7 May 2025

Advertising: Amazon Primates & Parrots Cruise May 2026 with WildWings with a special mammalwatcher discount!

These Amazon cruises are superb. Wonderful wildlife, a great team and a very comfortable boat. Cruising the Amazon is THE way to travel!
So I’m happy to announce next year’s WildWings trip offers a special discount to mammalwatchers.
If time and money are no object then you could stay in Brazil and keep going with me to look for some different primates and porcupines in the northeast immediately after this trip.

Golden-faced Saki, © Chris Collins

For the last decade, the UK-based tour company, WildWings, has been offering wildlife-focused cruises in the Brazilian Amazon including a unique 13-night voyage from Manaus to Santarem that targets some of the most localised and least known primates on the planet.

Golden-white Tassel-eared Marmoset © Chris Collins May 2024

In 2024, participants on this trip encountered 31 different species of primates including Golden-white Tassel-ear Marmoset, Sateré Marmoset, Maués Marmoset, Silvery Marmoset, Santarem Marmoset, Midas Tamarin, Pied Tamarin, Martin’s Bare-faced Tamarin, Lake Baptista Titi, Spix’s Black-headed Uacari and Amazon Black Howler.  Other species seen in 2024 included Spix’s Night Monkey, Red-bellied Titi, Hoffman’s Titi, White-faced Saki, Collins’s Squirrel Monkey, Guianan Brown Capuchin, Spix’s White-fronted Capuchin, Spix’s (Red-handed) Howler and Red-faced Black Spider Monkey.

Red-nosed Bearded Saki © Chris Collins

The expedition also includes multiple after dark excursions which provide an opportunity to look for a very different range of Amazonian wildlife.  Nocturnal creatures we could encounter include Brazilian Porcupine, Linnaeus’s Two-toed, Brown-throated and Pale-throated Sloths, Kinkajou, Amazon Bamboo Rat, Cuvier’s Spiny Rat, Black and Spectacled Caimans, Northern Ghost Bat, as well as a selection of owls, nightjars and potoos.

Boto © Chris Collins May 2024

During the day, other possibilities include Southern Tamandua, Giant Otter, Neotropical Pygmy Squirrel, Southern Amazon Red Squirrel and both Amazon River Dolphin and Tucuxi can be expected on a near daily basis.

Golden Parakeets, © Chris Collins

As well as the primates, the trip also searches for some of the unique birds which live in this rarely visited region and there are three special parrot species which we particularly want to find – Bald Parrot, Vulturine Parrot, and Golden Parakeet.  Other possibilities include six species of macaws, Blue-and-Yellow, Scarlet, Red-and-Green, Blue-winged, Chestnut-fronted and Red-bellied, as well as the amazing Red-fan Parrot and highly localised Crimson-bellied Parakeet.
The trip is based on a comfortable air-conditioned riverboat which has been specifically designed to provide the opportunity to explore areas many other vessels would find impossible to access.  With a fantastic shaded top deck (which has been described by previous clients as akin to ‘a mobile canopy tower’), a very low draft and a fantastic crew, this exclusive charter provides a fantastic opportunity to look for an impressive range of speciality mammals and other wildlife.
Subscribers to mammalwatching.com are able to get an exclusive GB£375 (c.US$500) discount on this amazing trip for bookings made online before 30 June 2025.  Please use the discount code “PRIMATES26”.

Martins’s Bare-faced Tamarin © Chris Collins May 2024

Dates: 9-23 May 2026 (Manaus-Santarem dates)
Price: GB£5,995
Single supplement: £1,675
Leaders: Chris Collins and Regina Ribeiro
Price includes:
  • Two WildWings Tour Leaders
  • Expert resident wildlife guide
  • 14 nights accommodation in Brazil, including 13 on the comfortable air-conditioned river boat Iracema
  • All main meals with drinking water provided during the day
  • Visit to Musa Canopy Tower on outskirts of Manaus
  • All entry fees, all tour-based tips (including boat staff, drivers, local guides) and taxes
Price excludes:
Flights (international and internal), insurance, drinks, airport meals/snacks and other items of a personal nature.
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Jon Hall
Genetically Welsh, spiritually Australian, currently in New York City. I’ve also lived and worked in London, Canberra, Paris and Lusaka, and watched mammals in over 100 countries.
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