Pretty Polly

The Pantanal would be a good place to be a pirate: a big choice of macaws, parrots and parakeets to carry on your shoulder. That very desirability is, of course, why the pet trade poses such a threat to some of these birds. Here, in no particular order, is a gallery of the ones I managed to photograph:

At first my overactive imagination thought that this one was using a tool, but disappointingly it was just chewing on a grassy seedhead.

and just underneath it on the same fencepost was a Campo Flicker, a ground-feeding woodpecker:

Flashes of color in every tree.