Amazon Birdwatching and Floating Lodge Experience

After checking into the lodge, you will be exploring the surrounding on a small motor boat. From the boat you will be able to observe a variety of birds and animals.

Your first birdwatching tour of the day will take in the early hours of the morning because birds are highly active during this time. After breakfast, you will go on a trail that will take you through the Varzea forest, where you will be able to find birds such as the Scarlet-crowned Barbet or the White-throated Toucan. You will also be able to find animals such sloths and Uakarai monkeys.

In the afternoon, you will be walking on another trail through the Varzea forest in order to find birds like Zimmer's Woodcreepers or the elusive Zigzag Heron. After dinner, you may be able to go out on the canoe in search of night birds.

Flooding season: After breakfast, you take a boat to the Apara Channel. You will be able to see a variety of birds that are only there during this season. In the afternoon, you will canoe through the Varzea forest, which will be flooded, and look for more birds that are found in the area.

You will once again go birdwatching early in the morning and you will head towards Varzea forest. This time you may be able to get a better look at birds you have already seen or take few photographs.

In the afternoon, you will ride on a boat towards Mamirauá Lake and get the chance to see Uakari Monkeys, Black Caimans, Horned Screamer, etc.

It will be dark by the time you start heading back to the lodge, which will give you the opportunity to see night birds such as the Great Potoo and the Tawny-bellied, and Black-banded Owls.

Once again you will be leaving early in the morning to observe birds. On this day, you will mostly be birdwatching by the river edge of Solimoes River, specifically the islands found in the river, in seaarch of species that only live in this particular habitat.

In the afternoon, you will explore one more trail near the lodge.

Flooding season: If the water level is too high, you may not be able to explore the Solimoes River. In the afternoon, you will explore the trail near the lodge in a canoe.

You will have a short outing in the morning before breakfast. After breakfast, you will check-out of the lodge and transfer back to Tefe airport in time to catch your flight back to Manaus.

Dry Season

Boat Tour: Crax globulosa, Porphyrio Martinica (most likely seen from January to April), Amazona festiva

Night tour: Nyctibius grandis, Nyctibius griseus, Tyto alba

Trails: Crax globulosa, Zebrilus undulatus, Galbula tombacea, Capito aurovirens, Ramphastos tucanus, Ramphastos vitellinus, Picumnus lafresnayi, Nasica longirostris, Sakesphorus canadenses, Dendroplex kienerii, Schiffornis major

Canoe tour in shores: Crax globulosa, Amazona festiva, Ramphastos tucanus, Ramphastos vitellinus, Gymnoderus foetidus

Island trails: Cephalopterus ornatus, Myrmochanes hemileucus, Furnarius minor, Certhiaxis mustelinus, Cranioleuca vulpecula

Mamiraua Lake: Anhima cornuta, Agamia agami, Amazona festiva, Opistochomus hoazin, Gymnoderus foetidus, Certhiaxis mustelinus, Cranioleuca vulpecula

Night tour after lake visit: Cochlearius cochlearius, Hydropsalis leucopyga, Hydropsalis climacocerca, Nyctibius gandis, Nyctibius griseus, Tyto alba

Flooding Season

Apara boat tour: Crax globulosa, Amazona festiva, Opistochomus hoazin, Galbacyrhynchus leucotis, Ramphastos tucanus, Ramphastos vitellinus, Gymnoderus foetidus, Sakesphorus Canadensis

Boat tour: Ara macao, Porphyrio Martinica, Amazona festiva, Capito aurovirens, Ramphastos tucanus, Ramphastos vitellinus, Gymnoderus foetidus

Canoes in floodplain forest: Galbula tombacea, Capito aurovirens, Ramphastos tucanus, Ramphastos vitellinus, Nasica longirostris

Mamiraua Lake: Anhima cornuta, Amazona festiva, Opistochomus hoazin, Gymnoderus foetidus, Certhiaxis mustelinus, Cranioleuca vulpecula

Night tour after lake visit: Hydropsalis leucopyga, Hydropsalis climacocerca, Nyctibius gandis, Nyctibius griseus, Tyto alba

Rare species: Harpia harpyja, Pteroglossus azara, Picumnus lafresnayi, Myrmotherula assimilis, Pipra filicauda

We would like to thank the following photographers for providing us with the picture for this experience:

• Marcelo Santana

• Pedro Nassar

• Erik Snoeijers

• Jessica Dos Anjos

• Rafael Forte

• Eduardo Coelho