Serra do Cipó.
Cipó Canastero. Photo ₢ Andrew Cooke.
Serra do Cipó became famous when a new species of Canastero was found there in the mid 1980’s. It is a good site for some specialised endemic highland species such as Hyacinth Visorbearer, Grey-backed Tachuri and Buff-throated Pampa-Finch.
The upper section of the park is open rocky grassland where the Cipó Canastero and the other specialists can be found. The lower park is more scrubby woodland with open areas where Helmeted Manakin and Mouse-coloured Tyrannulet can be found.
Yellow-billed Blue Finch. Photo ₢ Andrew Cooke.
Grey-backed Tachuri. Photo ₢ Andrew Cooke.
Birds to look out for include: Small-billed and Red-winged Tinamous, Whistling Heron, Lesser Yellow-headed and King Vultures, White-tailed Kite, Rufous-thighed Hawk, White-tailed Hawk, American Kestrel, Red-legged Seriema, Scaled Dove, White-eyed, Peach-fronted and Yellow-chevroned Parakeets, Ferruginous Pygmy Owl, Pauraque, Planalto Hermit, White-vented Violetear, Glittering-bellied Emerald, Fork-tailed Woodnymph, Hyacinth Visorbearer, Horned Sungem, Amethyst Woodstar, White-eared Puffbird, Toco Toucan, White Woodpecker, Sooty-fronted Spinetail, Cipó Canastero, Rufous-fronted and Great Thornbirds, Firewood Gatherer, Planalto Slaty Antshrike, Black-capped Antwren, Helmeted Manakin, Grey, Lesser and Highland Elaenias, White-crested and Mouse-coloured Tyrannulets, Grey-backed Tachuri, Grey and White-rumped Monjitas, Streamer-tailed Tyrant, White-throated Kingbird, Fork-tailed, Short-crested and Brown-crested Flycatchers, Brwon-chested Martin, Hellmayr’s Pipit, Curl-crested Jay, Purple-throated Euphonia, White-bellied and Flavescent Warblers, Cinnamon, White-rumped, Hooded and Burnished-buff Tanagers, Pileated Finch, Cinereous Warbling-Finch, Yellow-bellied Seedeater, Wedge-tailed Grass-Finch, Pale-throated Sierra-Finch, Great Pampa Finch, Grassland Sparrow, Black-throated Saltator, Yellow-billed Blue Finch, Yellow-rumped Marshbird and Copi Blackbird.
