Birding Brazil Tours

Birding Brazil Tours is owned by Andrew Whittaker and his wife Nadime and we are based in Brazil at Manaus, Amazonas. We have been organising exciting customised worry-free birding and nature tours throughout Brazil for 13 years, having worked with the BBC wildlife unit on the famous "Life Of Bird" series and received excellent coverage in many leading newspapers world-wide including the New York Times. Our staff look forward very much to working with you!

Birding Brazil Tours operate as "in country ground agents" for most of the major birding tour companies from the US and Europe and increasingly for private independant birders and nature lovers alike. We also cater for amateur non professional small groups of bird watchers, nature lovers, general eco-tourists and photographic tour companies World wide.

Being based within Brazil allows us to offer carefully designed competitive priced, excellent value tours to well known localities, as well we are constantly developing many new destinations. We pride ourselves on our 17 years in country birding experience, personalised services, professionalism and people skills. We would be only to pleased to help you plan your holiday of a lifetime, please feel free to enquire about our booking services, car hire or our excellent professional birding guides if required. Click here to Contact us.

Andrew Whittaker is Birding Brazils director and a leading Neotropical ornithologist and an authority on Brazilian Birds. He is a full time professional international bird leader for Victor Emanuel Nature Tours and is a very active conservationist. Andy has worked in Brazil for both the Smithsonian Institution and World Wildlife Federation and his great knowledge of bird vocalizations has enabled him to discovered new birds to science, re-discovered 3 species thought lost to science and add 16 birds to the Brazilian list. Andy has several scientific publications to his name and is currently at work with Kevin Zimmer on a comprehensive field guide to the birds of Brazil.

Nadime Whittaker, Andrew's wife and business partner manages the company office in Manaus. Together we feel we have assembled a very efficient office staff and in the field we have some of the leading birding guides in Brazil working for us. This unique team combination allows Birding Brazil Tours to offer you the best services available for your Brazilian birding or wildlife holiday.

Our 17 year's experience in Brazil and intimate knowledge of the wondrous birding and wildlife sites make our company the ideal choice to help you organize your tailor-made birding or wildlife trip. Please let us help you organize a wonderful once-in-a-lifetime holiday experience.

Dr Jim Hackett, Hong Kong 2001. It was an AMAZING 54 day trip. I'd have to pick the competence of the guides as the highlight. Braulio, Luciano, and Ricardo were just terrific. I'd have to say that Ricardo is just steller. What an incredible birder. I got 170 ticks on this my second Brazil trip with Birding Brazil Tours, and the quality was simply stunning!

Dr David Bates, USA 2003 I wanted to thank you again for setting up our Brazil trip we had a marvelous time, Fabiano was terrific, and ended up with 243 birds and 17 mammals, highly memorable. Food and Lodgings were terrific, thanks so much.

We pride ourselves in the quality of our leaders, all birding guides are bilingual and use tape recorders and pre-made bird tapes to locate those special endemics birds and skulkers your all after. Most important they enjoy showing you the birds and have a great knowledge of all other nature to be encounterd on your trip.

Ricardo Parrini
Ricardo is a graduate from Gama Filho University in Rio and one of the leading Brazilian bird experts, especially the Atlantic rainforest endemics of SE Brazil and the caatinga birds of NE Brazi. Ricardo has several publications to his name. His greatest birding discovery shook the Neotropical bird world when he re-discovery the amazing Kinglet Calyptura, thought to be extinct since 1852! Ricardo has a great ear and amazing knowledge of bird vocalizations throughout Brazil. He is a full time bird guide and enjoys not only finding and showing birds to groups but also observing and showing insights into their behaviour. His passion is for bird voice, biogeography and in his spare time he is working with friends on updating the Rio de Janeiro state bird list.

Braulio Carlos Is a very experienced full time birding and naturalist guide. Braulio has led groups for more than 11 years in Mato Grosso and other parts of Brazil. He has a masters degree in Ecology and is fluent in no less than 4 languages. Braulio started birding at a early age and gets great enjoyment from meeting people and showing them nature. Braulio has become the birding authority for Mato Grosso state where with his great knowledge of bird vocalizations has made many exciting discoveries and recorded several new state records. He is involved in many scientific studies in the Pantanal region, helping to preserve this amazing wildlife spectacle. Braulio's passion is for travelling and lives in Cuiaba with his wife and young son.

Luciano Naka
Started birding at the early age of 13 in Argentina and moved to Brazil in 1994. His University work involved the study of both the Atlantic and Amazonian rainforest birds. Luciano just finished his masters degree in Manaus, where he studied canopy birds of the rainforest. Luciano is fluent in three languages and enjoys meeting people and sharing with them nature, especially birds. His first book is published on the natural history of the birds of Santa Catarina state and also has several publications on the threatened birds of the Atlantic forests. Luciano lives in Manaus and enjoys travelling around the Amazon region and leading groups.