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Federal District Inc Brasilia

Brasilia Tapaculo Scytalopus novacapitalis © Tomas Sigrist http://www.avisbrasilis.com.br

The Federal district including Brasília is a state in the Central West 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.

useful reading

Books, CDs, DVDs etc.

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

reserves

Reserva Ecológica do IBGE

http://www.recor.org.br/
Cerrado constitui o segundo maior bioma/domínio morfoclimático do Brasil e da América do Sul ocupando mais de 200.000.000 hectares e abrigando um rico patrimônio de recursos naturais renováveis adaptados às condições climáticas, edáficas e píricas que determinam a sua existência. O Cerrado é uma savana tropical na qual uma vegetação rasteira, formada principalmente por gramíneas, coexiste com árvores e arbustos esparsos.

Reserva Particular do Patrimônio Natural

http://www.ibama.gov.br/siucweb/rppn/
As RPPNs existem desde 1.990, através de um programa do Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais Renováveis - Ibama. Trata-se de uma iniciativa que visa estimular os proprietários particulares a somar esforços na conservação da rica diversidade biológica brasileira.

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!

1995 [May] - R.W.Goldbach

http://maybank.tripod.com/SouthAmerica/Brazil-04-05-95.htm
Bird observations done during visits to the Pantanal, Brasilia and Parque Nacional Itatiaia, in connection to a business trip.

1997 [October] - Peter Lonsdale

http://maybank.tripod.com/SouthAmerica/Brazil-10-97.htm
I cashed in some frequent-flyer miles for a seat on Delta`s new service to Sao Paulo and Rio, and 10days solo birding in Brazil (October 3 - 12); with 3 days each in the Pantanal, at Chapada and at Itatiaia, plus 1day at Brasilia. Though I have some experience of neotropical birding in western South America, Central America, and Mexico, this was my first time in Brazil, so about 75% of the 300 species I identified were lifers. Of course, at these fabled sites finding new birds is no problem, but identifying many of them is, in the absence of any Brazilian field guide or an experienced human guide (I prefer to pick my own way around). My ID aids were Dunning`s Birds of South America, a photo aid...; the relevant pages of Forrester`s invaluable Birding Brazil, especially his site checklists; b+w xeroxes of much of Narosky and Yzurieta`s Birds of Argentina and Uruguay; and the notes which I made to check against my Ridgely and Tudor (Birds of South America, v I and II) and HBW (v1-3); which I left at home.

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