Winning the armadillo lottery !
And here´s a new sighting for our mammal list: the southern naked-tailed armadillo (Cabassous unicinctus, tatu-de-rabo-mole), another very rare sighting !
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A special place in the heart of the Pantanal, Brazil´s ultimate wilderness outback. Second to none biodiversity in the Pantanal.
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| feeding on acuri nuts |
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This is one of the most amazing bird families in the Pantanal: the woodpeckers. The lineated woodpeckers (Dryocopus lineatus, Pica-pau-de-banda-branca) have strong bills for drilling and drumming on trees and long sticky tongues with bristles for extracting insects deep out of the wood. Listen to the drumming: MP3 by J.Minns
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| Pampas deer with fawn. |
| Father of the fawn. |
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Today we had another first sighting: a Hudsonian Godwit (Limosa haemastica, maçarico-de-bico-virado). The bird was seen in the Salina Mara (location) amongst thousands of stilts and sandpipers. Their breeding habitat is the far north near the tree line in northwestern Canada and Alaska, also on the shores of Hudson Bay, hence the name. Both parents look after the young birds, who find their own food and are able to fly down to Brazil (more than 9'000 Km) within a month of hatching.
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The southern screamers (Chauna torquata, tachã) are heavy (up to 5 Kg) birds that inhabit the ponds and marshes of the Pantanal. When they sense any danger they start a loud call that can be heard several kilometers away alarming every other animal of the present danger ... Click here to listen to their call.
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| Photo by Adrian Testa |
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| Sunbittern displaying its amazing wing-pattern. |
| A female sungrebe hiding under branches. |
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| Note all the purple-blue tonalities of their plumage... |
As always we would like to remember that seeing a cat is a rare moment and should not be expected ... This young male and an associated female were seen literally just around the corner in Fazenda Barranco Alto´s "RPPN das Onças" (a private reserve). It´s a young male in stunning shape. The mysteriously dark background is typical of the Rio Negro, one of the Pantanal´s most pristine rivers. |
| Young male jaguar. |
Mother giant otter bringing one baby at a time down to the water. |
| All giant otters come to groom the little one ... |
| After parental caring comes feeding! |
| Ending up with a well-deserved siesta ! |
| Dominant male. |
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| Female with baby on the back. |
| A successful early morning hunt ... |