After attending the PRIMO 14 conference in Florianópolis in Southern Brazil, I travelled to the Pantanal region for a short safari visit. The Pantanal region is world famous for it's rich wildlife, especially for the bird fauna. Pantanal is covering an area with a size of about half of France, with vast wetland and marsh habitats, that are partly submerged under water in the wet season. More information on the Pantanal can be found at this link.
On this page some pictures from the trip can be seen. Enjoy.
Werner Piper is thanked for help with naming the dragonfly species.
The über-cool team ...
Pantanal landscape
More Pantanal landscapes
Pantanal activity
Pousada Piuval
Fishers
Fly-fishing
Striated heron Butorides striatus
Jaibiru stork Jabiru maguari
Toco toucan Ramphastos toco
Hyacinth macaw Anodorhynchus hyacintinus
Yellow-headed Caracara Milvago chimachima
Blue-crowned motmot Momotus momota
Might-safari - Collared anteater Tamandua tetradactyla
Night-safari - Capywara Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris
Red-rumped agouti Dasyprocta agouti
Black-capped capuccin monkey Cebus apella
Oversized bug (Belostomatidae sp.)
Lizard
Emu Rhea americana
Rowing boat trip
Caiman Cayman crocodilus yacare
Caiman baby
Transpantaneira road through the Pantanal
Transpantaneira waterhole
Termit team
Orthemis discolor
Erythrodiplax male dragonfly
Erythrodiplax female
Tableland landscape
More Tableland landscapes
The prianha fisher
South American coati (from Ihla Catherina) Nasua nasua
Mammals
Common name |
Scientific name |
| Fisher bat | Noctilionidae leporinus |
| Bat species | |
| Black howler monkey | Allouatta caraya |
| Black-capped capuccin monkey | Cebus apella |
| Marmoset monkey | Callithrix (Cebuella) pygmaea |
| Collared anteater | Tamandua tetradactyla |
| South American coati | Nasua nasua |
| Squirrels | |
| Pampas deer | Ozotocerus bezoarticus |
| Red-brocket deer | Mazama americana |
| Capywara | Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris |
| Brazilian rabbit | Sylvilagus brasiliensis |
Reptiles
Common name |
Scientific name |
| Caiman | Cayman crocodilus yacare |
| Lizars species | |
| Iguana | |
| Toads | |
| Treefrogs | |
| Snake unidentified |
Preliminary bird list
Common name |
Scientific name |
| Emu | Rhea americana |
| Neotropic cormorant | Phalacrocorax olivaceus |
| Black cormorant | |
| Anhinga | Anhinga anhinga |
| White-necked heron | Ardea cocoi |
| Great egret | Ardea alba |
| Snowy egret | Egretta thula |
| Capped egret | Pilherodius pileatus |
| Cattle egret | Bubulcus ibis |
| Whistlin egret | Syrigma sibilatrax |
| Rufescent tiger heron | Tigrisoma lineatum |
| Striated heron | Butorides striatus |
| Black-crowned night-heron | Nycticorax nicticorax |
| Yellow-crowned night-heron | |
| Little blue heron | Egretta caerulea |
| Limkin | Aramus guarauna |
| Jabiru stork | Jabiru mycvteria |
| American wood stork | Mycteria americana |
| Plumbeous ibis | Theristicus acudatus |
| Buff-necked ibis | Theristicus caerulescens |
| Bare-faced ibis | Phimosus infuscatus |
| Green ibis | |
| Southern screamer | Chauna torquata |
| Black-bellied whistling duck | Dendrocygna autumnalis |
| Brazilian duck | Amazonetta brasiliensis |
| Black vulture | Coragypus atratus |
| Turkey vulture | Cathartes aura |
| Snail kite | Rosthramus sociabilis |
| Black-collared hawk | Busarellus nigricollis |
| Savannah hawk | Heterospizias meridionalis |
| Crested caracara | Polyborus plancus |
| Yellow-headed caracara | Milvago chimachima |
| Roadside hawk | Buteo magnirostris |
| Bat falcon | Falco rufigularis |
| Spix 's guan | Penelope superficiliaris |
| Blue-troated pipig guan | Pipile cumanensis |
| Chaco chacalaca | Ortalis canicollis |
| Bare-faced curassow | Crax fasciolata |
| Gray-necked wood rail | Aramides cajanea |
| Red-legged seriema | Cariama cristata |
| Wattled jacana | Jacana jacana |
| Southern lapwing | Vanellus chilensis |
| Pied lapwing | Hoploxypterus cayanus |
| White-tipped dove | Leptotila verreauxi |
| Ruddy pigeon | Columba subvinacea |
| Blue and yellow macaw | Ara ararauna |
| Red and blue macaw | Ara macao |
| Hyacinthine macaw | Anodorhynchus hyacintinus |
| Turquoise parakeet | Amazona estevia |
| Monk parakeet | |
| Smooth-billed ani | Crotophaga ani |
| Guira cokoo | Guira guira |
| Squirrel cokoo | Piaya cayana |
| Burrowing owl | Speotyto cubicularia |
| Common potoo | Nyctibius griseus |
| Ringed kingfisher | Ceryle torquata |
| Amazon kingfisher | Chloroceryle amazonia |
| Green kingfisher | Chloroceryle americana |
| Black-fronted nunbird | Monasa nigrifrons |
| Toco toucan | Ramphastos toco |
| Blue-crowned motmot | Momotus momota |
| Campo flicker | Colaptes camestris |
| Yellow-crested woodpecker | |
| Narrow-billed woodcreaper | Lepidocolaptes angustirostris |
| Rufous cacholote | Pseudoseisura cristata |
| Mato Grosso Antbird | Cercomelanaria |
| Great kiskadee | Pitangus sulphuratus |
| Lesser kiskadee | Pitangus lictor |
| Purplish jay | Cyanocorax cyanomelas |
| Scarlet-headed blackbird | Amblyramphus holosericeus |
| Crested oropendula | Psarocolius decumanus |
| Red-billed cardinal | Paroaria coronata |
| Yellow-billed cardinal | Paroaria capitata |
| Saphran finch | |
| Wren |