Month: September 2022

Brazil’s Atlantic Forest Tanagers

Mondo Verde Expeditions
July 8-26, 2022
Photos by Bob Gress / Birds in Focus
In my previous PhotoBlast, Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, I included some very colorful birds. In addition to a few mammals, it featured some parakeets, hummingbirds, toucans and trogons. Anyone looking through a Brazil bird book will notice another group of birds, the tanagers

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Brazil’s Atlantic Forest

Mondo Verde Expeditions
July 8-26, 2022
Photos by Bob Gress / Birds in Focus
Brazil’s Atlantic Forest is one of the most threatened environments in the world. Following five centuries of European colonization less than 16% of the Atlantic Forest remains today, and much of that is highly fragmented. Two of Brazil’s largest cities, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro

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