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Plummeting some 230 feet along a broken mile-long crescent, Iguazú Falls is simply hypnotic. Here we’ll have two nights at a hotel that actually looks straight down the “devil’s throat” at the cascade, surely one of the most scenic locations for a hotel in the world. Of course, there will be birds here, too. Among these we might find Black-faced Piping-Guan, Rufous-capped Motmot, Chestnut-eared Araçari, Toco Toucan, Blond-crested Woodpecker, Sirystes, and Sayaca Tanager. Other birds in the lush forest surrounding the falls include Surucua Trogon, Rusty-breasted Nunlet, Red-breasted Toucan, the rare Helmeted Woodpecker, White-eyed Foliage-gleaner, Rufous Gnateater, Blue Manakin, Plush-crested Jay, and Ruby-crowned Tanager—if you can tear your eyes from the white curtains of water surging off the surrounding cliffs. The multi-hued tanager tribe is especially well represented at Iguazú, and others we may see include Magpie, Guira, Black-goggled, Silver-beaked, and Green-headed Tanagers, not to mention close relatives such as Chestnut-vented Conebill, Chestnut-bellied Euphonia, Blue-naped Chlorophonia, Blue Dacnis, and Swallow Tanager. And plastered to the exposed jagged stone jaws of these enormous waterfalls are flocks of subtly-shifting, glistening-wet, roosting flocks of Great Dusky Swifts. Very few venues in the world combine such great birding with raw spectacle on the magnitude of Iguazú Falls.
Cost of the Iguazú Falls Extension
includes all accommodations, meals, ground transportation, and internal
flights, and entrance fees, beginning and ending in Sao Paulo, Brazil—$2095. $100 will be discounted if Iguazú Falls Extension
is combined with Brazil: Of Harpy Eagles & Jaguars—$8590. Photo: Toco Toucan Photo by: Rick Taylor
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