Birding in Mato Grosso and Brazil

Birdfinding information and guided tours in Amazonia and beyond

Custom Tours in Amazonia...

Birding Mato Grosso specializes in organizing birding tours in Mato Grosso and neighbouring states within the Brazilian Amazon. We can take you almost anywhere on request; if we don't know the area, we'll indicate someone who does! Some of our popular custom trip destinations include:
    • Cristalino Jungle Lodge
    • Pousada Rio Roosevelt
    • The Pantanal
    • Chapada dos Guimarães
    • Pousada Rio Azul
    • The Araguaia valley for the Bananal endemics
    • Vila Bela da Santíssima Trindade

... and throughout Brazil.     

Birding Mato Grosso is proud to present a broad range of destinations for custom tours throughout Brazil. While Mato Grosso and the Amazon basin is our focus, we are experienced leading tours to the Atlantic forests of Southeast Brazil, the endemic-packed Northeast, the Araucaria forests and incredible wetlands of the extreme South, and the cerrado of Interior Brazil.

We are happy to design and lead custom tours tailored to your wants and needs to any of the above regions.


   
Fixed departure tours - 2010

These tours are ideal for birders who enjoy the structure and peace of mind of an organized birding tour with a professional guide who lives in the country. Our fixed departure trips tend to stay at comfortable lodges with good birding from the doorstep of your room. Departures are guaranteed with just one participant for tours in Mato Grosso and Pará.


Tours by month:
 
OCTOBER 2010 - Brazilian Cerrado and the Mighty Araguaia

 

MAY 2010

Southern Amazonia: Cristalino Jungle Lodge and the Rio Azul
03 - 14 May 2010

This set departure tour offers a complete immersion into the Southern Amazonian avifauna. We dedicate the better part of two weeks to 'cleaning up' on the large number of target species endemic to this part of the Amazon basin. Our destinations are two peaceful, comfortable lodges situated on small black and clear-water rivers within large tracts of incredible bird-rich forest.

Key species: Zigzag Heron, Bald Parrot, 6 species of macaw including Hyacinth, Kawall's Amazon, Crimson-bellied Parakeet, Red-fan Parrot, Harpy Eagle, Cryptic Forest-Falcon, Razor-billed Curassow, Red-throated Piping-Guan, Dark-winged Trumpeter, Crested Owl, Red-necked Aracari, Pavonine Quetzal, Crimson Topaz, Tapajos Hermit, Rufous-necked and Brown-banded Puffbirds, Black-girdled Barbet, Chestnut-throated Spinetail, Point-tailed Palmcreeper, Yellow-browed, Bare-eyed and Banded Antbirds, Black-spotted Bare-eye, "Snethlage's" Gnateater, Flame-crested, Snow-capped, Fiery-capped and Black Manakins, Cinnamon Manakin-Tyrant, Pale-bellied Mourner, Amazonian Royal Flycatcher, Tooth-billed Wren, Guianan Gnatcatcher, Fulvous-crested Tanager, Yellow-shouldered Grosbeak and much, much more...
Minimum 01 participant(s)
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JUNE 2010

Pousada Rio Roosevelt: Comfort in the Amazon
02 - 11 June 2010

There is little doubt that the Pousada Rio Roosevelt is the most luxurious of a handful of excellent lodges in the southern Brazilian Amazon. Spacious cabins are sensibly equipped with hot water showers, air-conditioning, and a bar fridge stocked with copious amounts of water, soft drinks and ice cold beer. The veranda of each cabin looks out onto a white sand beach, at the edge of which flows the famed Rio Roosevelt, its waters still foamy and broiling after crashing over the impressive rapids just above the lodge. Pristine Amazon rainforest stretches away from the river in all directions farther than the eye can see, beyond even the limits of imagination. This idyllic setting is a naturalist’s paradise. While the tranquility of the place is such that you could easily spend the week on your private front porch, or in the air-conditioned restaurant/lounge reading a book, we’ll spend most of our time investing hard work in the field to reap some of the greatest avian rewards in all of South America...


Key species: Razor-billed Curassow, Zigzag Heron, White-browed Hawk, Harpy Eagle, Cryptic Forest-Falcon, Dark-winged Trumpeter (common), Crimson-bellied Parakeet, Kawall’s Amazon, Pavonine Quetzal, Blue-necked Jacamar, Rufous-necked Puffbird, Black-girdled Barbet, Gould’s Toucanet, Bamboo and Glossy Antshrike, Rondonia Bushbird, Ferruginous-backed Antbird, White-breasted Antbird, Pale-faced Antbird, Chestnut-belted and Black-bellied Gnateaters, Rusty-belted Tapaculo, Hoffmanns’ Woodcreeper, Buff-cheeked Tody-Flycatcher, Black-necked Red-Cotinga, Pompadour Cotinga, Snow-capped Manakin (abundant), White-browed Purpletuft, Tooth-billed Wren and Yellow-shouldered Grosbeak. There is also at least one undescribed species of antbird which occurs here in addition to another pair of undescribed antbird taxa which may be described to the species level but could be ‘only’ subspecies.

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NOVEMBER 2010

Southern Amazonia: Cristalino Jungle Lodge and the Rio Azul
07 - 18 November 2010

This set departure tour offers a complete immersion into the Southern Amazonian avifauna. We dedicate the better part of two weeks to 'cleaning up' on the large number of target species endemic to this part of the Amazon basin. Our destinations are two peaceful, comfortable lodges situated on small black and clear-water rivers within large tracts of incredible bird-rich forest.

Key species: Zigzag Heron, Bald Parrot, 6 species of macaw including Hyacinth, Kawall's Amazon, Crimson-bellied Parakeet, Red-fan Parrot, Harpy Eagle, Cryptic Forest-Falcon, Razor-billed Curassow, Red-throated Piping-Guan, Dark-winged Trumpeter, Crested Owl, Red-necked Aracari, Pavonine Quetzal, Crimson Topaz, Tapajos Hermit, Rufous-necked and Brown-banded Puffbirds, Black-girdled Barbet, Chestnut-throated Spinetail, Point-tailed Palmcreeper, Yellow-browed, Bare-eyed and Banded Antbirds, Black-spotted Bare-eye, "Snethlage's" Gnateater, Flame-crested, Snow-capped, Fiery-capped and Black Manakins, Cinnamon Manakin-Tyrant, Pale-bellied Mourner, Amazonian Royal Flycatcher, Tooth-billed Wren, Guianan Gnatcatcher, Fulvous-crested Tanager, Yellow-shouldered Grosbeak and much, much more...
Minimum 01 participant(s)
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