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Cuiaba River
The Pantanal
Wild Brazil
South America
The Boat-billed Flycatcher (Megarynchus pitangua) is a passerine bird. It is a large tyrant flycatcher, the only member, monotypic, of the genus Megarynchus.
It breeds in open woodland with some tall trees from Mexico south to Bolivia and Argentina, and through to Trinidad.
The nest, built by the female, is an open saucer of sticks. The typical clutch is two or three whitish eggs heavily blotched with brown. These are incubated mostly by the female for 17–18 days with a further 24 days to fledging.
Adult Boat-billed Flycatchers are one of the largest species of tyrant flycatcher, measuring 23 cm (9.1 in) long and weighing 70 g (2.5 oz).[2] The head is black with a strong white eyestripe and a concealed yellow crown stripe. The upperparts are olive-brown, and the wings and tail are brown with only faint rufous fringes. The underparts are yellow and the throat is white.
The massive black bill, which gives this species its English and generic names, is the best distinction from the similar Great Kiskadee, which also has more rufous tail and wings, and lacks the olive tone to the upperparts. The call is a strident trilled nya, nya, nya.
Boat-billed Flycatchers wait on a concealed perch high in a tree and sally out to catch insects in flight. They will also take invertebrates off the foliage and eat some berries. – Wikipedia
Cuiaba River
Private Ranch
The Pantanal
Brazil
South America
The nunbird image was taken on a private ranch along the Cuiaba River where they were helping to conserve the Hyacinth Macaws by providing them with their favorite palm trees and palm nuts. They were quite successful with a lot of the macaws coming back time after time.
The only time I saw a nunbird was at this ranch sitting on some wires.
The black-fronted nunbird (Monasa nigrifrons) is a species of bird in the Bucconidae family, the puffbirds.
It is found in Amazonian Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru; also regions of eastern and southeastern Brazil. Its natural habitats are subtropical and tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical and tropical swamps, and heavily degraded former forest.
The black-fronted nunbird has a black body and bright red-orange bill. It is found in small gregarious groups in lower to mid-level forests.
The black-fronted nunbird is found mostly in the Amazon Basin south of the Amazon River. It also occurs in two river regions further north: in the east between the confluence with the Xingu River westwards to the Tapajós River; and at the confluence of the Rio Negro and upstream on the Amazon.
It is also found in the Pantanal, but not the very southern portion. The IUCN has listed it as of Least Concern. - per Wikipedia
FUTEBOL/CAMPEONATO BRASILEIRO 2023 /GREMIO X CUIABA - ESPORTES - Lance da partida entre Gremio e Cuiaba disputada na noite deste domingo, na Arena Pantanal, em Cuiabá, em partida valida pela Campeonato Brasileiro 2023. FOTO: LUCAS UEBEL/GREMIO FBPA
The Pantanal
Brazil
South America
This image shows what the riverbanks of the Cuiaba River in the Pantanal look like from a boat. The terrain was very similar up and down the river with occasional beaches where the jaguars would come. This image also shows a jaguar mother and her cub in the distance.
I stayed on a floating hotel on the river during my stay there, and twice a day we would go out in boats which carried three or more photographers and a guide. I was in a boat with two other photographers in the middle of the river looking across towards the bank when I took this shot. There we would sit and watch for jaguar activity. All of the boats had a radio which was used to communicate information between the boats regarding animal sightings. When the alarm was raised, all of the boats would hurry to the location given. A great many times there were already boats at the location from other photography companies, and then we would have to jostle for position.
I was using my 150-500m lens most of the trip. A great many of my images from this trip were cropped to bring the animals closer, because most of the time we were not any closer to the river bank than we were to this one.
Cuiaba River
The Pantanal
Brazil
South America
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Since I don’t have many animal images from my visit to the National Parks in Utah, I will be separating every two landscape shots with one from my trip to Brazil in 2016. This is the first one.
On the Cuiaba River, these herons could be found about every quarter mile on the shoreline protecting their territories.
The cocoi heron (Ardea cocoi) is a species of heron in the family Ardeidae. It is common and widespread throughout most of South America including Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela. It is a non-breeding visitor to Trinidad and Tobago and a vagrant to the Falkland Islands and Tristan da Cunha. Its natural habitats are rivers, swamps, and freshwater lakes. - Wikipedia
I definitely don’t take enough scenery/habitat photos but the sunrise on the Cuiaba river when we went out looking for jaguars and other creatures on our Pantanal trip was just too nice to pass up. It was wonderful to start the day on a boat into the wild while looking at this.
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Cuiabana dance girl dance .... happy girl ... Do not let the popular party is over .. Turn ... turn this skirt and smile