REGUA: Day trip to the coast.

Lesser Yellowlegs.

Yellow-crowned Night-Heron and Brazilian Teal.

A day out from REGUA to the coast east of Rio de Janeiro produced a variety of birds and a change from forest birding. 

Snowy Egret.

Roseate Spoonbill.

Plenty of waders on the pools and saltpans, mostly Lesser Yellowlegs with a few Greater Yellowlegs, a couple of Pectoral Sandpipers, Ruddy Turnstones, Grey Plovers and Black-necked Stilts.

Lesser Yellowlegs and Pectoral Sandpiper.

Black Skimmers, Cayenne and Cabot's Terns (more about those here), White-cheeked Pintails and Brazilian Teals about too, before we headed to the mangroves.

Pectoral Sandpipers and Lesser Yellowlegs.

No sign of any Clapper Rails today but great views of Yellow-crowned Night-Herons to be had before heading to the beach.

Mangroves near Carbo Frio.

We birded the Restinga (a coastal scrubby woodland, threatened by development for leisure industry) where we found the rare Restinga Antwren (more on that later), Sooretama Slaty-Antshrike and Hangnest Tody-Tyrant.