Hummingbirds are very frequent visitors to our garden, it's great to watch them have a bath on the banana plant leaves after the sprinklers have been on.
One of our garden birds (Masked Water-Tyrant) checking out the swimming pool.
The view from our upstairs terrace is a small strip of Atlantic Rainforest (Mata Atlântica) that abounds with birds.
A few of the birds that we have already been able to identify include Pied Water-Tyrant, Greater and Smooth billed Ani, Sombre and Swallow-tailed hummingbirds, Fork-tailed wood nymph, Illiger's Macaw, Great Kiskadee, Toby Flycatcher, Black Vulture, Ruddy-ground Dove, Burrowing Owl, Guira Cuckoo and Squirrel Cuckoo
Bird Watching Brazil
Planning a bird watching trip to the Amazon or Pantanal. Many guests who stay with us love the luxury and comfort here at Roanna before or after roughing it in areas where amenities maybe sparse and few, they also top up their birding lists with our beautiful local birds. Internal flights are very reasonably prices here in Brazil and Maceio has flight connection with all the Brazilian cities. Also just a short drive from Roanna is the Murici nature reserve The American Bird Conservancy describes Murici as “probably the most important place for bird conservation in the Western Hemisphere” due to its extraordinary density of unique birds, including six endangered and five critically endangered bird species” The following endangered and critically endangered birds inhabit Murici: Alagoas foliage gleaner, Alagoas antwren, Alagoas tyrannulet, White-collared kite, Plain spinetail, Seven-color tanager, Orange-bellied antwren, Golden-tailed parrotlet, Scalloped antbird, Buff-throated purpletuft, White-winged cotinga.
Some of the birds that are potentially to be found in the state of Alagoas include.
| Solitary Tinamou | Spotted Nothura | Spotted-winged Wood-Quail | White-bellied Chachalaca |
| Yellow-legged Tinamou | Striped Cuckoo | Fork-tailed Woodnymph | Scaled Pigeon |
| Red-winged Tinamou | Squirrel Cuckoo | Sombre Hummingbird | Picazuro Pigeon |
| Small-billed Tinamou | Dark billed Cuckoo | Swallowed-tailed Hummingbird | Pale-vented Pigeon |
| Horned Screamer | Pearly-breasted Cuckoo | Amethyst Woodstar | Plumbeous Pigeon |
| Golden-spangled Piculet | Guira Cuckoo | Frilled Coquette | Scaled Dove |
| Green-barred Woodpecker | Smooth-billed Ani | Black throated Mango | Common Ground Dove |
| Little Woodpecker | Greater Ani | Blue chinned Sapphire | Ruddy Ground Dove |
| Golden-green Woodpecker | Pheasant Cuckoo | Glitter-billed Emerald | Blue Ground Dove |
| Crimson-crested Woodpecker | Illiger's Macaw | White-chinned Sapphire | Plain Breasted Ground Dove |
| Lineated Woodpecker | Canary-winged Parakeet | Versicolored Emerald | Eared Dove |
| Campo Flicker | Blue-winged Parrotlet | Glitter-throated Emerald | Picui Ground Dove |
| White Woodpecker | Blue-headed Parrot | White-tailed Golden throat | Ruddy Quail Dove |
| Channel-billed Toucan | Scaly-headed Parrot | Great Horned Owl | Violaceous Quail -Dove |
| White-eared Puffbird | Orange-winged Amazon | Tropical Screech Owl | White tipped Dove |
| Sallow-wing Mirasol | Lesser swallow-tailed Swift | Black banded Owl | Gray fronted Dove |
| White-fronted Nunbird | Folk-tailed Palm Swift | Ferruginous Pygmy Owl | Long-winged Haarrier |
| Blue-crowned Trogon | Ashy-tailed Swift | Striped Owl | Crested Eagle |
| Ringed Kingfisher | Grey-rumped Swift | Burrowing Owl | Plumbeous Kite |
| Amazon Kingfisher | Rufous-breasted Hermit | Common Potoo | Gray-headed Kite |
| Green and rufous Kingfisher | Planalto Hermit | Semi-collard Nighthawk | Snail Kite |
| Pygmy Kingfisher | Redish Hermit | Nacunda Nighthawk. | Tiny Hawk |
| Green Kingfisher | Black Jacobin | Common Nighthawk | Sharp-shinned Hawk |
| Little Wood-Rail | Wattled Jacana | Lesser Nighthawk | Hook-billed Hawk |
| Gray-necked Wood-Rail | Purple Gallinule | Pauraque | Rufous-thighed Kite |
| Giant Wood-Rail | Common Gallinule | Ocellated Poorwill | Double-toothed Kite |
| Blackish Rail | Spot-flanked Gallinule | Rufous Nightjar | Bicolored Hawk |
| Spotted Rail | Ash-throated Crake | Scissor-tailed Nightjar | Roadside Hawk |
| Clapper Rail | Rufous-sided Crake | Little Nightjar | White-tailed Hawk |
| Limpkin | Yellow-breasted Crake | South American Snipe | Gray Hawk |
| White Rumped Sandpiper | Russet-crowned Crake | Wilson's Snipe | Crane Hawk |
| Solitary Sandpiper | Ruddy Turnstone | Southern Lapwing | Zone-tailed Hawk |
| Spotted Sandpiper | Sanderling | Pied Lapwing | Short-tailed Hawk |
| Upland Sandpiper | Semiplamated Plover | American Oystercatcher | Black collard Hawk |
| Pectoral Sandpiper | Collarrd Plover | Osprey | Savanna Hawk |
| Anhinga | Black Vulture | Southern Beardless Tyrannulet | Rufous-crab Hawk |
| Neotropic Cormorant | Lesser Yellow Headed Vulture | Yellow-breasted Flycatcher | Bay-winged Hawk |
| Boat-billed Heron | Turkey Vulture | Euler's Flycatcher | White-tailed Kite |
| Yellow-crowned Night Heron | King Vulture | Fuscous Flycatcher | Swallow-tailed Kite |
| White necked Herton | Jabiru Stork | Yellow-bellied Elaenia | Great-black Hawk |
| Great Egret | Maguari Stork | Bran-colored Flycatcher | Ornate Hawk Eagle |
| Snowy Egret | Wood Stork | Sulphur-rumped Flycatcher | Black Hawk Eagle |
| Capped Heron | Sepia capped Flycatcher | Vermilion Flycatcher | American Kestrel |
| Striated Heron | Common Tody Flycatcher | Masked Water Tyrant | Bat Falcon |
| Little Blue Heron | Yellow Tyrannulet | White-headed Marsh-Tyrant | Pearl Kite |
| Least Bittern | Planalto Tyrannulet | Long-tailed Tyrant | Yellow-headed Caracara |
| Pinnated Bittern | White-throated Spadebill | Cliff Flycatcher | Collared Forest Falcon |
| Rufescent Tiger-Heron | Gray-crowned Flycatcher | Cattle Tyrant | Barred Forest Falcon |
| Roseate Spoonbill | Olivaceous Flatbill | Brown-crested Flycatcher | Crested Caracara |
| Cattle Egret | Yellow-olive Flycatcher | Short-crested Flycatcher | Laughing Falcon |
| Bare Faced Ibis | Tawney-crowned Pygmy Flycatcher | Variegated Flycatcher | Peregrine Falcon |
| Buff-necked Ibis | Gray Elaenia | Swanson's Flycatcher | Aplomando Falcon |
| Black-capped Becard | Bare-throated Bellbird | Piratic Flycatcher | Olivaceous Woodcreeper |
| Green-backed Becard | Blue-backed Manakin | Boat-billed Flycatcher | White-throated Woodcreeper |
| White-winged Becard | Red-headed Manakin | Great Kiskadee | Planalto Woodcreeper |
| Black-crowned Tityra | White-bearded Manakin | Vermilion-crowned Flycatcher | Buff-throated Woodcreeper |
| Black-tailed Tityra | Great Antshrike | Red-eyed Vireo | Lesser Woodcreeper |
| White-winged Cotinga | Variable Antshrick | Black-capped Mocking Thrush | Long-billed Gnatwren |
| White-fringed Antwren | Slaty Antshrick | Chalk-browed Mockingbird | Barn Swallow |
| Rufous-winged Antwren | White-banded Hornero | Tropical Mockingbird | Southern Rough-winged Swallow |
| White-shouldered Fire-eye | Black-capped Foliage-gleaner | Creamy-bellied Thrush | Bank Swallow |
| Black-tailed Leafscraper | Chotoy Spinetail | Pale-breasted Thush | Brown-chested Martin |
| Rufous-breasted Leafscraper | White-eyed Foliage-gleaner | Rufous-bellied Thrush | Cliff Swallow |
| Tawny-throated Leafscraper | Pale-browed Treehunter | White-necked Thrush | Purple Martin |
| Variegated Antpitta | Yellow-throated Spinetail | Cocoa Thrush | Blue-and-white Swallow |
| Rufous Gnateater | Plain Xenops | House Wren | White-winged Swallow |
| Black-cheeked Gnateater | Streak Xenops | Long-billed Wren | Gray-breasted Martin |
| Rufous-crowned Greenlet | Red-eyed Thornbird | Moustrached Wren | Pectoral Sparrow |
| Magpie Tanager | Rufous-browed Peppershrike | Yellowish Pipit | Grassland Sparrow |
| Masked Yellowthroat | Purple-throated Euphonia | Red-rumped Cacique | Rufous-collard Sparrow |
| Tropical Parula | Vioaceous Euphonia | Crested Oropendola | House Sparrow |
| Scarlet-throated Tanager | Blue Dacnis | Epaulet Oriole | |
| Burbished-buff Tanager | Green Honeycreeper | Campo Oriole | |
| Silvery-breasted Tanager | Red-legged Honeycreeper | Shiny Cowbird | |
| Yellow-backed Tanager | Chestnut-vented Conebill | Chopi Blackbird | |
| Swallow Tanager | Bananaquit | ||
| Black-faced Tanager | Lesser Seed Finch | ||
| Cinnamon Tanager | Great-billed Seed Finch | ||
| Rufous-headed Tanager | Sooty Grassquit | ||
| Hooded Tangager | Wedge-tailed Grass-Finch | ||
| Orange-headed Tanager | Capped Seedeater | ||
| Flame-crested Tanager | Saffron Finch | ||
| Brazilian Tanager | Yellow-bellied Seedeater | ||
| Red-crowned Ant-Tanager | Blue-black Grassquit | ||
| Golden-Chevroned Tahager | White-bellied Seedeater | ||
| Fawn-breasted Tanager | Ultramarine Grosbeak | ||
| Palm tanager | Buff-throated Satator | ||
| Sayaca Tanager | Yellow-green Grosbeak | approximately 340 species |