A Look at the Birds of the Cerrado - Part 3

Wattled jacana (23 cm), Jacana jacana

White-backed stilt (38 cm), Himantopus melanurus

Southern lapwing (37 cm), Vanellus chilensis, in flight, with tiles decorated by the artist Athos Bulcão in the background at Parque da Cidade Sarah Kubitschek, in Brasilia.

Phaetusa simplex (43 cm)

African skimmer (50 cm), Rynchops niger, skimming along the surface with its flexible jaw open in search of fish and shrimp, at a speed of 23 mph.

American black vulture (56-74 cm), Coragyps atratus, an urban indicator species, avoids densely forested areas. It's the vulture most often seen in landfills 

Amazonian motmot (44 cm), Momotus momota. This beautiful bird has a unique tail with two reed-shaped tips, which, when it senses it is being watched, it moves sideways.  

Amazon kingfisher, Chloroceryle amazona< nests in tunnels dug 1.60 m deep into riverbanks.

Rufous-tailed jacamar (22 cm),Galbula ruficauda, a voracious insect predator, catching pair of butterflies Teleus urbanus, in the middle of mating.

 Swallow-winged puffbird (15 cm), Chelidoptera tenebrosa.

Collared crescent-chest (14 cm), Melanoparea torquata

Rufous gnateater (14 cm), Conopophaga lineata, its Portuguese name (chupa-dente) refers to the sound of someone sucking air through their upper teeth.

Streaked xenops (12 cm), Xenops rutilans, showing its peculiar upturned bill and jaw.

White-throated spadebill (10 cm),Platyrinchus mystaceus

Black-billed tityra (20 cm), Tityra cayana

Band-tailed manakin (13 cm), Pipra fasciicauda. Males show off to females during the mating season by repeating a series of characteristic movements.

Helmeted manakin (14 cm), Antilophia galeata, catching a spider. This beautiful and peculiar species lives in the riparian and gallery forests of Central Brazil.

(11 cm), Geositta poeciloptera, at risk of extinction due to loss of its habitat in the cerrado of central southern Brazil.

Sedge wren (9.5 cm), Cistothorus platensis. Increasing soybean and maize monoculture is threatening the population of this delicate species, through the loss of its habitat in grassland areas.

Masked gnatcatcher (11.5 cm), Polioptila dumicola

Yellowish pipit (13 cm), Anthus lutescens, a species that prefers areas with short grasses, where it catches insects on the ground walking or in short jumps.

Saffron-billed sparrow (16 cm), Arremon flavirostris

Ultramarine grosbeak (17 cm), Cyanoloxia brissonii, the prey of unthinking bird catchers, it has become rare in the wild.

Flavescent warbler (14 cm), Myiothlypis flaveola

Purple-throated fruitcrow (20-30 cm), Querula purpurata

Black-capped donacobius (23 cm), Donacobius atricapilla, a palustrine bird, always occurs near marshes.