A visit to the Doctor!

Greater Yellow-headed Vulture

Nightingale-Wren and Rufous-capped Nunlet join the list. This morning we birded Dr Haffer’s Trail in an area of bamboo forest. As we crept along the bamboo trail, Brad began whistling a slow meandering tune, a startlingly accurate imitation of Nightingale-Wren. So good was the imitation that the bird immediately appeared, although it shot past at high speed and it took us several minutes to actually get a good view of this tiny songster, the wren that is, not Brad! We also tracked down a Rufous-capped Nunlet sitting motionless high up in the canopy. The next highlight that we came across was a bizarre-looking Curve-billed Scythebill, a reddish-brown woodcreeper with an enormous decurved bill. A Crested Foliage-gleaner played hide-and-seek in a tangle of vines. The trail also gave us three more new birds: Manu Antbird, Rufous-necked Puffbird and Streaked Flycatcher. This afternoon’s birding took us back to the Bamboo Trail behind the lodge where we added Rufous-winged Antwren, Cocoa Thrush and Chestnut-throated Spinetail. We also had a brief encounter with an Ocelot as it popped out of the undergrowth onto the trail; not sure who was more surprised, him or us!
Bird species list: 2583
Posted 28th June, Cristalino Jungle Lodge, Alta Floresta, Brazil

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