Luiz Claudio Marigo / Woman and girl weaving wad palm {Copernicia cerifera} Aracati, Ceara, NE Brazil

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Migrant family from the drought region of NE Brazil

Adrian Davies / Fossil Mayfly, specimen approx 15mm long. Lower Cretaceous period from Crato Formation, Nova Olinda Member, Ceara, Brazil

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Slabstone of Caatinga vegetation covered with Macambira bromeliad (Encholirium spectabile) Hotel Pedra dos Ventos, municipality of Quixada, Central Ceara State, northeastern Brazil, December 2010

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Cactus parakeet (Aratinga cactorum) perched in the Caatinga, Hotel Pedra dos Ventos, Central Ceara State, northeastern Brazil.

Luiz Claudio Marigo / White-tufted-ear marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) in its natural habitat, Caatinga vegetation, Serra das Almas Natural Reserve, western Ceara State, northeastern Brazil.

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Spix's Yellow-toothed cavy (Galea spixii) in its natural habitat, Caatinga vegetation, Serra das Almas Natural Reserve, western Ceara State, northeastern Brazil.

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Pygmy nightjar (Caprimulgus hirundinaceus), endemic to the Caatinga, perched on rock at Hotel Pedra dos Ventos, Central Ceara State, northeastern Brazil.

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Pileated Finch (Coryphospingus pileatus) in the Caatinga vegetation of Serra das Almas Natural Reserve, western Ceara state, Brazil.

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Tropical Screech Owl (Otus / Megascops choliba) perched in Caatinga vegetation at night, Serra das Almas Natural Reserve, western Ceara State, northeastern Brazil.

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Burnished-buff tanager (Tangara cayana) perched in banana tree, in an isolated refuge of Atlantic Rainforest, Serra do Baturit, Guaramiranga, Ceara State, northeastern Brazil.

Luiz Claudio Marigo / White-naped jay (Cyanocorax cyanopogon) perched in the Caatinga vegetation of Serra das Almas Natural Reserve, western Ceara State, Brazil.