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Ceara

Bearded Bellbird Procnias averano © Tomas Sigrist http://www.avisbrasilis.com.br

Ceará is a state in the North East region of Brazil.

Below are some of its top attractions and websites to the reserves and many places to stay where birding is an option. We welcome a proper introduction to this page from someone who knows the area well.

top sites

Araripe

This is the mecca for the Araripe Manakin Antilophia bokermanni. In the town of Barbalha ask for the Nascente do Farias, a swimming and picnic spot about 10km west of the town. The manakins are in the trees along the two streams that flow from the spring at the foot of the hill.

Baturité

These 800m high hills south of Fortaleza have some interesting birds. In the private forest behind the Hotel Remanso can be found Gould`s Toucanet Selenidera gouldii, Buff-breasted Tody-tyrant Hemitriccus mirandae and the distinctive race of Rufous Gnateater Conopophaga lineata cearae.

Ubajara

The national park with a cable car to a waterfall at the bottom is spectacular. In the park and in the forest remnant behind the IBAMA headquarters (between Ubajara and Tianguá) we saw Hooded Gnateater Conopophaga roberti and Buff-breasted Tody-tyrant Hemitriccus mirandae. There is good caatinga west of Tianguá, near the Piauí border, where we found the normal specialites of this habitat, including Broad-tipped Hermit Phaethornis gounellei and Great Xenops Megaxenops parnaguae.

contributor

Jeremy Minns
(São Paulo)
jeremyminns@uol.com.br

useful reading

Books, CDs, DVDs etc.

See the main Brazil page for guides etc. covering the whole country...

museums

Universidade Federal do Ceará

http://www.ufc.br/main/

reserves

Ubajara National Park

http://www.brazil.org.uk/page.php?cid=305&offset=3
The smallest of the 35 national parks of Brazil, covering an area of 563 hectares, the greatest treasure of the Ubajara National Park, in Ceará, is the Ubajara grotto. Set in a hillside in the Ibiapaba mountains, 320 kilometres from Fortaleza, the grotto has impressive stalactite and stalagmite formations, the result of nature`s patient work with limestone and water over many thousands of years - each centimetre of crystallised growth takes three years to form...

trip reports

Travelling Birder
http://www.travellingbirder.com
The Travellingbirder.com birding trip report search engine guides you to 7,000+ birding trip reports on the Internet. You can search for trip reports from a specific country and time of year. Not all these reports are in English. So, if you can’t find the trip report you want on this Fatbirder page… give them a try!

Birds of the Caatinga - The Avifauna of the Interior of Ceará

http://www.birds-caatinga.com/
Photos, voice recordings and notes about the bird species in the caatinga and tropical dry forests of Ceará, Brazil. Study sites: "Reserva Ecologica Mãe-da-Lua", and "Fazenda Canaã"...

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