Sao Paulo Birding

16/04/2025

🌿 Big news for nature tourism in Brazil!
This week, during WTM Latin America 2025, the TOVS (National Association for Wildlife Watching Tourism) was officially launched. The association brings together professionals and organizations dedicated to responsible and sustainable wildlife observation — including birdwatching. 🐦🇧🇷

With support from Embratur and other national institutions, TOVS aims to strengthen the sector, promote best practices, and connect biodiversity conservation with local development.

📝 There is a full post (in Portuguese) on the Brasil das Aves blog.
👉 https://brasildasaves.com.br/2025/04/16/brasil-ganha-associacao-dedicada-ao-turismo-de-observacao-de-vida-silvestre-conheca-a-tovs/

Durante a WTM Latin America 2025, realizada em São Paulo, foi lançada oficialmente a TOVS – Associação Nacional de Turismo de Observação de Vida Silvestre. A entidade nasce com o propósito de artic…

05/08/2020

This video shows São Paulo details during the the new coronavirus pandemic. In the city there is a building where birds "stick" every day. There is also the ...

28/07/2020

Amid the bad, bad news about the environment in Brazil, there is at least a good one: forest coverage has increased by almost 5% in São Paulo state. (in portuguese)

Ilhabela, Iporanga e Pedro de Toledo emergiram como os municípios paulistas com maior área de vegetação nativa, respectivamente com 94,1%, 90,9% e 90%, de acordo com a versão mais recente do Inventário florestal do estado de São Paulo, lançada nesta quinta-feira (23/7). Inversamente, São Ca...

08/07/2020

We are proud of our association with Everton Miranda who is working diligently to complete his PhD on Harpy Eagles in the Matto Grosso region of Brazil. Everton's work focuses on understanding the Harpy Eagles’ role in the Amazon ecosystem, as well as improving the local community’s relationship with Harpy Eagles by demonstrating how eco-tourism can aide in local economic development. His study complements our work on Harpy Eagles and community-based conservation in Darien, Panama.

Everton sent us this incredible photograph, from his study site, which was captured by one of his camera traps. This is a female Harpy Eagle delivering a sub-adult Woolly Monkey (Lagothrix cana) to the nest. The Peregrine Fund wishes Everton all the very best in his PhD submission.

Learn more about our work with students around the world: https://peregrinefund.org/projects/higher-education

01/07/2020

What a story...

The Bird of Washington Falco washingtoniiAudubon, 1827, was a new species of eagle published in the opening plates of John James Audubon's influential work, The birds of America (1827–38). It was the first plate engraved by Robert Havell Jr. and the first new species Audubon described in his caree...

28/06/2020

Nice!

Bird-watching has surged in popularity during the pandemic. It’s easy to start, and you can do it anywhere — even from inside, and even in urban spaces.

03/03/2020

A free birding tour with a group in a great public park.

09/01/2020

Good article.

Birdwatching changed in a variety of ways in the 2010s, from how we watch birds to how scientists study them to media representations of birds.

21/10/2019

28/11/2018

A jewel from Atlantic Rainforest.

08/10/2018

Some pictures taken at Sitio Folha Seca, an awesome hotspot in Ubatuba (north coast of São Paulo State)