Amazon

The Brazilian Amazon is the richest birding on Earth, and no two corners of it are the same.

The great rivers—the Madeira, Tapajós, Negro, and the Amazon itself—slice the forest into distinct interfluves, each an evolutionary world with birds found nowhere else: cross a river, and the avifauna changes.

From the western endemics of the Rondônia and Acre interfluvium and the legendary Rio Roosevelt, to the five Amazonias of Pará, to the canopy towers of Manaus and the white-sand forests and savannas of Roraima, this is birding at its deepest, with the longest checklists we run. It is also the homeland of countless riverine and Indigenous communities whose knowledge underpins safe travel here. Because the Amazon rewards small groups and care, our Amazonian tours run to a maximum of six participants.