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I was lucky enough to go on a several day work trip to Manaus, Brazil from
26 June to 1 July 2010. I patrolled the area around my hotel several days,
finding a few little patches of habitat, and hired a guide a boat a couple
of days as well. In the middle of rainy season, the rivers were very high.
My hotel was the Manaus Tropical on the Rio Negro River. Each day's details:
26 June: Meeting of the Waters boat trip to confluence of Rio Negro and Rio
Solimoes. Some consider this the beginning of the real Amazon.
27 June: Big Island (photo numbers 6-39), Ariau Tower on Ariau River (44-255)
28 June: Iranduba Lake (8-237), Lake Januauari (252-263), Januauri Island
trail (268-316)
29 June: Hotel Tropical groundsIf you mouse over the photo the date and
image number will give you the location. Each image is a thumbnail, click on
it to see the larger images
Thanks to Dennis Paulson for ID help with
birds and odonates, Angelo Pinto and
Natalia Von Ellenrieder
with odonates, and Terry Irwin and Dan Duran
with beetles.
Here are some photos from the trip... |
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Birds I saw about 50 species, but only got decent shots
of a few... most of these were shot from a moving boat. |
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Striated Heron (Butorides striatus) |
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Hook-billed Kite (Chondrohierax uncinatus) |
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Roadside Hawk (Buteo magnirostris) |
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Wattled Jacana (Jacana jacana) |
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Large-billed Tern (Phaetusa simplex) |
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Squirrel Cuckoo (Piaya cayana) |
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Tropical Screech-Owl (Otus choliba) |
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Nacunda Nighthawk (Podager nacunda) |
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Crimson-crested Woodpecker (Campephilus melanoleucos) |
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Straight-billed Woodcreeper (Xiphorynchus picus)
Not sure of the ID on this one... |
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Yellow-rumped Cacique (Cacicus cela) |
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| Odonates
Many of these will go unidentified because I could not collect them... |
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Phoenicagrion sp. |
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Telebasis sp.? |
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Ischnura fluviatilis |
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Gynacantha sp. |
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Neuraeschna sp. Two shots of the same individual. |
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Triacanthagyna sp.
Very small, for this genus. |
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Tawny Pennant (Brachymesia herbida) |
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Blue-eyed Setwing (Dythemis multiplicata) |
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Black Pondhawk (Erthemis attala) |
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Flame-tailed Pondhawk (Erythemis peruviana) |
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Great Pondhawk (Erythemis vesiculosa) |
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Red-faced Dragonlet (Erythrodiplax fusca) |
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Unknown dragonlet |
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Perithemis lais |
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Common Woodskimmer (Uracis imbuta) |
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Beetles I collected the tigers, and tried for the
Colliuris but missed it. |
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Odontocheila confusa Maybe. |
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Specimen of above beetle |
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Pentacomia sp. |
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Specimen of above beetle |
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Another Pentacomia sp. |
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Colliuris sp. |
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| Mammals |
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Pink Dolphin (Inia geoffrensis) Pink
Dolphin web site:
click here |
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Squirrel Monkey (Saimiri sciureus) Even if you
aren't carrying food they will hop on your shoulders at resorts looking for
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| Misc
Arthropods |
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Unknown jumping spider |
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Unknown grasshopper |
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Unknown Coreid |
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Unknown leafhopper |
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Unknown hopper, possibly a sharpshooter |
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Unknown butterflies |
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Unknown mosquito |
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Eccritosia sp robber fly |
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| The actual
"Meeting of the Rivers" |
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Rio Negro on the left, Rio Solimoes on the right |
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