield forests -- fairly common in the Manaus area -- the lovely Caica Parrot!

https://youtu.be/kNQYAC1UV8c

An adult Caica Parrot filmed on August 30th, 2017 on the Ramal do Tucumanduba east of Presidente Figueiredo, Amazonas state, Brazil. Um adult da curica-caica...

24/01/2019

"10 Year Challenge", showing the fantastic transformation at SAVE Brasil's Pedra da Anta reserve in the hills of the Serra do Urubu in Pernambuco. At Birding Mato Grosso we support SAVE Brasil's conservation efforts -- including projects such as this one -- with a direct cash donation per every client we receive on our tours. We are very proud of this partnership, and hope to be able to support SAVE Brasil's projects, with your help, for many years to come!

Nós, da SAVE Brasil, acreditamos que em 10 anos as mudanças também puderam ser boas. Ao longo desses anos, conseguimos restaurar 40 ha de floresta, garantindo a sobrevivência de espécies endêmicas e ameaçadas da Mata Atlântica do Nordeste. Aos nossos apoiadores durante essa jornada, nosso muito obrigado pela confiança!

16/05/2018

Our South-east Brazil tours all include a visit to the coast of southern São Paulo or northern Paraná states to look for the endemic and endangered Red-tailed Parrot (Amazona brasiliensis). Last month we visited a roost area where we were treated to perhaps the closest views I've ever had of the species! Habitat destruction for development and ongoing nest poaching pressure for the illegal pet trade continue to threaten this species, which has an extremely limited range and depends on both restinga and mangrove forests.

16/05/2018

One of the absolute highlights of a recent custom tour across south-east and north-east Brazil was this exquisite Rufous-faced Crake, one of the rarest and least known rails in the Americas. Our friend Cal Martins located this bird in his home town of Dourado in the interior of São Paulo state, and since our first visit to the site with a group in 2015 Cal has 'trained' this individual to perform spectacularly. Possibly the bird of a trip, which is no mean feat when the competitors for the title included Blue-eyed Ground-Dove, Pinto's Chachalaca, Red-tailed Parrot, Black-hooded Antwren, and Orange-bellied Antwren.

14/03/2018

Please watch this beautiful but chilling video on the Campos Amazonicos National Park, located the southern Amazon in the states of Amazonas and Rondônia. We visit the park on our Rio Roosevelt and Remote Southern Amazon tours, and it is truly a special place for birds and biodiversity. Unfortunately, as we saw last October when we discovered an clandestine illegal logging operation destroying our best site for Rondônia Bushbird during a custom tour, the area is under attack from loggers, ranchers, and hydroelectric projects. Unless things change soon, we will all be hearing more and more about the accelerating destruction of the Brazilian Amazon...

English video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLyacr1GLQ8

Vídeo em Português: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-wvcAQH5Y8

This video shows a little about the Campos Amazonicos National Park highlighting its potentialities and management challenges. It is a protected area with in...

05/03/2018

Yet another option for birders and nature lovers who want to visit Brazil's Southern Amazon... Pousada Salto Thaimaçu has a brand new canopy tower and a bird list exceeding 500 species!

Mais uma opção para os passarinheiros e naturalistas procurando conhecer a Amazônia brasileira meridional... a Pousada Salto Thaimaçu, com uma torre de observação de 40 metros e uma lista de aves ultrapassando as 500 espécies!

19/02/2018

http://fflorestal.sp.gov.br/ave-considerada-extinta-no-estado-de-sao-paulo-e-redescoberta-no-parque-estadual-serra-do-mar/

AMAZING NEWS... the rediscovery of the critically endangered Brazilian Merganser in the state of São Paulo. The last state record? 197 years ago!!! And less than 150 kilometres from São Paulo itself, the most populous city in South America.

Texto: Aline Rezende - Foto: Fabiana Pereira Esta é a segunda vez que a ave é registrada no Estado de São Paulo. A primeira vez foi há quase dois séculos.