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WorldTwitch Brazil - Birds & Birding
 
Brazil Bird Reports
Trip Reports
(25)
Ornithological Articles
Brazil bird links
Brazil
birding tours
Ecolodges and other
accommodations of potential interest to birders
National
parks and nature reserves
Mammals,
Herps, Insects, and Other Fauna & Flora
Conservation and
Environment
Natural
History Societies & Museums
Indians
of Brazil
Other
Useful Links
Brazil Maps
Books on Brazil birds, natural history and travel:
| iJET Weekly Travel Intelligence Report -
Brazil. (PDF download from Amazon.com.)
US |
 Edwin
O. Willis & Yoshika Oniki. Aves do Estado de São Paulo.
July 2003. 398 pages, 84 color plates by Tomas Sigrist.
Available for $115 postpaid from Atualidades Oritológicas, CP
238, 86870-000 Ivaiporã, PR, Brazil. Send an International
Postal Money Order. |
 Yoshika
Oniki & Edwin O. Willis. Bibliography of Brazilian Birds:
1500-2002. 532 pages. 2002. Available for $30 postpaid from
Atualidades Oritológicas, CP 238, 86870-000 Ivaiporã, PR,
Brazil. Send an International Postal Money Order. |
| Deodata Souza. All the Birds of Brazil: an
identification guide. 360 pages, 158 color plates.
Reportedly available for $35 postpaid from Atualidades
Oritológicas, CP 238, 86870-000 Ivaiporã, PR, Brazil. Send an
International Postal Money Order. |
| Kevin Zimmer & Andrew Whittaker. Birds of
Brazil. The first modern field guide to the birds of Brazil
is now in preparation. Princeton University Press. Forthcoming -
2007?
UK |
DE |
FR |
CA |
| Robert S. Ridgely, Guy Tudor et al. Guide to
the Birds of Brazil: Volume 1: The Pantanal & Cerrado. Work
has begun on a new series of field guides that will use GT's
paintings from The Birds of South America plus plates by
additional artists including Michael Di Giorgio. WCS. |
| Bret Whitney. Guide to the Birds of Brazil:
Volume 1: Atlantic Forest. Another series of Brazil field
guides using plates from HBW is underway. Lynx Edicions. |
| Helmut Sick. Birds in Brazil. In
the absence of acceptable bird guides covering the
non-passerines of Brazil, it is often necessary to consult
Sick's reference work. 774 pages. Princeton University Press,
1993.
US |
UK |
| Tony Juniper. Spix's Macaw: The race to save
the world's rarest bird. 304 pages. Fourth Estate, 2002.
US |
UK |
| Bruce C. Forrester, Birding Brazil.
Spiral bound. 1993.
UK |
| Bathasar Dubs. Birds of Southwestern Brazil.
1992. 162 pages. 58 color plates.
US |
| Martin R. de la Peña & Maurice Rumboll.
Illustrated Checklist: Birds of Southern South America and
Antarctica. 224 pages. HarperCollins & Princeton University
Press. 1998.
US |
UK |
| Nigel Wheatley, Where to Watch Birds in
South America.
US |
UK |
| Tito Narosky & Juan Carlos Chebez. Guia para
la Identificación de las Aves de Iguazú. Illustrated by
Darío Yzurieta. 127 pages. Vazquez Mazzini Editores, 2002.
US |
UK |
todo.com.uy |
| John F. Eisenberg and Kent Redford, Mammals
of the Neotropics Vol. 3: The Central Neotropics - Ecuador,
Peru, Bolivia, Brazil.
US |
UK |
| Louise H. Emmons, François Feer (illustrator).
Neotropical Rainforest Mammals: A Field Guide. 392 pages.
U. of Chicago Press. 2d edition, 1997.
US |
UK |
| Louise H. Emmons, Bret M. Whitney & David L.
Ross. Sounds of Neotropical Rainforest Mammals: An Audio
Field Guide. Audio CD. U. of Chicago Press, 1998.
US |
UK |
| Richard D. Bartlett & Patricia Pope Bartlett.
Reptiles and Amphibians of the Amazon: An Ecotourist's Guide.
448 pages. Covers 250 common species. University of Florida
Press 2003.
US |
UK |
| Adrian Henderson, Gloria Galeano & Rodrigo
Bernal. Field Guide to the Palms of the Americas.
Princeton University Press, 1997. 363 pages. 256 color
illustrations on 64 pages.
US |
UK |
| David Pearson & Les Belesky. Brazil - Amazon
& Pantanal. Ecotravellers' Wildlife Guides. Academic Press
2001. 500 pages.
US |
UK |
| David Miller, Richard Warren, I.M. Miller.
Orchids of the High Mountain Rain Forest in Southeastern Brazil:
A Field and Hobbyist Guide. 182 pages. 192 color photos.
UK |
  Guia
Quatro Rodas website |
| Guia Quatro Rodas: Guia Brasil, Guia
Rodoviário (road atlas) & Guia Praias (guide to coastal resorts):
Guia Brasil (818 pages), generally referred to as Guia
Quatro Rodas (as the name implies, Quatro Rodas is a car
magazine), and the Guia Rodoviário (122 pages) are the
essential commercial travel publications for use in Brazil, and
the Guia Praias (244 pages) is useful along the coast.
New editions are issued annually. They usually are available at
the bookshops in the SP and RJ international airports and at
newsstands in major intercity bus depots.
Loja Abril. |
 Turismo
Ecológico no Brasil. Editora Abril. Not listed on Abril's
newly-revised website, but perhaps still available in Brazil.
289 pages. Review on
Trilhas e Aventuras. |
| Philips Guides to Brazil. Five
guidebooks are now available in Portuguese and English editions:
Amazonia, The South, Pantanal & Bonito, The Northeast & The
National Parks. They may be ordered online from the publisher,
Editora Horizonte Geográfico, or
PubliFolha. |
 Michaelis
Moderno Dicionário English-Portuguese / Portuguese-English.
1735 pages.
Details. (Melhoramentos, 2000). The most complete bi-lingual
dictionary, with more than 167,000 words. Most
Portuguese-English dictionaries are woefully inadequate, even
for translating newspapers and websites.
US |
UK |
CA |
| Lonely Planet: Brazil (5th ed. 2002).
US |
UK |
| Brazil: The Rough Guide.
US |
UK |
| Bradbury, Guide to Brazil.
US |
UK |
| Footprint Brazil Handbook. 3rd ed. 2003.
US |
UK |
| Guide to the Amazon - Bradt.
US |
UK |
| The Amazon Up Close.
US |
UK |
| Insight Guide: Amazon Wildlife. 362
pages. APA Productions. 4th ed. 2002.
US |
UK |
| Alwyn H. Gentry (ed.) Four Neotropical
Rainforests. (Manaus, Manu, BCI & La Selva.) 644 pages. Yale
U. Press, 1993 (1990).
US |
UK |
| Nigel J.H. Smith. Amazon Sweet Sea: Land,
life and water at the river's mouth. 296 pages. University
of Texas Press 2002.
US |
UK |
| Nigel J.H. Smith. The Amazon River Forest: A
Natural History of Plants, Animals, and People. 256 pages.
Oxford University Press, 1999.
US |
UK |
| William Milliken & J.A. Ratter (eds),
Maracá: The Biodiversity and Environment of an Amazon Rainforest.
Includes 33 papers reporting on the findings of an intensive
ecological survey in 1987-88 to Ihla de Maracá, RR. John Wiley &
Son, 1998. 528 pages.
US |
UK |
| Adrian Cowell. The
Decade of Destruction: The crusade to save the Amazon rain
forest. Documents the massive forest destruction in Rondônia
caused by the World Bank's infamous Polonoroeste loan. Also a
Channel Four documentary. (1990).
US |
UK |
| Adrian Cowell. The Tribe that Hides from Man.
Cowell joined FUNAI expeditions to make first contact with the
Kreen-Akrore (Panara) Indians in the early 1960s along the route
of the Cuiabá - Santarém Road. Also a Channel Four documentary.
(1977).
US |
UK |
| Marcelo D. Beccaceci, Natural Iguaçu.
Details. 128 pages. Panagaea 2003. |
| Marcelo D. Beccaceci, Natural Pantanal &
Iberá.
Details. 128 pages. Pangaea 2003. |
| Philip W. Willink, Barry Chernoff, Leeanne
Alonso, Jensen R. Montambault & Reinaldo Lourival (eds.) A
Biological Assessment of the Aquatic Ecosystems of the Pantanal,
Mato Grosso do Sul. RAP Bulletin No. 18. 306 pages.
Conservation International 2001.
US |
UK |
| Charles W. Heckman, The Pantanal of Poconé:
Biota and Ecology in the Northern Section of the World's Largest
Pristine Wetland. (Monographiae Biologicae, Vol 77). Kluwer
Academic Publishers, 1998.
US |
UK |
| Frederick A. Swarts (ed.), The Pantanal:
Understanding and Preserving the World's Largest Wetland.
Paragon House. 2d ed. 2000. 336 pages.
US |
UK |
| Frederick A. Swarts (ed.), The Pantanal of
Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay: Selected Discourses on the World's
Largest Remaining Wetland System. Hudson MacArthur, 2000.
287 pages.
US |
| Sy Montgomery. Journey of the Pink Dolphins:
An Amazon quest. 336 pages. Touchstone Books and Simon &
Schuster. 2000.
US |
UK |
| Richard O. Bierregaard, Jr., Claude Gascon,
Thomas E. Lovejoy & Rita Mesquita (eds.) Lessons from
Amazonia: The Ecology and Conservation of a Fragmented Forest.
544 pages. Yale U. Press. May 2001.
US |
UK |
| William F. Laurance & Richard O. Bierregaard,
Jr. (eds.) Tropical Forest Remnants: Ecology, Management, and
Conservation of Fragmented Communities. 616 pages, 4 color
plates, 12 halftones, 33 maps, 93 line drawings, 85 tables. U.
of Chicago Press. 1997.
US |
UK |
| Carlos S. Diegues (ed.) An Inventory of
Brazilian Wetlands. 216 pages. IUCN, 1994.
US |
UK |
| Warren Dean. With Broadax and Firebrand: The
Destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest.
U. of California Press, 1997. 504 pages.
US |
UK |
| Charles H. Wood & Roberto Porro (eds.)
Deforestation and Land Use in the Amazon. 400 pages.
University of Florida Press, 2002.
US |
UK |
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Nick Gordon.
In the Heart of the Amazon. Second edition of
Tarantulas, Marmosets and Other Stories. Adventures of a
wildlife cameraman in Amazonia. 286 pages. Metro Publishing
2002.
US |
UK |
| Betty J. Meggers. Amazonia: Man and Culture
in a Counterfeit Paradise. Outstanding anthropological work.
214 pages. Smithsonian. Revised edition. 1995 (1971).
US |
UK |
| Hugh Raffles. In Amazonia: A Natural
History. 288 pages. Princeton U. Press 2002.
US |
UK |
| Warren Dean. Brazil and the Struggle for
Rubber: A Study in Environmental History. Cambridge U.
Press, 1987. 256 pages.
US |
UK |
| Geoffrey O'Connor, Amazon Journal:
Dispatches from a Vanishing Frontier. Plume, 1998. 384
pages.
US |
UK |
| Michael Goulding, Nigel J.H. Smith & Dennis J.
Mahar. Floods of Fortune: Ecology and Economy Along the
Amazon. 184 pages. Columbia U. Press 2000.
US |
UK |
| Alain Gheerbrandt, The Amazon: Past, Present
& Future. Abrams 1992. 191 pages.
US |
| Katrina Brandon, Kent H. Redford & Steven E.
Sanderson (eds.) Parks in Peril: People, Politics & Protected
Areas. 400 pages. Island Press, 1998.
US |
UK |
| Alex Webb. Amazon: From the Floodplains to
the Clouds. 144 pages. Monacelli Press, 1997.
US |
UK |
| Wade Davis. One River: Explorations and
discoveries in the Amazon forest. 544 pages. Touchstone
Books, 1997.
US |
UK |
| William Lewis Herndon. Exploration of the
Valley of the Amazon, 1851-52. Edited and with a foreword by
Gary Kinder. 343 pages. Grove Press, 2000.
US |
UK |
| Eat Smart in Brazil.
US |
UK |
| The 1994 revised edition of William Belton's "Aves
do Rio Grande do Sul, distribuição e biologia" may be
purchased for R$22.00 from Editora Unisinos, Av. Unisinos 950,
93022-000 São Leopoldo, RS, Brazil. |
| Lenir Alda do Rosário. As Aves em Santa
Catarina: Distribuição geográfica e meio ambiente. 1996.
State distribution maps. 26 color plates & line drawings by
Eduardo Parentoni Brettas. 1996. Published by Fundação do Meio
Ambiente - FATMA, Caixa Postal 1254, Florianópolis, SC. |
| Sacred Music from 18th Century Brazil Vol. 1,
Ensemble Turicum, Luis Alves da Silva, director & countertenor.
Claves 9521 - Exceptional disk of previously unknown music by
Neapolitan-influenced, mulatto composers from northeast Brazil.
The best of the three Ensemble Turicum recordings of Brazilian
early music.
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