What’s your favourite hen species?
Swallow-tailed Kite – they’re so swish and in our space they’re migratory, we regularly see the primary ones for my son’s Birthday, on tenth September.
What’s your identify, and the place do you reside?
Man Cox – I stay in Misiones Province, Argentina
Black-breasted Plovercrest
What are the principle areas or places you cowl as a hen information?
Primarily the Atlantic Forest of Misiones, together with the Upland Araucaria forest; additionally grasslands of southern Misiones, Chaco, and Iberá wetlands.
Inexperienced-headed Tanager
How lengthy have you ever been a hen information?
Over thirty years!
Helmeted Woodpecker (male)
How did you get into hen guiding?
My father’s curiosity in nature, and going to Amboro Nationwide Park in Bolivia
Crimson-breasted or Inexperienced-billed Toucan
What are the points of being a hen information that you simply like greatest? Which points do you dislike most?
I like the chance to fulfill a variety of attention-grabbing and knowledgeable folks, discuss a lot of various things, and really feel I’m making a distinction. I really like folks’s enthusiasm, particularly once they see a brand new hen.
What I dislike is having to do all the executive issues like reserving lodges and figuring out prices.
Saffron Toucanet
What are the highest 5-10 birds in your area that you simply suppose are essentially the most attention-grabbing for visiting birders?
There are some nice Atlantic Forest upland endemics that individuals come to see – like Vinaceous-breasted Parrot, Canebrake Groundcreeper (laborious to see!) Araucaria Tit-Spinetail, Inexperienced-billed Toucan; additionally colourful birds like Surucua Trogon and Inexperienced-headed Tanager, endemics like Atlantic Black-throated Trogon, Saffron Toucanet and Black-breasted Plovercrest, rarities like Helmeted Woodpecker and naturally, the enduring Black-fronted Piping-Guan.
Canebrake Groundcreeper
Are you able to define at the least one typical birdwatching journey in your space? Please briefly describe the places, the important thing birds, and the approximate length of such a visit
There’s a one-day journey I’ve executed many instances, leaving Puerto Iguazú early within the morning and arriving on the Uruzu bridge in Uruguaí Provincial Park in time to see the Black-fronted Piping Guans, then stroll the loop path, popping out round lunchtime. We eat within the small city of Andresito then drive by Iguazú Nationwide Park, arriving again in time to go to the Hummingbird Backyard in Iguazú.
Black-fronted Piping Guan
What different options are you able to give to birders occupied with your space?
Summers (late September to March) are the most effective time to come back due to the hen exercise and presence of migrants, however this time of 12 months could be highly regarded, wet, and with loads of mosquitoes. Don’t neglect to go to the unbelievable and distinctive Iguazú Falls when you’re right here!
Surucua Trogon
If any reader of 10,000 Birds is occupied with birding with you, how can they greatest contact you?
They will go to my web site – www.toucanbirding.com or write on to [email protected]
Vinaceous Amazon
Is there the rest you wish to share with the readers of 10,000 Birds?
Solely 4% of the unique Atlantic Forest nonetheless stays and, in accordance with The Nature Conservancy, it is among the 10 most necessary and threatened Biomes worldwide. In Misiones, Argentina, about half the unique forest cowl stays, making this pure space, which was as soon as only a small nook of the entire forest, now one of many largest, greatest conserved and most accessible locations to go to this extraordinary wildlife vacation spot. Good birding and, see you quickly!
Araucaria Tit-Spinetail
Photograph credit: all pictures Martjan Lammertinck besides Inexperienced-headed Tanager and Swallow-tailed Kite Ramón Moller Jensen
