We had a much more relaxed itinerary planned for today, heading to the area where we had previously heard but failed to see the apparently very sneaky Alagoas Black-throated Trogon. We had a few camera traps to collect on the way, but in the end, it simply became a task of trying to find this damn bird. And, as seems to almost always be the case here, it remained silent and we recorded nothing. As we waited, Herminio suggested he would check another territory he knew of, one that had been very silent during our stay in the reserve. We waited a little longer but it wasn’t long before the radio crackled to life as he informed us that the bird he went to investigate was showing right on the trail. We covered the distance to his position incredibly quickly, guided by the Trogon itself as it sang in the canopy, but once we arrived the bird did not show again, only calling from high in the forest. We searched but to no avail and soon it stopped singing. It was at that point that somehow, I spotted the bird very low down motionless in the forest. A few quick photos were taken but by the time Lia arrived, he had already departed and we did not see it again.
Having finally buried that hatchet, we spent the afternoon
birding at the forest edge where we had been a couple of days previous. Here we
were hoping for a hawk, but that did not happen and the raptor variety was
limited to just Black Vulture and Turkey Vulture. While we stayed here and
watched there were a few birds of note. A male Black-eared Fairy paid a quick
visit, two Yellowish Pipit dropped in and a flock of three Peach-fronted
Parakeets flew over, an uncommon species for this site. On the walk to the
border, we had good, if not brilliant views of Pernambuco Foliage Gleaner, which
was nice after a few days of not seeing this bird.
At night we tried again for the endemic Screech Owl, but we
had no joy at all.
ESEC Murici: Scaled Pigeon, Squirrel Cuckoo, Short-tailed Nighthawk, Lesser Swallow-tailed Swift, Black Jacobin, Reddish Hermit, Black-eared Fairy, Long-tailed Woodnymph, Black Vulture, Turkey Vulture, Black Hawk-Eagle, Short-tailed Hawk, Black-throated Trogon, Black-necked Aracari, Channel-billed Toucan, Collared Forest Falcon, Crested Caracara, Yellow-headed Caracara, Peach-fronted Parakeet, Red-shouldered Macaw, Plain Antvireo, Silvery-flanked Antwren, Rusty-winged Antwren, Scaled Antbird, Scalloped Antbird, Black-cheeked Gnateater, Ceara Woodcreeper, Plain Xenops, Pernambuco Foliage-gleaner, Blue-backed Manakin, Red-headed Manakin, Screaming Piha, Brown-winged Schiffornis, White-throated Spadebill, Ochre-bellied Flycatcher, White-bellied Tody-Tyrant, Yellow-bellied Elaenia, Bright-rumped Attila, Greyish Mourner, Piratic Flycatcher, Tropical Kingbird, Trilling Gnatwren, Moustached Wren, Yellowish Pipit, Violaceous Euphonia, Yellow-green Grosbeak, Palm Tanager, Green Honeycreeper, Bananaquit,
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