A very pretty bird, these Southern Lapwings could be found in various areas we visited. Usually on the ground, we saw at least one pair that seemed to be guarding a nest as they would be very aggressive to anyone who got too close to…
Category: General Wildlife
Like I said… there will be more tanagers… This pair of Brazilian Tanagers is certainly a very beautiful set of birds. I kind of like the photos on the barbed wire too… The bright red male is one of the first birds I saw when…
I got to photograph a number of different birds in the parrot family while in Brazil, but I think this Blue-winged Macaw might have been the most cooperative and photogenic. I tried to get some shots of it in flight to really show off its…
Rounding out this first set of tanagers (I am pretty sure there will be plenty more) is a pair of Burnished-buff Tanagers. They didn’t visit the fruit very many times, but I was lucky enough to get photos of both the male and female.
Another tanager and another visitor to the fruit we put out while in Teresópolis, this pair of Sayaca Tanagers were probably the most frequent visitor to the fruit, often chasing away other birds.
Samara had the idea to put some fruit out for the birds and one of the first visitors was this pair of Golden-chevroned Tanagers (Thraupis ornata). It is a species endemic to Brazil, so this is another nice find to add to my species list.
Black Capuchin Monkey or Macaco Prego Preto in Portugese (Sapajus nigritus) spotted in Parque Nacional da Serra dos Órgãos during one of our first hikes. We spotted a second one (the last two photos) but I did not get very good photos of it. In fact…
Samara spotted this pair of Green-backed Trogons or sometimes also called Amazonian White-tailed Trogons (Trogon viridis) on the property at our first Airbnb. We watched them for a bit and noticed that they appeared to be building a nest (I looked it up and they…
I got to see another species of Coati while I was in Brazil. Though they do look similar to the White-nosed Coati that I saw in Arizona, I think they are a different species. The encounter was pretty brief and the light was failing so…
Some Harbor Seals basking in the Californian sun.
This coyote hung out with me for a good amount of time… I was sitting in my car while it wandered back and forth in the fields on both sides of the dirt road I was on. Right up until some other guy pulled up…
Baby bison are called Red Dogs
I photographed these Sanderlings (at least I think they are Sanderlings) when I was in Panama City, Florida earlier this year…
Just an assortment of adult and juvenile Brown Pelicans from my trip to Mexico.
This pair of Barrow’s Goldeneyes was photographed back in the Grand Tetons National Park in 2023. I don’t know if this was a mating ritual or just some odd behavior I picked up in a couple of the photos.
