01 Jul 2025 - 14 Jul 2025 (14 days)
BRL34,950 - Spaces Available
Tour Leader: Robert Wilcox
Tour price (Per person): BRL34,950 * USD5,898 * GBP4,776 * EUR5,663 * AUD9,388
Single Supplement: BRL2,900 * USD489 * GBP396 * EUR470 * AUD779
30 Jun 2026 - 13 Jul 2026 (14 days)
BRL36,300 - Spaces Available
Tour Leader: Lisle Gwynn
Pricing notes : *Prices are estimated and dates may change*
Tour price (Per person): BRL36,300 * USD6,126 * GBP4,960 * EUR5,882 * AUD9,751
Brazil is one of the most biodiverse countries on the planet and a dream destination for birders, general naturalists, and photographers alike. Our relaxed Southeastern Endemics tour covers some of the key highlights of the threatened Atlantic Forests, seeking out a myriad of remarkable and endemic species.
Ubatuba, Intervales and Itatiaia are among the big name sites that we will explore, with highlight species including Black-fronted Piping Guan, Surucua Trogon, Saffron Toucanet, Red-necked, Golden-chevroned and Green-headed Tanagers, Spot-winged Wood Quail, Spotted Bamboowren, Green-crowned Plovercrest, Festive Coquette, Itatiaia Spinetail, Black-and-gold and Swallow-tailed Cotingas, Bare-throated Bellbird, Hooded Berryeater, Serra do Mar Tyrannulet, as well many other gorgeous tanagers, antbirds, antwrens and huge spectacular antshrikes!
Black-fronted Piping Guan; Surucua Trogon; Saffron Toucanet; Red-necked, Golden-chevroned & Green-headed Tanagers; Spot-winged Wood Quail; Spotted Bamboowren; Green-crowned Plovercrest; Festive Coquette; Itatiaia Spinetail; Black-and-gold & Swallow-tailed Cotingas; Bare-throated Bellbird; Hooded Berryeater; Serra do Mar Tyrannulet.
lowland and montane Atlantic rainforest, highland Araucaria forest, grasslands, scrubby habitat, fazendas
Temperatures comfortable in the highlands (can be cool to cold) generally hot & humid in the lowlands.
10 with 1 Rockjumper Tour Leader
UNDEMANDING: This tour is ideal for birders and wildlife enthusiasts of all experience levels. It’s suitable for most mobility levels and offers a relaxed pace, ensuring an enjoyable experience for everyone.
Our Relaxed series of tours are designed to focus on having an enjoyable holiday with a bird and wildlife focus. Where possible; we have reduced or removed long drives, single night stays and poor/rustic accommodation. We have also sought to reduce or remove difficult hikes, narrow/muddy trails and otherwise oppressive environmental conditions. Early starts and night birding are mostly optional, and we will not spend much time searching for difficult and/or skulking species. These tours are not suitable for hardcore birders and listers, or dedicated photographers.
Good, one lodge is simple but comfortable.
Moderate. A fair amount of forest birding means some species are difficult to find or visuals aren’t always of great quality. Forest edge birding is very rewarding.
Good to good+. Internal forest photography is challenging, several fruit & hummingbird feeders.
We really appreciated our trip. Our Rockjumper guide, Bobby Wilcox, and the local guides were awesome; always on the lookout for new birds and other animals, even on the long drives. The organization was flawless, the lodges were great and perfectly located. Our triplist and lifers goals were exceeded! The group was great and always well controlled by Bobby. Very well done! Our long sighting of a female jaguar was certainly the peak of this trip !!!
Rob Williams was helpful above and beyond the call by going out of his way to make it an enjoyable tour.
A Fantastic experience!! Considerably better than I had expected. Guides were fantastic!! And the inclusion of local Brazilian guide - Leo - was a real plus. He worked great together with Forrest Rowland, and his knowledge of the country and the vegetation was a real plus. The mammals and other critters were a real plus to the tour. The facilities, driver, and van were also great! Overall, this tour ranks among the top of the 7-8 birding tours I have ever taken, and Rockjumper is certainly a company I would highly recommend to others!!!
The tour was fantastic and both of our guides were excellent. We enjoyed traveling with Lev. He is so enthusiastic! He is an excellent birding guide and also very knowledgeable about the natural history of the animals we saw. That made the experience even more enjoyable. He worked very hard to enable us to see some of the trickier birds, like the Zigzag Heron that was hiding in the trees. It turns out, he even speaks 'zigzag', as he carried on a 10 min conversation (back and forth calls) with the heron, trying to coax him into a better view. It was wonderful having a local guide, Leo, on this trip as well. He added a lot to the birding experience, was essential for dealing with logistics, and had a wealth of knowledge about the history of Brazil and the places we visited, that made it an even more interesting trip. Well Done Rockjumper!!
WOW – this was an entirely different trip than the main trip. The Pousada facility was a little more rustic than some of the other accommodations but nothing we couldn’t handle. It was certainly better than a hammock at the guard headquarters which Bradley indicated was the only thing available prior to Pousada. This portion required what seemed like a lot more walking and climbing over tree falls than anywhere else on the trip. It seemed that more of the birds were skulkers but then we were focusing on “ant-somethings” which are notoriously secretive. Again, it was disappointing there was not a single ant swarm and the mixed flocks were generally small and moved away from the trails fairly quickly. It was also frustrating that the best of the three trails (Capelinha) in the park was not available to us due to an on-going mammal-use survey. But, none of these things were within the control of Tuomas, Bradley, or our local guide. They were pros at adapting and modifying to take advantage of the trails that were available to us. By my count the main trip list was about 446 and we gained 81 sp on the extension, however, 40% of those were lifers, so worth the effort and expense, in my opinion. Our local guide, Gilberto, was indispensable. His recent knowledge was invaluable to know where to go for the target species.
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