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This is a series of images taken last summer in the Pantanal of Brazil. We came upon this juvenile Rufescent Tiger-Heron that had captured some kind of prey. After several minutes it gulped it down!

Rufescent Tiger-Heron

This medium-sized heron is found around swamps, marshes, and sluggish streams at lower elevations. Usually seen singly. Adults are distinctive with their bright rufous head and neck. Juveniles are buffy with uneven black barring. Juveniles essentially identical to juvenile Fasciated Tiger-Heron, but note different habitat.

August 21, 2024

Taken on a photo tour guided by Juan Carlos Vindas of Neotropic Photo Tours.

This is a series of images taken last summer in the Pantanal of Brazil. We came upon this juvenile Rufescent Tiger-Heron that had captured some kind of prey. After several minutes it gulped it down!

Rufescent Tiger-Heron

This medium-sized heron is found around swamps, marshes, and sluggish streams at lower elevations. Usually seen singly. Adults are distinctive with their bright rufous head and neck. Juveniles are buffy with uneven black barring. Juveniles essentially identical to juvenile Fasciated Tiger-Heron, but note different habitat.

August 21, 2024

Taken on a photo tour guided by Juan Carlos Vindas of Neotropic Photo Tours.

This is a series of images taken last summer in the Pantanal of Brazil. We came upon this juvenile Rufescent Tiger-Heron that had captured some kind of prey. After several minutes it gulped it down!

Rufescent Tiger-Heron

This medium-sized heron is found around swamps, marshes, and sluggish streams at lower elevations. Usually seen singly. Adults are distinctive with their bright rufous head and neck. Juveniles are buffy with uneven black barring. Juveniles essentially identical to juvenile Fasciated Tiger-Heron, but note different habitat.

August 21, 2024

Taken on a photo tour guided by Juan Carlos Vindas of Neotropic Photo Tours.

This is a series of images taken last summer in the Pantanal of Brazil. We came upon this juvenile Rufescent Tiger-Heron that had captured some kind of prey. After several minutes it gulped it down!

Rufescent Tiger-Heron

This medium-sized heron is found around swamps, marshes, and sluggish streams at lower elevations. Usually seen singly. Adults are distinctive with their bright rufous head and neck. Juveniles are buffy with uneven black barring. Juveniles essentially identical to juvenile Fasciated Tiger-Heron, but note different habitat.

August 21, 2024

Taken on a photo tour guided by Juan Carlos Vindas of Neotropic Photo Tours.

This is a series of images taken last summer in the Pantanal of Brazil. We came upon this juvenile Rufescent Tiger-Heron that had captured some kind of prey. After several minutes it gulped it down!

Rufescent Tiger-Heron

This medium-sized heron is found around swamps, marshes, and sluggish streams at lower elevations. Usually seen singly. Adults are distinctive with their bright rufous head and neck. Juveniles are buffy with uneven black barring. Juveniles essentially identical to juvenile Fasciated Tiger-Heron, but note different habitat.

August 21, 2024

Taken on a photo tour guided by Juan Carlos Vindas of Neotropic Photo Tours.

This is a series of images taken last summer in the Pantanal of Brazil. We came upon this juvenile Rufescent Tiger-Heron that had captured some kind of prey. After several minutes it gulped it down!

Rufescent Tiger-Heron

This medium-sized heron is found around swamps, marshes, and sluggish streams at lower elevations. Usually seen singly. Adults are distinctive with their bright rufous head and neck. Juveniles are buffy with uneven black barring. Juveniles essentially identical to juvenile Fasciated Tiger-Heron, but note different habitat.

August 21, 2024

Taken on a photo tour guided by Juan Carlos Vindas of Neotropic Photo Tours.

The Green Kingfisher ('Chloroceryle americana') is small kingfisher with a very long bill. Both sexes have a green head, back and tail feathers with a white underbelly. Males have a red breast and females have a double collar of green feathers on their breast.

They are found over most of South America and their range extends as far as Mexico and the southner United States..

I managed to capture a series of images as this female was expelling a pellet. This is final frame and the one where the pellet is falling.

Image created on October 24, 2024 over the Pixaim River near the the Southwild Pantanal Lodge, Santa Tereza, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.

We were lucky to get such great looks at this beautiful bird. They don't come out in the open like this very often. We observed this individual foraging for ants along the river bank before it jumped up on this branch.

Strikingly patterned but very skulking bird of forest borders, thickets, and tangles in humid tropical lowlands; uncommon. Heard much more often than seen; typically sings from dense vine tangles. Song suggests some trogons, but ends with a quiet snarl audible at close range. Male is black above; female is rusty above. Both have clean white underparts, bright red eyes, stout hooked bills, and crests that can be raised or lowered.

Pixaim River - Poconé, MT Brazil
August 22, 2024

Taken on a photo tour guided by Juan Carlos Vindas of Neotropic Photo Tours.

Near Threatened. Large forest guan found in far southeastern Peru, Bolivia, southwestern Brazil, and northern Paraguay, often along rivers. Plumage is mostly black with a white face, crown, nape, and wing patch. It has a bare patch of skin on the throat that may be light blue or white. On older birds this skin patch ends in a wormlike wattle that dangles below the neck. Formerly treated as a subspecies of Blue-throated Piping-Guan; it can be distinguished by the pure white (not buff-streaked) crown and nape, paler blue or white throat patch, and the wormlike wattle (on adults). In some areas, including the Pantanal, individuals with blue and red throat patches can be found; these are likely hybrids with Red-throated Piping-Guan. Mostly arboreal, but sometimes descends to the ground to feed or drink. Song, often given at dawn or dusk, is a rising series of clear whistles. Occasionally rattles its wings loudly in flight.

Pixaim River - Poconé, MT Brazil
August 21, 2024

Taken on a photo tour guided by Juan Carlos Vindas of Neotropic Photo Tours.

Near Threatened. Large forest guan found in far southeastern Peru, Bolivia, southwestern Brazil, and northern Paraguay, often along rivers. Plumage is mostly black with a white face, crown, nape, and wing patch. It has a bare patch of skin on the throat that may be light blue or white. On older birds this skin patch ends in a wormlike wattle that dangles below the neck. Formerly treated as a subspecies of Blue-throated Piping-Guan; it can be distinguished by the pure white (not buff-streaked) crown and nape, paler blue or white throat patch, and the wormlike wattle (on adults). In some areas, including the Pantanal, individuals with blue and red throat patches can be found; these are likely hybrids with Red-throated Piping-Guan. Mostly arboreal, but sometimes descends to the ground to feed or drink. Song, often given at dawn or dusk, is a rising series of clear whistles. Occasionally rattles its wings loudly in flight.

Pixaim River - Poconé, MT Brazil
August 21, 2024

Taken on a photo tour guided by Juan Carlos Vindas of Neotropic Photo Tours.

One of the challenges of photographing from a boat is the movement. All the images I took in Brazil from a boat were hand held. In most cases I tired to use a high shutter speed to compensate for any movement. Sometimes that was not possible, as with these images. I had to be rock solid as these were taken at 1/400s at ISO 4000.

Ringed Kingfisher - Male

Largest kingfisher in Americas with exceptionally enormous bill and raucous calls. Blue-gray with shaggy crest, white collar, and rufous belly. Male and female similar, but note different breast pattern: entirely rufous on male, while female has blue-gray band bordered by white. Often conspicuous, searching shallow water for fish from a prominent perch and chattering noisily when disturbed. Singles or pairs are also often observed flying high overhead and giving loud "keck" calls. Nests in burrows excavated in banks, generally along watercourses.

Pixaim River - Poconé, MT Brazil
6:15am August 22, 2024

Taken on a photo tour guided by Juan Carlos Vindas of Neotropic Photo Tours.

One of the challenges of photographing from a boat is the movement. All the images I took in Brazil from a boat were hand held. In most cases I tired to use a high shutter speed to compensate for any movement. Sometimes that was not possible, as with these images. I had to be rock solid as these were taken at 1/400s at ISO 4000.

Ringed Kingfisher - Male

Largest kingfisher in Americas with exceptionally enormous bill and raucous calls. Blue-gray with shaggy crest, white collar, and rufous belly. Male and female similar, but note different breast pattern: entirely rufous on male, while female has blue-gray band bordered by white. Often conspicuous, searching shallow water for fish from a prominent perch and chattering noisily when disturbed. Singles or pairs are also often observed flying high overhead and giving loud "keck" calls. Nests in burrows excavated in banks, generally along watercourses.

Pixaim River - Poconé, MT Brazil
6:15am August 22, 2024

Taken on a photo tour guided by Juan Carlos Vindas of Neotropic Photo Tours.

Besides the boat rides we took when looking for jaguar we also went out looking for wildlife on a motor boat at one other location. I took advantage of some beautiful morning light when I captured this hawk resting adjacent to the river.

Roadside Hawk

Well-named, the common roadside hawk in tropical lowlands of East Mexico and Central and South America. Often seen on wires, phone poles, posts out in fields. Adult has staring pale eyes, streaked breast contrasting with barred belly. Immature streaked below, much like many other immature hawks, but its tail has broad and fairly even bands. Flies with rather quick, stiff wingbeats, recalling a Red-shouldered Hawk or an Accipiter; noisy flight display mainly in late winter-spring.

August 22, 2024

Taken on a photo tour guided by Juan Carlos Vindas of Neotropic Photo Tours.

The Pantanal
Brazil
South America

This image was taken from a boat.

The yacare caiman (Caiman yacare), also known commonly as the jacare caiman, Spanish 'yacaré', Paraguayan caiman, piranha caiman, red caiman, southern spectacled caiman (jacaré) in Portuguese and (îakaré) in Old Tupi, is a species of caiman, a crocodilian in the family Alligatoridae. The species is endemic to Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay.

Brown in color and covered with dark blotches, males grow to a total length (including tail) of 2–3 metres (6.6–9.8 ft) and females to 1.4 metres (4.6 ft).

Typical habitats of this caiman include lakes, rivers, and wetlands. Its diet primarily consists of aquatic animals, such as snails, and occasionally land vertebrates. Mating occurs in the rainy season and eggs hatch in March, with young fending for themselves as soon as they hatch.

The yacare caiman was hunted heavily for its skin to use for leather in the 1980s, which caused its population to decrease significantly. However, trading restrictions placed since have caused its population to increase. Its population in the Pantanal is about 10 million, and it is listed as least concern on the IUCN Red List.- Wikipedia

Pixaim River
The Pantanal
Brazil
South America

Although caimans cannot breathe underwater, they are able to hold their breath for long periods of time while submerged. Usually these creatures are able to hold their breath anywhere from 4 to 15 minutes; however they have been known to remain underwater for longer periods of time if necessary.

The longest time a caiman has been known to hold its breath varies from 30 minutes to 2 hours. It has been suggested that they may even be able to hold their breath for longer than an hour or two if needed.

Typically when a caiman goes underwater it does so by submerging itself in the water or sinking to the bottom of the water. Afterwards they generally hold their breath and remain there for 10-15 minutes.

When a caiman submerges itself, a flap that the creature is equipped with automatically closes off the caiman’s ears and nostrils.

Another flap closes off the back of the caiman’s throat. This flap blocks water so that it does not enter the creature’s stomach and/or lungs. The caiman also has transparent eyelids that cover its eyes so that they can see under water.

When a caiman is not active or when the weather is colder, caiman are able to hold their breath even longer. This enables them to wait for prey to come to them before they even realize that the caiman is there. Wikipedia

Canon EOS 10D, Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM, development in Lightroom. The geotag is approximate.

Caracara plancus plancus
Pteronura brasiliensis

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantanal

Canon EOS 10D, Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM, development in Lightroom. The geotag is approximate.

Pteronura brasiliensis

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantanal

Canon EOS 10D, Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM, development in Lightroom. The geotag is approximate.

Pteronura brasiliensis

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantanal

Canon EOS 10D, Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM, development in Lightroom. The geotag is approximate.

Busarellus nigricollis

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantanal

Pixaim river, Southwild Pantanal Lodge,, Pantanal, Brazil

Nikon D500, 300mm F4 PF @F8, 1/1000, ISO 320