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The Birding Rally Challenge Peru 2012

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Enter the inaugural Peru Birding Rally Challenge , the first international birding event of it’s kind in the world. The Peru Birding Rally Challenge is a joint initiative between PromPeru and the Inkaterra Family of hotels. The idea is to hold the event bi-annually, once a year in the south of Peru and once in the North.

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Birds, culture, and Scenic Beauty along the Northern Peru Birding Route

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I thought I would talk about our team’s performance in the World Birding Rally Challenge in Northern Peru and the side attractions along the route. Hugh made things easier on me, as now I will only talk about other nature and cultural sites along the route covered in the Northern Peru World Birding Rally Challenge.

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Second International Birding Rally in Northern Peru: June 11-18, 2013

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The most flamboyant of all hummers, the Marvelous Spatuletail will be one of the many endemic bird highlights along the route of the Second International Birding Rally Challenge in Peru. I can’t convey how thrilled I am about the upcoming International Birding Rally Challenge in Peru. Photo: Courtesy of Dubi Shapiro. Photo: Inkaterra.

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Licking Clay: the Macaws of Tambopata, Peru

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UNLESS that is you get yourself down to the internationally-renowned Tambopata Research Centre in southern Peru where literally hundreds of macaws (and other parrots) congregate around a 50 meter high clay bank. Want to Go Bird Banding in Amazonian Peru? in south-eastern Peru. These Blasts From The Past ZooBorns?!?

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Want to Go Bird Banding in Amazonian Peru?

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home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Conservation / Want to Go Bird Banding in Amazonian Peru? Want to Go Bird Banding in Amazonian Peru? Guano Still Collected in Peru Counting Birds: Will Microphones Replace Nets?

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GUYANA–Simply Delicious Birding!

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And Giant Otters are still common in the rivers around Karanambu Ranch, home of the late “otter lady”, Diane McTurck, who used to rehabilitate orphaned otters and whose family still runs the lodge. Peru, with a few less bird species than Colombia, is 6 times larger than Guyana. A vicero gets his horse ready to look for giant anteaters.

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Cepas de Loro: Pisco Puro Muscatel

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So, it just might be that pisco – the beloved South American grape brandy contentiously claimed by both Peru and Chile – is the only spirit named after birds. The name of the liquor is likely borrowed from the city of Pisco on Peru’s central coast, an important port for the pisco trade in the early days of the Spanish viceroyalty.

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