CETREL & SAUIPE 
BRAZIL

region (near), (Compass)

Lat:00^o00´S/00^o00´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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