Southeast Brazil: Atlantic Rainforest & Savanna

It is not just the allure of beaches, music, and sporting events that draws people from around the world to Southeast Brazil; the wet rainforests along the southern coast of Brazil are a birder’s delight. Separated from the Amazonian rainforests by the dry interior habitats that dominate much of the country, the birds here evolved in relative isolation, resulting in loads of endemics. Numerous spectacular antbirds, cotingas, flycatchers, and tanagers are found nowhere else. Just a hundred miles inland, the rainforest is replaced by savanna, grassland, and gallery forest with a very different set of birds and its own set of endemics. We have totally overhauled this itinerary for 2026. Since the entire trip would encompass 34 days, we have split the tour up into two parts that can be taken separately or together. The first part focuses almost entirely on forest species with some wetlands and and a bit of the coast as well. The second part offers a greater variety of habitats including the savanna, grassland, and gallery forest mentioned above along with lowland and montane rainforest; it is also better for seeing mammals.