Birds in Pipa Brazil

Birds in Pipa:




Brazil is an amazing place that has one of the richest bird diversities in the world. There are many birds you can see in Pipa, their wide colour range is amazing and what is the most surprising thing - there are many kind of birds that are still to be discovered! On our web site we present most seen species.

Cracidade

Rusty-margined Guan (Penelope superciliaris) in Brazil called Jacupemba is described in the literature as having the upper wing coverts and the secondaries edged rufous or ochraceous. This turkey looking bird can be usually found in the dry regions and for that reason is very popular here in Northern Brazil and Pipa.
These rather large birds have predominately brown feathers and relatively small heads in comparison with body size. Very often they live on trees where they build their nests and lay 2-3 large eggs.
Rusty-margined Guans are primarily vegetarians eating mostly fruit and berries, some flowers and buds, insects and worms. Guans really like to eat ripe coffee cherries, they will live in or near coffee farms where coffee is grown in forest-like conditions.
They are particularly vocal and their fairly long tailed  may be an aide to navigating their largely arboreal existence. New born Jacupemba have an instinct to immediately climb and seek and are able to fly  within days of hatching.
Body lengths of rusty-margined guans are typically 65 to 95 centimetres. Its closest relatives are probably the piping-guans, Aburria. These chicken-like forest birds are strictly forest birds, preferring primary forest.
There are 15 species of guans in the genus Penelope. Guans are very important in tropical ecosystems because of their role in dispersing seeds in the forests in which they live.

Fregatiade

Magnificent Frigatebird (Fregata magnificens) in Brazil called Fragata-comum. Frigatebirds are the only seabirds where the male and female look strikingly different. Males are all black however scapular feathers produce a purple iridescence when they reflect sunlight. They also have a scarlet throat pouch which inflates like a balloon in the breeding season. Females are also black, but with a white breast and lower neck sides, a brown band on the wings and a blue eye ring. Both male and female are 89–114 cm = 35–44.9 inches long with a 217–224 cm = 85.4–88.2 inch wingspan. Weight 1000–1900 g = 35.3–67 oz. Average ground speed of 10 km/hour. They are able to climb up to 2500 m. Fregata magnificens silent in flight, makes various rattling sounds at its nest.
A long-winged, fork-tailed bird of tropical oceans, the Magnificent Frigatebird is an agile flier that eats mainly fish, snatches food off the surface of the ocean and steals food from other birds. They spend days and nights on the wing.
The breeding period is exceptionally long and young fledglings are often still being fed by the female at one year of age. Feeding range while breeding includes shallow water within lagoons, coral reefs, and deep ocean out of sight of land.

Ardeidae

Cattle Egret (Bulbucus Ibis) in Brazil called Garça-Vequira. A medium size white heron of pastures and roadsides and sturdy yellow bill. It has dark legs and feet, swollen throat and rather short, thick neck for a heron. The sexes are similar, but the male is marginally larger and has slightly longer breeding plumes than the female; juvenile birds lack coloured plumes and have a black bill.
Bulbucus Ibis is 46–56 cm = 18–22 inches long with 88–96 cm = 35–38 inches wingspan and weights 270–512 g = 9.5–18.1 oz.
You will see it more in the grass than in water following cattle, horses, and tractors to catch the insects they stir up. In the breeding season nests in colonies, usually near the water and often with other wading birds.
During the breeding season they develop orange-buff plumes on the back, breast, crown and the bill, legs and irises become bright red for a brief period prior to pairing.

Great Egret (Ardea Alba) in Brazil called Garça-Branca-Grande. It's the largest egret in the Old World, and thus has garnered the name Great White Egret. This large, all white heron has long, black legs and feet. Its yellow bill is long, stout, and straight.
Flies with neck pulled back in S-curve. The Great Egret is a large bird with all-white plumage that can reach one meter in height and weigh up to 950 grams = 2.1 lb. Males and females are identical in appearance; juveniles look like non-breeding adults.
The Great Egret feeds in shallow water or drier habitats, feeding mainly on fish, frogs, small mammals, and occasionally small birds and reptiles, spearing them with its long, sharp bill most of the time by standing still and allowing the prey to come within its striking distance of its bill which it uses as a spear. It will often wait motionless for prey, or slowly stalk its victim.

Snowy Egret (Egretta Thula) in Brazil called Garcinha-Branca. A small, active white heron, the Snowy Egret is found in small ponds as well as along the ocean shore. Its black legs and yellow feet quickly identify it. This medium-sized, slender all-white heron, it has black legs and yellow feet. Long thin neck, bill, and legs. The area of the upper bill, in front of the eyes, is yellow but turns red during the breeding season, when the adults also gain recurved plumes on the back, making for a "shaggy" effect.
Adults are typically 61 centimetres = 24 in  long and weigh 375 grams = 13.2 oz.
They nest in colonies, often with other waders, usually on platforms of sticks in trees or shrubs. Their flat, shallow nests are made of sticks and lined with fine twigs and rushes. The young leave the nest in 20 to 25 days and hop about on branches near the nest before finally departing.

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