Guyed and self-supporting steel towers engineered for birding and wildlife viewing across the Pantanal, the Amazon and the Atlantic Forest — from 6 metre outcrop platforms to 51 metre rainforest masts.
A canopy tower only does its job if it clears the trees by enough margin to matter, holds a group of guests steady at dawn, and survives twenty rainy seasons on a galvanized frame bolted together in the field. That is the whole brief, repeated for every lodge, reserve and research station on this page.
BirdWatchingTowers is a portfolio of structures engineered and built by Suli Engenharia — Eng. George Sanches Suli, CREA 7278/D — the studio behind guyed lattice towers, suspended walkways, inter-canopy bridges and the instrumentation that watches over them, from the flooded grasslands of the Pantanal to closed-canopy rainforest in the Amazon.
A close-up on the bracing and stair landings near the top deck, open Pantanal grassland spreading out beyond the frame.
Rises straight out of open grassland beside a lagoon, with nothing but flat horizon for the deck to clear.
Set over young reforested stands so growth can be tracked from above as the canopy closes in around it.
Named for the ornithologist; a fully cable-guyed mast clearing continuous rainforest canopy, one of the tallest towers on record here.
Ted Parker's twin — a full radial spread of guy cables anchored across the forest floor to hold the mast steady at height.
A single deck standing clear of the surrounding canopy, reached by a switchback stair spiralling down through the frame.
A public-facing research tower built to hold a full group at once — this is where the sunrise crowd gathers.
The shortest structure on record — six metres of steel finishing a job a granite outcrop had already half-done.
Two decks, at 34.8 m and 37 m, facing Morro do Forno Grande. Completed 2024.
A regional reference point — the tower neighbouring lodges bring up first when discussing what to build next.
Elevated decks strung between fixed points across sloped or forested terrain, independent of any single tower.
Truss bridges linking two towers at platform height, for routes that move guests between structures without descending.
Lodge and reserve logos cut in aluminium or stainless steel, mounted at the platform to identify the structure in the field.
Load cells on the stay cables with SMS alerts on abnormal tension, plus weather stations for just-in-time maintenance.