Where can you see the Blond-crested Woodpecker?
Some of the best places to see the Blond-crested Woodpecker in the wild include Chapada dos Guimarães National Park (Brazil), Tijuca National Park (Brazil) and Araucárias National Park (Brazil) — among 11 wildlife hotspots across Brazil. Every hotspot below shows real sighting data and the best seasons to visit.
Araucárias National Park
Brazil
+231 birds+3 mammals
Where the southern Brazilian highlands rise into cool temperate forest, Araucárias National Park protects one of the Atlantic Forest's most distinctive ecosystems across 506 square kilometres…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKBrasília National Park
Plano Piloto, Brazil
+338 birds+15 mammals
Cerrado grassland and scattered woodland sweep across the central Brazilian plateau where this national park sprawls across more than a thousand square kilometres of the Federal…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKChapada dos Guimarães National Park
Brazil
+450 birds+1 mammals
Where weathered sandstone plateaus rise above the cerrado grasslands of central Brazil, Chapada dos Guimarães National Park protects 624 square kilometres of ecological transition zone that…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKIguaçu National Park
Brazil
+387 birds+17 mammals
Where the Paraná Plateau plunges toward the Atlantic watershed, six thousand square kilometers of subtropical rainforest cling to steep gorges and river valleys in this corner…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKItatiaia National Park
Brazil
+519 birds+12 mammals
Where granite peaks pierce the Atlantic rainforest canopy in southeastern Brazil, Itatiaia National Park rises as one of the country's oldest and most ecologically vital protected…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKSaint-Hilaire/Lange National Park
Brazil
+225 birds
Subtropical Atlantic forests rise and fall across the plateaus of inland Paraná, where Saint-Hilaire/Lange National Park protects nearly 578 square kilometres of Brazil's most biodiverse woodland…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKSerra da Bocaina National Park
Brazil
+441 birds+5 mammals
Where the escarpment of the Serra da Bocaina rises sharply from the Atlantic coastal plain, tropical rainforest cloaks steep mountainsides that climb toward peaks exceeding 2,000…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKSerra do Itajaí National Park
Brazil
+227 birds+2 mammals
Where the Atlantic rainforest rises steeply from the coastal plains of Santa Catarina, Serra do Itajaí National Park spreads across 1,136 square kilometres of montane wilderness…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKSerra dos Órgãos National Park
Brazil
+446 birds+13 mammals
Granite peaks thrust skyward through the Atlantic Forest canopy in the mountains immediately north of Rio de Janeiro, their bare rock faces rising above a landscape…
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