ATLANTIC FOREST, BRAZIL
Aug 28-Sept 11, 2017
Photo Tour: This photo tour focuses on photographing the prolific birdlife of the Atlantic Rainforest of Brazil. It's my favorite location to photograph a variety of toucans, tanagers, parakeets and many more birds which come to feeders. In addition to several locations with excellent feeders we will stay in a former monastery converted to hotel which attracts Maned Wolves with food most evenings. This is also a good tour for monkeys and we will keep our eyes open for other mammal species.
Leader: Nate Chappell and a local Brazilian photographer and bird guide.
Number of Participants: Maximum of 6 photographers, 10 total participants
Cost: $5,900 per person, $500 single supplement, $5,400 Nonphotographer spouse/companion. Deposit to reserve your spot $1,500, remainder due 90 days before the tour starts. This includes all lodging, meals, transportation, guiding, park fees and in country flights.
Accommodation: The accommodation on this tour ranges from basic but comfortable (hot showers, en suite bathrooms) in Intervales, Toucan's Trail and Caraca to very nice at Hotel de Ype and in Ubatuba.
Itinerary:
Aug 28th - Arrival to Sao Paulo, Brazil. Most flights arrive in the morning after which we will meet up with our guides and drive to Intervales State Park. We will have a bit of time for photography in the afternoon.
Aug 29th - We will spend most of the day at Intervales State Park. Some elusive birds come in to a feeder here including Solitary Tinamou, Spot-winged Wood Quail and crakes. We may have a look for the endangered Southern Wooly Monkey here. Late afternoon transfer to Toucan's Trail.
Aug 30-Aug 31 - 2 full days of bird photograph at Toucan's Trail. Their feeders attract up to 4 species of toucans, beautiful tanagers, Blond-crested and Yellow-fronted Woodpeckers, Plain and Maroon-bellied Parakeets and more. The birds are so tame here that if you hold up a banana, many tanagers will land on your hand, we also had 2 species of toucan and Blond-crested Woodpecker come to our hands here. They have a blind which attracts difficult birds like Brown Tinamou and Ruddy Quail Dove. There are trails to explore in the forest with the guide as well.
Sep 1st - We will spend the morning photographing at Toucan's Trail, then in the after noon we will return to Sao Paulo and spend the night in a hotel near the airport.
Sep 2nd - We will take a morning flight to Belo Horizonte and then drive to Sanctuario de Caraca where we will photograph in the afternoon.
Sep 3rd-5th - 3 full days of photography at Sanctuario de Caraca. The Santctuario is most well known for the evening visits of Maned Wolves, we will attempt to photograph them in the late afternoon as they get ready to enter the buildings complex. In addition to the wolves there are Masked Titi Monkeys. As far as birds spectacular species such as Swallow-tailed Cotinga and Hyacinth Visorbearer are possible, while a good selection of antbirds and tanagers are present. Guans come to feed at food left inside the monastery grounds.
Sep 6th - We will return to the Belo Horizonte airport in the morning then fly back to Sao Paulo. From Sao Paulo we will drive to Hotel de Ype near Itataia National Park and photograph at the excellent feeders there in the afternoon.
Sep 7th-9th - We will have 3 full days photographing both at the feeders at Hotel de Ype and within Itataia National Park. The feeders here attract many toucans, tanagers and hummingbirds. In the National Park we will explore areas accessible by our van ranging in elevation from 2000 to 8000 feet giving us a great variety of species possible. Accommodation: Hotel de Ype
Sep 10th - After morning photography at the feeders and breakfast we will transfer to the Ubatuba area. There is a special feeding station here which produces large numbers of hummingbirds including two spectacular ones, the Saw-billed Hermit and the Festive Coquette. We will spend the afternoon there. Accommodation: A nice hotel in Ubatuba.
Sep 11th - We will have a full morning of photography at the feeding station, then after lunch return to Sao Paulo with bird photography stops on the way. Most flights leave in the evening so the majority of us will catch our flight home that evening, if your flight leaves the next morning our guides will check you into the hotel you have reserved near the airport. You will go home with a treasure of great bird photographs and a few mammal shots as well.
To see a gallery from this region see
Atlantic Rainforest Gallery
