Brazilian wild birds brazil 75. There are fantastically colorful plentiful and varied birds in almost every region of brazil making the country a major destination for birding trips. Nesting is during july december in large tree cavities and on cliffs. Brazilian mergansersmergus octosetaceus the brazilian merganser mergus octosetaceus is a duck in the typical merganser genus. Two eggs are usually laid but only one normally fledged.
A few still occur in easternmost bolivia and northeast paraguay. The more powerful your binoculars the better. The rufous bellied thrush is the national bird of brazil. Ema found in the cerrado and pantanal.
Currently some 2500 to 5000 wild birds are estimated as remaining in the wild with the vast majority in brazil mostly in the pantanal region. The avifauna of brazil include a total of 1806 confirmed species of which 235 are endemic. Birds of brazil is home to an impressive number of species of birds that vary from residents that stay all year around to breeding birds that spend a good part of the growing season in brazil to raise their young to wintering birds who like to spend a good part of the northern winter in brazil. Brazil has one of the richest bird diversities in the world.
The pantanal is a vast expanse of wetlands which straddles the borders of brazil paraguay and bolivia and is without question the best place to spot wild animals in the whole of south america and therefore the best place to spot wildlife and animals on a brazil holiday. It is one of the six most threatened waterfowl in the world with possibly fewer than 250 birds in the wild and none kept in captivity. Ixodidae as ectoparasites of brazilian wild. It grows to 14m tall and weighs some 30kg.
Four have been introduced by humans 70 are rare or vagrants and four are extinct or extirpated.