Our final trail hike of the tour took us along the Tracoa Trail, which proved to be a little slow. It took a while to actually see any birds at all and there wasn’t much calling at all for ages. Eventually, we tracked down a calling Barred Forest-Falcon, followed by a cracking Amazonian Antshrike, Striped Woodcreeper, Band-tailed Antbird, Dot-winged Antwren and Glossy Antshrike along a pretty productive section of trail.
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| Barred Forest Falcon |
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| Dot-winged Antwren |
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| Striped Woodcreeper |
Walking back and we saw a fantastic Long-billed Woodcreeper very well, but a Hauxwell’s Thrush just flew around us without perching in the open at all. A short while later a Rose-breasted Chat did the same frustrating thing, whilst a Long-tailed Hermit appeared.
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| This monster is a Long-billed Woodcreeper. Wow! |
But we didn’t go out with a whimper as we had a pair of Moustached Wrens, Long-billed Gnatwren at point-blank range and ended the tour with nice views of Amazonian Antpitta again (incredible huh).
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| Long-billed Gnatwren |
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| Amazonian Antpitta |
All that remained was to return to the lodge, shower, pack and have lunch before loading the luggage onto the bus and driving back to Itaituba. Here we had a private charter 9-seat Sessna plane to take us back to Manaus. The flight took around 85 minutes and flew the entire journey over the Amazonian rainforest, which was only broken up by numerous rivers, lakes and side channels making for a fascinating and eye-opening journey.
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| Obligatory end of tour selfies.... |
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| Another view of the river.... |
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| Our private charter back to Manaus |
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| One last selfie.... |
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| The views over the Amazon were mind-blowing. Just mile after mile of river and rainforest for a solid 75 mins... |
Upon arrival at our hotel in Manaus we shared one final beer together before departing our separate ways.
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| One last self-indulgent sunrise photo before wrapping up another successful tour.... |
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