Brazil Birds (Nature Observation International)

Especially liked the waterproof coating. Heading to Brazil in less than a week and will keep this in my camera bag.

Look, it's a fold out guide that was relative inexpensive. As I recall, Brazil has over 800 birds that are indigenous to the country and another 400 that pass through. This guide does a fairly good job of covering the most frequently observable. I think that if a person is a casual birder visiting Brazil (as I am/was), the guide is very useful. With this guide, I was able to identify most (75%,?) of the birds I saw.

Brazil is a huge country and has hundreds of species of birds, but we loved the Puerto Rico guide which we used for our trip to PR, so we are confident that this guide will get a good workout when we go to Brazil next year, and sure beats carrying the full field guide in the field.

This was useful for a short visit and it is a solid and handy guide for a short visit. If you are really interested in birds though, it doesn't really cover enough of the birds of Brazil. I ended up buying another book on location. Still it was a good start!