Birding Mato Grosso specializes in providing customized birding and natural history tours to Brazil, with a special emphasis on the Amazon rainforest and the cerrado savannas of the Brazilian Interior. We are committed to delivering quality tours based on the preferences of our clients.

Ongoing projects:

Harpy Eagle

Breeding biology of the Harpy Eagle Harpia harpyja in fragmented forest landscapes

Bald Parrot

Avifaunal inventory of the São Benedito II river (Rio Azul)

Pauraque

Surveys of a nocturnal bird community in a fragmented Amazonian forest landscape

Cattle Egrets

Seasonal attendance of an urban roost by Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis

Adelphobates galactonotus

Production of a field guide to the anurans of the Alta Floresta region:
Photos of Amazonian frogs and toads

Peer-reviewed journal articles:

Davis, B.J.W. and S. Olmstead. 2010. Aves, Apodiformes, Trochilidae, Topaza pella (Linnaeus, 1758): A range reinforcement in Amazonian Brazil. Check List 6(3): 397-399.

Davis, B.J.W. 2010. Squacco Heron Ardeolla ralloides in the Fernando de Noronha archipelago: the fourth Brazilian record with comments on the prospects for a colonisation event. Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia 18(1): 61-63.

Lees, A.C., Davis, B.J.W., Oliveira, A.V.G., and Peres, C.A. 2008. Avifauna of a stucturally heterogeneous forest landscape in the Serra dos Caiabis, Mato Grosso, Brazil: a preliminary assessment. Cotinga 29: 147-157.