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The Rufous Hornero Furnarius rufus is very common in open country in the southern half of South America east of the Andes and is the national bird of Argentina. Rather thrush-like, Horneros (there are eight species of Furnarius) are actually funariids, a diverse family which currently includes seemingly unrelated tribes as the ‘true ovenbirds’ (which [...]

After reaching the dizzying heights yesterday of seeing a bird only discovered five years ago, of having a Rufous-sided Crake walk over my foot (well, almost), and seeing a stack of life birds, a visit to Ibirapuera Park, one of Sao Paulo’s busiest public parks on an Easter Sunday (its 1.5 million square meters apparently [...]

One of the joys of birding (if we’re honest with ourselves) is seeing a new species, and especially one that we didn’t know existed but is so strikingly coloured or patterned that we know right away that it’s not going to be too hard to put a name to it once we either open up [...]

One of the least-known taxa in Brazil (and thus probably in the world) is an antwren found only in typha marshes at the head of the Teite River in São Paulo, south-eastern Brazil. Only discovered in February 2005 when an ecological survey was made of an area threatened by a new reservoir (see below for [...]