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Araripe

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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

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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

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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.

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Ubajara National Park

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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...

Ciro Albano - NE Brazil Birding Guide

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I’m a ornithologist, bird photographer and birdwatching guide from NE Brazil. I hope you like the photos and decide to come birding in NE Brazil – the land of the contrasts!...