Rick Simpson Birding Services

Had a run up to Biritiba Mirim today, recently the São Paulo Antwrens have been absent from my regular site, so I went to check it out. I found that the site has been even more degraded than before, there is work being carried out on the road, and a digger has made huge holes in the ground where I always used to enter the site. Although it wasn’t impossible to find another way in, I went instead to a site the other side of Biritiba Mirim where I have not visited before, having had no necessity to do so.

Female São Paulo Antwren.

Female São Paulo Antwren.

Female SãoPaulo Antwren.

We found two seperate female birds, they responded to playback, but did not call at all, instead they came in silently. No males were seen on this occasion.

Photographs on this page © Rick and Elis Simpson.