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Santa Catarina

Blue-and-yellow Tanager Thraupis bonariensis © Tomas Sigrist http://www.avisbrasilis.com.br

Santa Catarina is a state in the South 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

Garuva

A very good site is near Garuva, 30km before Joinville. Turn left off the BR116 to Garuva and zero your odometer at the bus station (rodoviária). Turn left at the main cross roads, just after the bus station, and drive straight as a die out of town (not bearing left with the main road}. At km 15.5 there is a marsh where we saw Marsh Antbird Stymphalornis acutirostris and Restinga Tyrannulet Phylloscartes kronei.

At km 17 there is another marsh where we saw Stympha again and also had Spotted Bamboowren Psilorhamphus guttatus and Three-striped Flycatcher Conopias trivirgata. This is a good place to see forest birds with a scope as there are trees scattered about in the marsh and the forest edge is close. At km 26.3, turn left off the main road, doubling back somewhat, and at km 28.9 turn right over a low bridge over the Rio Cubatão. At km 31.6 a road loops up to the left through the forest to avoid a soft patch on the main road and you can walk this. Here you may see Kaempfer`s Tody-tyrant Hemitriccus kaempferi. We didn`t but others have had it here. In all we saw or heard 129 species in one morning, including Saw-billed Hermit Ramphodon naevius, Sombre Hummingbird Aphantochroa cirrhochloris, Crescent-chested Puffbird Malacoptila striata, Spot-backed Antshrike Hypoedaleus guttatus, Squamate Antbird Myrmeciza squamosa, São Paulo Tyrannulet Phylloscartes paulistus and Yellow-lored Tody-flycatcher Todirostrum poliocephalum, to mention only some of the endemics.

Joinville

Kaempfer`s Tody-tyrant was rediscovered at Salto do Piraí, just north of Joinville. The site is at the Santa Catarina electricity board (CELESC) generating plant near Vila Nova, at the foot of the Salto do Piraí waterfall. You may need to get permission from CELESC in Joinville to go there. Another recently confirmed site for this species is the Reserva Volta Velha at Itapoá, on the coast north east of Joinville.

São Joaquim

As one drives south Field Flicker Colaptes campestris campestroides, the southern form of Campo Flicker, starts to appear here, as does Chimango Caracara Milvago chimango. In the town we saw Long-tailed Cinclodes Cinclodes pabsti for the first time, and then again beside the road to Bom Jesus.

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 de Santa Catarina

http://www.ufsc.br/

reserves

Alto Itajaí

http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alto_Vale_do_Itajaí;
O Vale do Itajaí situa-se a leste do estado de Santa Catarina, que por sua vez localiza-se entre os Paralelos 25° 57` e 29° 29` Sul e os Meridianos 48° 21` e 53° 50` a Oeste de Greenwich. O Vale faz parte de uma região do Brasil onde ocorreu um intenso derramamento vulcânico há 250 milhões de anos atrás; em seu substrato rochoso é comum encontrarmos a ardósia, muito utilizada como piso decorativo. Esta rocha fragmenta-se facilmente e, no decorrer do tempo, formou-se precipícios com magníficas cachoeiras, algumas com 130m. Somente no município de Presidente Getúlio existem cerca de 140 cachoeiras.

Reserva Particular do Patrimônio Natural do Caraguatá

http://www.caraguata.com.br
...Since this Reserve is a significant fragment of a primitive forest, it represents a great potencial for the Flora and Fauna protection, and besides, an important center to recover the neighboring regions. The Environmental Police and IBAMA have been utilizing the Reserve to release regional wild animals which were caught in captivity. These animals are inicially kept in the Environmental Police seat for selection and proper treatment that enables them to reintegrate in their natural habitat. It is being considered the possibility of creating, in the future, a readaptation center for those animals in the Reserve as well...

Reserva Volta Velha

http://www.reservavoltavelha.com.br/
Well-known among birders around the world, the Volta Velha Reserve has become one of the most popular birding spots in southern Brazil. Located in Itapoã on the northern coast of Santa Catarina state, the reserve encompasses 1100 hectares (about 2300 acres) within one of the largest areas of undisturbed Atlantic Forest (lowland rainforest on the coastal plain of Brazil), without doubt among the most endangered biomes on the planet...

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!

tour operators

Na Trila Certa

http://www.natrilhacerta.com.br
So far only in Portuguese...

places to stay

EcoResort Vida Sol e Mar - Imbituba

http://www.vidasolemar.com.br/
Specialises in whale watching...

Fazenda Boqueirão

http://www.fazendaboqueirao.com.br/
Today the Boqueirão farm Rural Tourism offers to its visitors a tradicional Farm in a planty and complete structure of activities and house, counting yet on a environment program. [I think I understand].

Hotel Plaza Caldas da Imperatriz - Santo Amaro da Imperatriz

http://www.plazahoteis.com.br/
unto à exuberante natureza da Mata Atlântica, o Resort Plaza Caldas da Imperatriz possui uma das mais avançadas tecnologias em Spa, com diversos tratamentos voltados para a saúde e a beleza. o Spa Plaza Caldas da Imperatriz oferece também várias atividades em suas águas termominerais, consideradas uma das melhores do mundo e indicadas para o tratamento do reumatismo, aparelho digestivo, aparelho renal entre outros...

La Dolce Vita - Rio do Una

http://www.hotelladolcevita.com.br/
"The fascinating surroundings where La Dolce Vita is located, can be compared to the beauty of a postcard. Among the wonderful natural places, there is a 210.000 m2 long lake and walking along its edges you can see majestic green trees. The scenery is perfect at daybreak and at sunset. The fog coming from the waters announces that a new day is starting and choreographs the dance of the aquatic birds. When the night falls, the reddish nuances that appear on the horizon present you another breathtaking show when they join the almost black vigor of the leaves."

Plaza Pousada da Mata - Santo Amaro da Imperatriz

http://www.plazahoteis.com.br
A Mata Atlântica constitui um importante centro de endemismo para diversos grupos de seres vivos. Na amostra de 127 espécies de árvores da Mata Atlântica, estudadas por Mori et al. (1981); 65,3 % foram consideradas endêmicas deste bioma...

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