Ilha Grande Guide · Pousada Costa Verde

YOU'LL SEE IT FROM THE POUSADA

House gecko

Hemidactylus mabouia

◆ The wall of your room, next to the hallway light.

◷ At night, as soon as the lights go on.

The best roommate you'll have here: it eats the mosquitoes that were coming for you.

◉ Photo taken here · Pousada Costa Verde

YOU'LL SEE IT FROM THE POUSADA

Fruit bat

Artibeus lituratus

◆ Crossing the village sky at dusk, especially near fruit trees.

◷ The first twenty minutes after sundown.

Ilha Grande has 37 bat species and in 2025 was named an international conservation area for them. Almost all eat fruit and replant the forest.

YOU'LL SEE IT FROM THE POUSADA

Grey-cowled wood-rail

Aramides cajaneus

◆ Walking through village gardens and stream banks, unhurried.

◷ Dawn and dusk, when it duets with its mate.

She owns this village: red legs, cinnamon breast, and that "três-potes, pot-pot-pot" call you'll hear every day without knowing who it was. Nearly all her cousins hide deep in the forest; this one chose to live among us.

YOU'LL SEE IT FROM THE POUSADA

Great kiskadee

Pitangus sulphuratus

◆ Any wire, post or branch in the village.

◷ All day — and it's the first thing to wake you.

It shouts its own name: "bem-te-vi". Yellow chest, black mask. The most Brazilian bird there is.

YOU'LL SEE IT FROM THE POUSADA

Black vulture

Coragyps atratus

◆ Circling over the village and perched on rooftops and the pier.

It soars for hours without a wingbeat, riding warm air. It's the beach's cleaning service.

◉ Photo taken here · Pousada Costa Verde

YOU'LL SEE IT FROM THE POUSADA

Neotropic cormorant

Nannopterum brasilianum

◆ On the rocks by the pier, wings spread out in the sun.

It spreads its wings because its feathers aren't waterproof: it soaks up water to weigh more and dive better, then has to dry off.

YOU'LL SEE IT FROM THE POUSADA

Rufous-collared sparrow

Zonotrichia capensis

◆ Hopping along garden floors and footpaths.

A little striped grey crest and a rufous collar. It sings differently by region — it has an accent.

YOU'LL SEE IT FROM THE POUSADA

Palm tanager

Thraupis palmarum

◆ In the palms and any tree with ripe fruit.

Always in pairs, and they usually share the branch with their bluish cousin, the sayaca tanager.

YOU'LL SEE IT FROM THE POUSADA

Ruddy ground dove

Columbina talpacoti

◆ Walking the ground, pecking between the tables.

It breeds nearly all year — up to six broods. That's why there's always one on the ground.

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Sergeant major

Abudefduf saxatilis

◆ Any rock while snorkelling: Lagoa Azul, Botinas, the end of the beach.

The most abundant fish in the bay and the cheekiest: it swims up to peer into your mask.

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Sardine shoal

Sardinella brasiliensis

◆ From the Abraão pier, looking straight down into the water.

That dark patch moving as one animal is thousands of them. Everything else follows them.

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Sea urchin

Echinometra lucunter

◆ Every submerged rock on the island, including at the edge of the beach.

The creature that sends the most tourists to the clinic. Never steady yourself on a rock with a bare hand.

⚠ Water shoes where it's rocky. If a spine goes in, go to the clinic.

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Magnificent frigatebird

Fregata magnificens

◆ Very high over the bay and the pier, with that M-shaped silhouette.

Everyone here calls it "albatroz" and there are even guesthouses named after it, but it's a frigatebird: two and a half metres of wing, unable to land on water without drowning, and it robs fish from other birds in mid-air. Full story below.

YOU'LL SEE IT JUST NEARBY

Blue-and-white swallow

Pygochelidon cyanoleuca

◆ Flying low over the bay water and along the wires.

◷ At dusk, when the insects come out.

It eats on the wing, never stopping. That ballet over the water before dinner is its working hour.

FREQUENT FROM THE POUSADA

Black-eared opossum

Didelphis aurita

◆ At night, along the rooftops and rubbish bins of the village.

◷ After midnight, when the village goes quiet.

Not a rat and not a skunk: it's a marsupial, a kangaroo relative, and carries its young in a pouch. When scared, it plays dead.

◉ Photo taken here · Pousada Costa Verde

⚠ Close the rubbish bag and leave no food out. An opossum that gets used to people ends badly.

FREQUENT FROM THE POUSADA

Brown howler monkey

Alouatta guariba clamitans

◆ Treetops on the trails and at the edge of the village. You hear it long before you see it.

◷ At dawn and before rain — that's when it roars.

That roar that sounds like something huge comes from a six-kilo monkey, and carries over a kilometre.

FREQUENT FROM THE POUSADA

Tegu lizard

Salvator merianae

◆ Trail edges and back yards, sunbathing at midday.

◷ Sunny days. In winter it barely comes out.

It can top a metre and a half and walks like a small dinosaur, but it's shy: stare at it and it leaves.

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Blue morpho

Morpho helenor

◆ Crossing the garden and shaded paths, with that flight that looks like it's falling.

◷ Spring and early summer, on sunny days.

That blue isn't pigment: the wing scales are built like tiny mirrors that split the light. That's why it flashes on and off as it turns — and why, closed, it's brown and vanishes.

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Marmoset

Callithrix jacchus / penicillata

◆ At the pousada's front door: they arrive along the power lines out front and drop into the jackfruit tree.

◷ Roughly once a week, no fixed day — but if they come on Monday, they come on Tuesday too.

Squirrel-sized, with tufted ears and a very long tail that can't grip anything — it's only for balance. Not native: two species brought here from other regions of Brazil, and that story — babies riding piggyback — is below.

◉ Photo taken here · Pousada Costa Verde

⚠ Don't feed them, however close they come. They become dependent, get into houses and fight between troops.

FREQUENT FROM THE POUSADA

Black-crowned night heron

Nycticorax nycticorax

◆ Hunched and motionless on the shore or a pier post. It looks like a grey penguin with red eyes.

◷ It wakes at dusk: fishes by night, sleeps by day.

In Portuguese it's the socó-dorminhoco, the sleepyhead heron, because it spends the day asleep on its feet with its bill tucked to its chest. The red eyes are real, not a camera trick.

FREQUENT FROM THE POUSADA

Picazuro pigeon

Patagioenas picazuro

◆ Tall trees and rooftops in the village; it nests in back yards.

The big wine-grey pigeon with a scaled nape that glints in the sun. It only reached Ilha Grande in 2013 — a newcomer that has settled in for good.

FREQUENT FROM THE POUSADA

Swallow-tailed hummingbird

Eupetomena macroura

◆ Any garden flower, especially the bougainvillea.

◷ First thing in the morning.

It beats its wings about 50 times a second and its heart tops a thousand beats a minute. Blue and green, with scissor tail.

FREQUENT FROM THE POUSADA

Black jacobin

Florisuga fusca

◆ The same flowers as the swallow-tail, but it stays longer and bosses the others around.

All black with a white tail, and big for a hummingbird — the one that looks like it's the wrong size. It sings so high that much of its song is above what the human ear can hear.

FREQUENT FROM THE POUSADA

Plain parakeet

Brotogeris tirica

◆ In a noisy flock over the village palms.

◷ At dusk, when they all fly back to roost together.

Found only in the Atlantic Forest. You'll hear them before you see them: straight line, full volume.

FREQUENT JUST NEARBY

Guiana dolphin

Sotalia guianensis

◆ On the boat trips, and sometimes from the pier first thing in the morning.

◷ All year, best at dawn with a flat sea.

The bay dolphin par excellence. Researchers identify them one by one by the dorsal fin, like a fingerprint.

FREQUENT JUST NEARBY

Blacksmith tree frog

Boana faber

◆ Near any puddle or stream in the village — and sometimes in the shower.

◷ Rainy summer nights are an absolute racket.

Named for its call, which sounds like someone hammering metal. The male builds a little mud pool for the eggs.

FREQUENT JUST NEARBY

Golden silk orb-weaver

Trichonephila clavipes

◆ In its web, strung between two trees at face height on the trail.

The silk is literally golden and glints in the sun. It's stronger than steel of the same thickness; webs over a metre across can stop a small bird. The big spider is the female — the male is tiny and lives in a corner of her web.

◉ Photo taken here · Hans Bustos

FREQUENT JUST NEARBY

Brazilian tanager

Ramphocelus bresilius

◆ Garden shrubs and forest edges. Impossible to miss.

The male is an impossible, almost electric red with black wings. It exists only in the Atlantic Forest — no other forest on Earth.

FREQUENT JUST NEARBY

Brown booby

Sula leucogaster

◆ Over the bay and perched on the rocks of the outer islands.

Spotting a fish, it dives from twenty metres and hits the water like an arrow. Worth waiting to see it.

FREQUENT JUST NEARBY

Great egret

Ardea alba

◆ On the shore and in the mangrove, motionless in shallow water.

◷ At low tide, early or at sundown.

It can hold still for ten whole minutes, then strike in a tenth of a second.

FREQUENT JUST NEARBY

Southern lapwing

Vanellus chilensis

◆ Open ground and grass: the village football pitch is its home.

The neighbourhood alarm: it shouts before anyone else and dive-bombs anyone near its nest. It hides a spur in its wing.

FREQUENT JUST NEARBY

Rufous hornero

Furnarius rufus

◆ Walking the garden floor — and its nest on any post.

It builds that oven-shaped mud nest with two chambers and a curved corridor so nothing can get in. The pair does it together, over months.

FREQUENT JUST NEARBY

Smooth-billed ani

Crotophaga ani

◆ In groups, on shrubs and fences in open areas.

All black, with an odd high curved bill. Several females lay in a single nest and raise the chicks together.

FREQUENT JUST NEARBY

Kelp gull

Larus dominicanus

◆ On the pier and the rocks, waiting for someone to clean fish.

It takes four years to earn the adult black-and-white suit; the young are brown and look like another species.

FREQUENT

Green sea turtle

Chelonia mydas

◆ Snorkelling in Lagoa Azul and along the rocky shores on the boat trips.

◷ All year. The juveniles live here — they're not just passing through.

The island isn't a nesting site: these are teenagers that stay for years grazing algae off the rocks.

⚠ Don't touch or chase it — it needs to surface calmly to breathe.

FREQUENT

Starfish

Oreaster reticulatus

◆ Sandy and seagrass bottoms at Lagoa Azul and the Botinas.

It digests by pushing its stomach out of its body onto its food, then pulling it back in.

⚠ Lifting it out for a photo kills it. Look at it underwater.

FREQUENT

French angelfish

Pomacanthus paru

◆ Rocky shorelines, almost always in pairs.

They pair for life and patrol the same patch of rock together. Spot one and look for the other.

FREQUENT

Parrotfish

Sparisoma frondosum

◆ Algae-covered rocks at any snorkelling stop.

It bites the rock to eat the algae and spits the rest out as sand. A good share of the island's white sand has been through one.

FREQUENT

Pufferfish

Sphoeroides spengleri

◆ Shallow sandy water, hanging still near the bottom.

It only puffs up when genuinely frightened, and it costs it dearly — don't chase it to see the trick.

FREQUENT

Damselfish

Stegastes fuscus

◆ Shallow rocks, always in the same square metre.

It farms its own algae garden and chases off anything that comes near — including you.

FREQUENT

Humpback whale

Megaptera novaeangliae

◆ Offshore. On a still day you can sometimes see the blow from land.

◷ There's a season every year: July and August are the peak, the window runs May to November. Coming in those months? Ask at reception how it's going.

They come to mate and calve in warm water after feeding all summer in Antarctica, passing the island on the way. In season, Instagram fills up with videos shot right here — it's one of the few things you can spot from shore on a still day.

FREQUENT

Black capuchin

Sapajus nigritus

◆ Forest along the trails, in groups, rattling branches.

It uses stones as tools to crack hard fruit, learning by watching its elders — every troop has its own tricks. One of the island's two native monkeys, along with the howler.

IF LUCKY FROM THE POUSADA

Giant centipede

Scolopendra viridicornis

◆ Under leaves, plant pots and stones. At night it comes indoors looking for cool, damp spots.

◷ At night, and more after rain.

Orange and black, extremely fast, up to 25 cm. The sting hurts a lot but isn't dangerous to a healthy adult. It guards its eggs by curling around them until they hatch — rare behaviour for an invertebrate.

◉ Photo taken here · Hans Bustos

⚠ Shake out your shoes before putting them on, and never pick it up. If stung: cold water, and go to the clinic if you're allergic.

IF LUCKY JUST NEARBY

Squid

Doryteuthis pleii

◆ At night, under the lights of the Abraão pier.

◷ After dark — the light draws small fish first, then them.

It changes colour in under a second. A sudden flash of red means it's annoyed.

IF LUCKY JUST NEARBY

Jellyfish

Chrysaora lactea

◆ Drifting near the shore, especially when the sea is choppy.

◷ Summer, December to March.

No brain, no heart, no blood — and it's been doing fine like that for 500 million years.

⚠ If stung, rinse with seawater. Fresh water makes the sting worse.

IF LUCKY JUST NEARBY

Portuguese man o' war

Physalia physalis

◆ Washed up on the sand or floating: the purple one with a sail on top.

◷ Summer, especially after days of onshore wind.

Not a jellyfish, not even one animal: a colony of four kinds of individuals that can't live apart.

⚠ It stings hard and stays active stranded on the sand. Don't touch it, not even with a foot.

IF LUCKY JUST NEARBY

Magellanic penguin

Spheniscus magellanicus

◆ On the sand, almost always alone and exhausted. It can turn up on any beach.

◷ Winter: June to September, peaking in July and August.

The cold current carries them up from the south. One of them, Dindim, made this island famous — the story is below.

◉ Photo taken here · Hans Bustos

⚠ Don't touch it or put it back in the sea — it's resting. Tell reception.

IF LUCKY JUST NEARBY

Glasswing butterfly

Methona themisto

◆ Damp shade inside the forest, resting on a leaf.

Its wings are transparent — you can see the leaf through them. It's not that the scales are missing: they're there, built with a nanostructure that barely reflects light, so the butterfly vanishes in mid-flight.

◉ Photo taken here · Hans Bustos

IF LUCKY JUST NEARBY

Freshwater crab

Trichodactylus fluviatilis

◆ Under stones in the streams and waterfalls along the trails.

It spends its whole life in fresh water, far from the sea, and it's a sign the stream is clean: where the water gets dirty, it disappears.

◉ Photo taken here · Hans Bustos

IF LUCKY JUST NEARBY

Neotropical otter

Lontra longicaudis

◆ Right along the village seafront: it turns up now and then, without warning. Also in the rivers over towards Dois Rios.

◷ Dawn and dusk, when the water is still.

It swims in fresh and salt water alike. Since it's almost impossible to see, biologists study it by what it leaves behind: it always uses the same river rock as a latrine, and that's where you count how many there are and what they ate.

IF LUCKY JUST NEARBY

Ringed kingfisher

Megaceryle torquata

◆ Perched on a moored boat or a branch over the mangrove water.

◷ Early morning, when the water is still.

The largest kingfisher in the Americas. When it dives it goes all the way in and comes out with the fish in its bill.

IF LUCKY

Octopus

Octopus vulgaris

◆ Rock crevices while snorkelling. You have to look — it rarely shows itself.

Look for the little pile of empty shells at a crevice mouth: that's its rubbish, and it's home.

IF LUCKY

Moray eel

Gymnothorax funebris

◆ Tucked into a hole in the rock with its head out.

It opens and closes its mouth constantly — that's not a threat, it's how it breathes.

⚠ Never put your hand in a hole. It bites by reflex, not malice.

IF LUCKY

Stingray

Hypanus americanus

◆ Buried in the sand of beaches and shallows — only the eyes show.

◷ Most active in warm water, December to March.

It never attacks: the barb is defence, used only if you step on its back.

⚠ Shuffle your feet as you wade in instead of stamping. They move off on their own.

IF LUCKY

Seahorse

Hippocampus reidi

◆ Calm seagrass water, over towards Araçatiba and Saco do Céu.

It's the male that gets pregnant and gives birth. It grips with its tail so the current doesn't carry it off.

⚠ Threatened species: look from a distance, don't touch or use flash.

IF LUCKY

Atlantic spotted dolphin

Stenella frontalis

◆ More open water, on the longer trips like the Round-the-Island.

Born plain, it gains spots with age — you can read its years off its skin.

IF LUCKY

Agouti

Dasyprocta leporina

◆ Forest edges along the trails, in daylight. It bolts the moment it hears you.

It buries seeds for later and forgets half of them. Half this forest was planted by a distracted agouti.

IF LUCKY

Snail-eating snake

Dipsas neuwiedi

◆ Coiled on low branches and shrubs, also in vegetable patches and gardens.

◷ At night. By day it sleeps coiled up — hence the name.

The island's great misunderstanding: it's called jararaca-dormideira because it wears the same markings as the lancehead, but it has no venom and no fangs and eats snails and slugs. Most snakes killed out of fear are this one.

⚠ Harmless as it is, don't touch it: nobody identifies a snake correctly at a glance. Leave it be and walk on.

IF LUCKY

Water snake

Helicops carinicaudus

◆ Rivers and waterfall pools, swimming at the surface.

It's harmless and eats fish, but since everyone shouts "lancehead!", it has the worst reputation on the island.

IF LUCKY

Coati

Nasua nasua

◆ The long trails, especially the T-14 to Dois Rios. They travel in groups, by day.

Curious to the point of cheek: open a backpack in front of one and it will go through it. They travel in bands with tails held up like antennas, so they don't lose each other in the ferns.

⚠ Don't feed it or let it near your backpack — it scratches.

IF LUCKY

Ilha Grande torrent frog

Hylodes fredi

◆ Wet rocks beside the mountain streams, on the trails.

It exists nowhere else on Earth — only on this island. Since the rushing water drowns out its call, it signals with its feet instead.

IF LUCKY

Nine-banded armadillo

Dasypus novemcinctus

◆ The forest floor at night. Usually it's the turned-over leaf litter that gives it away, not the animal.

It always gives birth to identical quadruplets of the same sex — the only mammal that does.

IF LUCKY

Yellow rat snake

Spilotes pullatus

◆ Up in trees and shrubs, by day. Black and yellow, long and slim.

One of the most frequently recorded snakes on the island, and one of the most theatrical: cornered, it inflates its neck, rattles its tail against the leaves and plays dangerous. It hasn't a drop of venom. It tops two metres and climbs like few others.

◉ Photo taken here · Hans Bustos

IF LUCKY

Vine snake

Chironius bicarinatus

◆ Among the branches of low vegetation along the trails, by day.

Green, thin and very long: it passes for a vine until it moves. Three different species live on the island, all harmless and all frog-eaters.

IF LUCKY

Tarantula

Theraphosidae

◆ At the mouth of its burrow, on the trail edge. It comes out to hunt at night.

Huge and hairy, but its venom is no danger to us: its defence is a cloud of stinging hairs it kicks off its own abdomen with its back legs. They itch on skin and eyes — and only if you bother it.

◉ Photo taken here · Hans Bustos

⚠ Don't touch it or put your face close for a photo. At a distance it's harmless.

IF LUCKY

Spider-hunting wasp

Pepsis sp.

◆ On the trail floor, dragging a spider bigger than itself.

Metallic blue with orange antennae. It finds a big spider, paralyses it with a surgically precise sting — alive but immobile — drags it to a burrow, lays a single egg on it and seals it in. The larva eats the spider from the inside, saving the vital organs for last. It wants nothing to do with you.

◉ Photo taken here · Hans Bustos

IF LUCKY

Blue manakin

Chiroxiphia caudata

◆ The understorey of any trail through closed forest.

◷ Mornings, and most active in spring and summer.

The males perform a choreographed group dance, taking turns on the same branch, to win a single female. Blue body, red cap.

IF LUCKY

Surucua trogon

Trogon surrucura

◆ Motionless on a mid-level branch. Recorded on the Pico do Papagaio trail.

It sits so still that most people walk right under it. Yellow belly, grey back, white-edged tail.

IF LUCKY

Spot-billed toucanet

Selenidera maculirostris

◆ Inside the forest, in fruiting trees.

This is Ilha Grande's real toucan: smaller than the postcard one, with a spotted bill. The big toucan doesn't live here.

IF LUCKY

Bare-throated bellbird

Procnias nudicollis

◆ High canopy, in the best-preserved parts of the park.

That metallic clang like a hammer on an anvil, carrying hundreds of metres through the forest, is a white bird the size of a pigeon. It is the voice of the Atlantic Forest.

◉ Photo taken here · Hans Bustos

IF LUCKY

Solitary tinamou

Tinamus solitarius

◆ The floor of closed forest, on the long trails. You hear it, you don't see it.

◷ Dawn and dusk.

Its long, melancholy whistle is one of the most beautiful sounds in the Brazilian forest, and a sign this forest is still healthy.

VERY RARE

Nurse shark

Ginglymostoma cirratum

◆ Scuba diving, asleep under a big rock.

The most placid shark there is: it sleeps the day away piled up with others and eats shellfish off the bottom.

VERY RARE

Subantarctic fur seal

Arctocephalus tropicalis

◆ Resting on remote beaches. The last one turned up at Parnaioca.

◷ Winter, when the cold current comes in: June to August.

It lives thousands of kilometres south. The ones that reach us are youngsters that went too far.

⚠ It's resting, not stranded. Don't touch it or push it into the water — tell reception.

VERY RARE

Orca

Orcinus orca

◆ Crossing the bay offshore. It passes through, it doesn't stay.

There is tourist and biologist video of them, but there's no season — it's pure luck.

VERY RARE

Tiger shark

Galeocerdo cuvier

◆ Deep water in the bay, far from the shore and the beaches.

In 2026 biologists counted about a hundred here for the first time. They were always there — and there has never been an attack on a swimmer on this island.

VERY RARE

Capybara

Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris

◆ River mouths and remote beaches.

The world's largest rodent, and it swims in the sea: INEA rescued one at Praia dos Meros, here on the island.

VERY RARE

Paca

Cuniculus paca

◆ Dense forest near water, at night only.

It weighs as much as a medium dog, swims well and dives into the river to escape. Seeing one takes silence and a torch.

VERY RARE

Boa constrictor

◆ Deep in the forest, still and camouflaged. This is the one guides describe as "a four-metre snake".

The largest snake on the island, and it has no venom: it kills by squeezing. Slow, calm and a rodent-eater — the best pest control the forest has. Seeing one is luck, not trouble.

VERY RARE

Jararaca lancehead

Bothrops jararaca

◆ Leaf litter in the forest, on quieter trails. It's camouflaged — you almost never see it.

Its venom gave us the first modern blood-pressure drug, taken today by millions of people.

◉ Photo taken here · Hans Bustos

⚠ Closed shoes, and never a hand between rocks or logs. If you see one, stand still and go around. If bitten: call 192, no tourniquet, no cutting.

VERY RARE

Coral snake

Micrurus corallinus

◆ Under leaf litter and soil. It spends nearly its whole life buried.

Its venom is stronger than the lancehead's, but its mouth is tiny and it hides so well that bites are extremely rare.

◉ Photo taken here · Hans Bustos

⚠ Any snake with coloured rings: don't touch it, don't move it. Not even with a stick.

VERY RARE

Broad-snouted caiman

Caiman latirostris

◆ The flooded stretch of trail T-12, between Pouso and the lighthouse. There are warning signs.

Guides say they descend from ones released at Dois Rios in the prison era. No document proves it, but the official sign is real — and it is the island's only crocodilian.

⚠ Don't wade into still water in that area, especially at dusk.

VERY RARE

Puma

Puma concolor

◆ Deep in the park, over towards Dois Rios. Nobody sees it — camera traps do.

Locals swore for decades it was there, with no proof. In November 2022 a university camera filmed it for the first time: it was true, and it had never left.

VERY RARE

Red-browed amazon

Amazona rhodocorytha

◆ The canopy of well-preserved forest, over towards Dois Rios.

◷ At dawn, when they cross overhead in pairs.

It's endangered and lives almost only along this strip of coast. Note: Pico do Papagaio isn't named after it, but after the shape of the rock.

VERY RARE

King vulture

Sarcoramphus papa

◆ Very high, over the wild side of the island: Parnaioca, Praia do Sul.

Its bare head is a hand-painted riot of colour. It was photographed on the island for the first time in 2025 — its arrival means the forest is doing better than before.

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The wildlife

House gecko

Fruit bat

Grey-cowled wood-rail

Great kiskadee

Black vulture

Neotropic cormorant

Rufous-collared sparrow

Palm tanager

Ruddy ground dove

Sergeant major

Sardine shoal

Sea urchin

Magnificent frigatebird

Blue-and-white swallow

Black-eared opossum

Brown howler monkey

Tegu lizard

Blue morpho

Marmoset

Black-crowned night heron

Picazuro pigeon

Swallow-tailed hummingbird

Black jacobin

Plain parakeet

Guiana dolphin

Blacksmith tree frog

Golden silk orb-weaver

Brazilian tanager

Brown booby

Great egret

Southern lapwing

Rufous hornero

Smooth-billed ani

Kelp gull

Green sea turtle

Starfish

French angelfish

Parrotfish

Pufferfish

Damselfish

Humpback whale

Black capuchin

Giant centipede

Squid

Jellyfish

Portuguese man o' war

Magellanic penguin

Glasswing butterfly

Freshwater crab

Neotropical otter

Ringed kingfisher

Octopus

Moray eel

Stingray

Seahorse

Atlantic spotted dolphin

Agouti

Snail-eating snake

Water snake

Coati

Ilha Grande torrent frog

Nine-banded armadillo

Yellow rat snake

Vine snake

Tarantula

Spider-hunting wasp

Blue manakin

Surucua trogon

Spot-billed toucanet

Bare-throated bellbird

Solitary tinamou

Nurse shark

Subantarctic fur seal

Orca

Tiger shark

Capybara

Paca

Boa constrictor