Small bird perching on a fence wire with brown fence posts on either side. Its belly is a beautiful lemon-yellow colour merging into soft white plumage at the throat. The head, nape and upper back are slate-grey and its eyes are dark. Charcoal-grey wings have faint whitish wing bars.

I love #birds in general, but the ones that stroke my pleasure senses the most are the cute smaller ones like this #Dusky-cappedFlycatcher found along a fenced trail in a densely-forested area in central #Brazil. #AvesBrasil #BrazilBirds #BirdingInBrazil

Bright orange and black bird with white wing patches perched in a leafy shrub.

Still in the #Pantanal, this orange-backed troupial looks a bit like our local Bullock's oriole in BC. Same genus of birds-- #Icterus. The term "troupial" is from the French troupiale, meaning troop or flock, so named because of their penchant to gather. 🪶🌿🇧🇷 #BrazilBirds #AvesBrasil #BirdingInBrazil

Large heron standing in water with slate-grey plumage on its back and reddish-brown neck and head. Its beak is large and dagger-like and its face is yellow where the skin is exposed.

Large heron with coarse brown-barred plumage in this young bird. The bird is standing sideways to the photographer. Its bill and legs are dirty yellow to tan in colour.

From our #birding trip to #Brazil last August, the impressive #RufescentTigerHeron is named for its reddish-brown neck and head and coarse barred pattern particularly seen in the juvenile bird (second image). 🪶🌿🇧🇷 #brazilbirds #avesbrasil #birdinginbrazil #pantanal

Dark green and white bird sporting a hefty pointed bill sitting on wooden fencing.

The Amazon kingfisher is a medium-sized #kingfisher found mostly in tropical lowlands from northern Mexico south to central Argentina. So happy to find this photogenic #bird perched by a shallow pond in the Pantanal region of Brazil last August.

#amazonkingfisher #birdinginbrazil #avesbrasil 🌿🪶🇧🇷

A bird sitting on a tree branch with white and black head and white throat, orange bill, greyish breast and flanks with hints of barring and scalloped rufous-brown on wings and back.

This character was found at the edge of the Brazilian Cerrado thanks to its loud whinnying song. I love its descriptive name--white-eared puffbird. Seems quite appropriate given its puffed-up appearance! 🪶🌿🇧🇷 #brazilbirds #avesbrasil #birdinginbrazil #whiteearedpuffbird

Plumbeous Ibis - Stocky grey-brownish bird, with a bushy neck feathers, a white forehead, pink legs, a dark orange eye and a long, decurved grey bill.

Buff-necked Ibis - A handsome bird with a grey decurved bill and having a bright buffy head and neck, brownish-red eyes, brownish-grey back, white sides and dark underparts.

Bare-faced Ibis - Bird with black plumage and readily distinguished from other species of ibises by its pink bare face and pink decurved bill. It's legs are greyish pink.

Green Ibis - Stocky bird with a decurved greenish bill, dark eyes, greenish-blue legs and feet, dark purple-green plumage, and a dull black belly.

Several different species of #Ibis were seen on our recent visit to the #Pantanal in #Brazil. Here's four of them distinguished by their large decurved bills, perfect for probing soft ground and mud for invertebrates and other small critters. ID in ALT. 🪶🌿🇧🇷 #brazilbirds #avesbrasil #birdinginbrazil