Avistar 2012

I've recently had a fabulous few days in Sao Paulo, Brazil. My mission was to be keynote speaker at the Avistar 2012 - an annual Brazilian birdfair organised by Brazilian ornithologist, Guto Carvalho. I met a host of fantastic conservationists including the wonderful Martha Argel and Betty Petersen who took me under her wing.

Seeing as winter was rapidly approaching the birding wasn't as great as it could have been. so for those who like lists I have compiled all the species that I saw or heard during my four day flying visit.

I shall return!

A view of Sao Paulo & below TUB with American Bird Association's Betty Petersen

TUB with Anelisa Magalhaes

TUB with Martha Argel

TUB with AVISTAR organisor Guto Carvalho

A view from an urban park

Urban birding in Sao Paulo

Checking for a Rufous-browed Peppershrike

Those pink things are actually Scarlet Ibises!

I need a proper camera!

Magnificent Frigatebird

Neotropic Cormorant

White-necked Heron

Great Egret

Little Blue Heron

Snowy Egret

Cattle Egret

Striated Heron

Yellow-crowned Night Heron

Black-crowned Night Heron

White-faced Whistling Duck

White-cheeked Pintail

Scarlet Ibis

Roseate Spoonbill

Turkey Vulture

Black Vulture

Osprey

Roadside Hawk

Short-tailed Hawk

Southern Caracara

Yellow-headed Caracara

American Kestrel

Common Moorhen

Southern Lapwing

Semipamated Plover

Greater Yellowlegs

Kelp Gull

Royal Tern

‘Cayenne’ Tern

Black Skimmer

Feral Pigeon

Picazuro Pigeon

Ruddy Ground Dove

Blue-winged Parrotlet

Plain Parakeet

Squirrel Cuckoo

Smooth-billed Ani

Burrowing Owl

White-collared Swift

Sapphire-spangled Emerald

Ringed Kingfisher

Amazon Kingfisher

Green Kingfisher

White-spotted Woodpecker

Narrow-billed Woodcreeper

Rufous Hornero

Yellow-olive Flycatcher

Masked Water Tyrant

Short-crested Flycatcher

Great Kiskadee

Tropical Kingbird

White-rumped Swallow

Blue-and white Swallow

Southern House Wren

Chalk-browed Mockingbird

Rufous-bellied Thrush

Pale-breasted Thrush

Rufous-collared Sparrow

Saffron Finch

Brazilian Tanager

Sayaca Tanagar

Banaquit

Bicoloured Conebil

Golden-crowned Warbler

Rufous-browed Peppershrike

Epaulet Oriole

Shiny Cowbird