JP,
good catch ! Congratulations to launch this thread !

I remember about the one at UD !

Well, we have a lot of beatiful and astonish birds to watch in Brazil !

The Brazilians Birdwatchers are agruped in Yahoo, Orkut, Linkedin, and so on.

There are planned touristic trips to cover this enjoyable activity across the country.

There are a truested chain of birdwatchers here, mainly specialists and scientists which keep a frequent schedule to cover all months of the year and many important biomas in Brazil, just to do it.

Last year we had the great surprise to discover seven new birds species never found, two are discovered by birdwatchers, and subsequently investigated and described by the scientists. It was amazing !

Below some links about it in Brazil:

http://www.birding.com.br/

http://www.pousadaparaiso.com.br/birdwatching.htm

http://www.birdwatching.org.br/birdwatching/index.htm

http://www.fazendabarrancoalto.com.br/en/birdwatching.html

http://www.avesderapinabrasil.com/birdwatching.htm

http://www.fozecoturismo.com.br/birdwatching-puertoiguazu.html

http://www.birdingbraziltours.com/

http://www.vidasolemar.com.br/servicos/levant...sol_e_mar_Imbituba_SC.pdf

http://www.trilhaseaventuras.com.br/atividade...id=215&id_atividade=9

http://www.itamambuca.com.br/arqs_php/estrutura.php?sessao=birdWatching

http://www.pousadaparaiso.com.br/ingles/birdwatching.htm

http://www.ubatubabrazil.com.br/holidays/birdwatching.htm

http://www.parquedozizo.com.br/site/index.php...e&id=57&Itemid=61

http://www.sbe.com.br/sbenoticias/SBENoticias_112.pdf

http://www.biositu.com.br/

Brinktastee,
I don't live more in Sao Paulo (a crazy and huge city, believe me !), but have a summer house near from (100km), were I living for at least half of year. You are welcome when came to Brazil. Specially here.

I used to watch a lot of birds during my Sao Paulo times, once there are many places to do it (The Zoo Park, USP University park, a lot of municipality parks, Ibirapuera Park, The Atlantic Forest, The Bandeirantes route, The Fruits circuit, Lake Interlagos, Billings Dam, Japi Mountains, Serra do Mar Mountains, and so on).

The best book to have to do it in Sao Paulo or any other Brazilian city near of the Atlantic ocean cost, is called BIRDS OF GREATER SAO PAULO - Field Guide (Guia de Campo AVES DA GRANDE SAO PAULO, in Portuguese).

It is a great bilingual English-Portuguese softcover book, very useful and complete as pocket guide, which contain around 300 pages, with 273 beatiful pictures and short descriptions of a sample of some birds that we can find in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil, many are species that you can find in many places of South America.

You can buy one in the website:

http://www.avesefotoseditora.com.br/#/Livros/

http://www.avesfoto.com.br/ingles/index.asp

but all birds places in Brazil have this guide to sell (US$ 27 dollars).

I have one guide in my office to compare all birds that I watch on my windows. It is front of a small grove area (preserved by my farmer neigbour). It's amazing and exciting when I have time to dedicate to do it.

I registered more than 100 species using this simple pocket guide, since 2008 when bought this house to install my office/labs. Birdwatching is a happy and relax activity to anyone !

Jean Pierre never forget that the birds are also watching us:

Looks like at least one egg is starting to hatch!

One egg has a hole in it and "max" is pipping when she gets off the eggs. Should not be too long now before max eats his way out of that shell.
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