For an informative overview of all our Brazil birding tours, see Brazil: Field Guides Tours.

"Northeast Brazil" is a really big piece of turf. Geographically, it covers all of that chunk sticking out into the Atlantic, but biogeographically, and specifically in terms of bird distributions, it casts an even greater compass. Thus, from southern Bahia far to the west, where biomes range from humid Atlantic Forest through caatinga and cerrado woodland to the edges of Amazonia, there are one heckuva lot of endemic birds, some of them among the most endangered species on the continent, many of them among the most range-restricted in the world. Would you like to see them all? You bet you would! That's why we pioneered birding tourism in Northeast Brazil twenty years ago and why we're continuing to expand our (your!) horizons there.

Let's start with White-collared Kite, Lear's Macaw, Hooded Visorbearer, Pygmy Nightjar, Great Xenops, Pink-legged Graveteiro, Silvery-cheeked Antshrike, Fringe-backed Fire-eye, Araripe Manakin, and Seven-colored Tanager among hundreds of others (Part 1), and then take on Orinoco Goose, Hook-billed Hermit, Plain-tailed Nighthawk, White-winged Potoo, Kaempfer's Woodpecker, Moustached Woodcreeper, Bananal Antbird, Sao Francisco Black-Tyrant, Banded Cotinga, and an undescribed species of spinetail among many more (Part II). And for the second year in a row, we'll be going after the enigmatic Stresemann's Bristlefront (Part II). With only a few individuals known to survive, it is truly one of the rarest birds on Earth -- but boy did we see it well on the 2013 tour!

Hummingbird fans! See our Hummer Slideshow plus a listing of all our best itineraries for 30, 40, even 50 or more hummingbirds on a tour.

Beaches to Badlands (Part I), at 18 days, includes almost all of our traditional route through the states of Pernambuco, Alagoas, Ceara, and northern Bahia to end in Salvador. West to the Araguaia (Part II), at 19 days, commences with birding through southern coastal and interior Bahia (including three days taken from our traditional itinerary around species-rich Boa Nova) then jumps west to the Rio Sao Francisco valley of northern Minas Gerais before wrapping up with several fabulous days based in a very comfortable lodge to bird the pantanal-like marshes and woodlands of the fabled Rio Araguaia. Even if (or especially if!) you have participated in a past Northeast Brazil tour, our new West to the Araguaia itinerary is one you'll want to consider. So, next January, grab your bin's and pack some light clothes (don't forget your flip-flops) and leave Old Man Winter at your doorstep to join Bret, Marcelo, and Pepe for a fabulous journey through Northeast Brazil.

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