2007 Rio Japurá Expedition Gallery

From 5 July - 5 August 2007, PIs Jason Weckstein (Staff Scientist, FMNH Bird Division), John Bates (Associate Curator, FMNH Bird Division and Alexandre Aleixo (Curator of Birds, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi [MPEG]), MPEG graduate students Elinete Rodrigues and Maya S. Faccio, Marcos Pérsio (Professor, Universidade Federal do Piauí [now Universidade do Pará]), and MPEG technicians Nilton Santa Brígida and Manoel Santa Brígida conducted a joint expedition to study birds and their parasites along the Rio Japurá in Amazonas, Brazil.

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Alexandre Aleixo and Jason Weckstein drenched after an Amazonian downpour. - Photo by John M. Bates.

For approximately one month we lived and worked on this boat, the Comandante Abreu. - Photo by Jason D. Weckstein.

Alexandre Aleixo looks over maps with the boat crew. - Photo by Jason D. Weckstein.

The upper deck of the boat, where we slept and worked. - Photo by Jason D. Weckstein.

Another view of the boat's upper deck. - Photo by Jason D. Weckstein.

Jason Weckstein and Marcos Pérsio watching birds from the bow of the boat. - Photo by Jason D. Weckstein.

Sunset on the Rio Japurá. - Photo by John M. Bates.

Late afternoon along the Rio Mapari, a tributary of the Rio Japura and one of our field sites. - Photo by John M. Bates.

Our boat docked along the bank of the Rio Mapari where we worked for one week. -Photo by Jason D. Weckstein.

We were also studying toucans, including this juvenile Lettered Araçari (Pteroglossus inscriptus). - Photo by Jason D. Weckstein.

John Bates with a Blue-crowned Motmot (Momotus momota). - Photo by Jason D. Weckstein.

Amazonian Royal Flycatcher (Onychorhynchus coronatus) performing its defensive head rocking display. - Photo by Jason D. Weckstein.

Green-and-gold Tanager (Tangara schrankii) one of several gaudy tanagers found in Amazonian forests. - Photo by Jason D. Weckstein.

The MPEG/FMNH bird/parasite survey team (left to right) Manoel Santa Brígida, Nilton Santa Brígida, Jason Weckstein, John Bates, Elinete Rodrigues, Maya S. Faccio, Alexandre Aleixo, and Marcos Pérsio.

One of the goals of our trip was to study parasites found on Amazonian birds. This is the chewing louse Laemobothrion opisthocomi attached to the wing of a Hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoatzin). - Photo by John M. Bates.