CETREL & SAUIPE
BRAZIL
region (near), (Compass)
Lat:00o00´S/00o00´W ha topography msl
Protected/registered status
Best Time for visit (10th November, 2006)
Birding Site Guide
I visited Pedro Lima at his office at the CETREL petrochemical company and also accompanied him briefly to Sauipe where there is a new museum of natural history. The CETREL complex has many nest boxes ans also introduced populations of birds. One of the most important being the Golden-capped Parakeets. Sauipe also has an introduced population of endangered Cebus monkeys. I went there by by car but buses from Rio pass regularly. CETREL is near to Praia do Forte. Contact Pedro Lima for details. I saw 39 species including 3 lifers
Species seen
- Least Grebe Tachybaptus dominicus
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis Seen nearby
- Black Vulture Coragyps atratus
- Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
- Crested Caracara Caracara cheriway
- Yellow-headed Caracara Milvago chimachima
- Wattled Jacana Jacana jacana
- Southern Lapwing Vanellus chilensis
- Rock Pigeon Columba livia Introduced species Seen nearby
- Scaled Dove Columbina squammata
- Golden-capped Parakeet Aratinga auricapilla Endemic Near-threatened
- Plain Parakeet Brotogeris tirica Endemic Seen nearby
- Orange-winged Parrot Amazona amazonica
- Smooth-billed Ani Crotophaga ani
- Guira Cuckoo Guira guira
- Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl Glaucidium brasilianum Photographed
- Swallow-tailed Hummingbird Eupetomena macrourus Seen nearby
- Horned Sungem Heliactin bilopha Photographed
- Ringed Kingfisher Ceryle torquatus
- Green Kingfisher Chloroceryle americana Heard only
- Rufous Hornero Furnarius rufus
- Yellow-chinned Spinetail Certhiaxis cinnamomea Heard only
- Caatinga Cacholote Pseudoseisura cristata Endemic Possibly seen
- Masked Water-Tyrant Fluvicola nengeta
- Cattle Tyrant Machetornis rixosus
- Great Kiskadee Pitangus sulphuratus
- Tropical Kingbird Tyrannus melancholicus
- Gray-breasted Martin Progne chalybea
- House Wren Troglodytes aedon
- Tropical Mockingbird Mimus gilvus
- Pale-breasted Thrush Turdus leucomelas
- Sayaca Tanager Thraupis sayaca
- Burnished-buff Tanager Tangara cayana
- Yellow-bellied Seedeater Sporophila nigricollis
- White-throated Seedeater Sporophila albogularis Endemic
- Saffron Finch Sicalis flaveola
- Shiny Cowbird Molothrus bonariensis
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus Introduced species
Other Fauna
A total of -- species of mammals.
There are -- recorded species of amphibians and reptiles.
Flora
Author: Charles Hesse
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