Goiás
Permission to stay at the park headquarters must be obtained from IBAMA. (tel. (64) 6341704). The Fundação Emas femas@emas.org.br , an NGO concerned with the conservation of the park, can tell you how to go about this. Visitors must be accompanied by a guide at all times. We hired Celeste celeste@cultura.com.br for R$50 (US$25) per day plus her car expenses to come to the park from her home in Mineiros. Celeste knew her way around the park well, had a fair knowledge about the wildlife and, very kindly, bought all the provisions for us in advance and did the cooking.
The park headquarters now has a telephone: (64) 6341704.
White-winged nightjar Caprimulgus candicans can readily be found along the road north from the park headquarters, in cerrado with short grass and no trees. It perches 30-50cm above ground on plants or anthills. We found two pairs of large-billed antwren Herpsilochmus longirostris in gallery forest near the southwest corner of the park.
The pfrimeri race of white-eared parakeet Pyrrhura leucotis is common along the first 10km of the road from Nova Roma to Iaciara. This beautiful little parakeet surely deserves to be split on the basis of its distinctive plumage and disjunct population. Brazilian black-tyrant Knipolegus franciscanus occurs in the same semi-deciduous woodland along the rocky hills that adjoin the road. The Hotel Sampaio in Nova Roma is simple but hospitable.
