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DECEMBER 6, 2016

If you read our earlier post , you know that the national tourism office of Peru is giving away a 7-day bird watching adventure for two in Peru, home to over 1,700 species of bird.

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JUNE 5, 2014

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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JUNE 6, 2013

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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OCTOBER 15, 2014

Well, a team from Louisiana State University managed to pull that off on 14 October, seeing an astounding 354 species in one day in Peru. Birding big day Peru'

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NOVEMBER 18, 2011

The newest location to habituate rare antpittas to hand feeding is the Owlet Lodge in Peru’s Abra Patricia-Alto Nieva Private Conservation Area. The results are so spectacular that it should come as no surprise that this practice has spread. If you’re looking for Undulated Antpitta , pack your bags!

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MAY 7, 2015

with millions of bird enthusiasts, tally more birds than, say the Country of Peru with only a handful of bird enthusiasts? Map of Peru showing the distribution of teams participating in the Global Big Day. As a general rule, a greater number of observers in the field will report more birds than a few observers in bird rich regions.

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MAY 21, 2015

I am referring to the sequence of events prior to May 9th, where CORBIDI, a small NGO in the country of Peru launched an effort to recruit birders from every corner of the country. A total of 122 teams covering just about every major habitat counted a total of 1183 species or approximately 65% of the entire avifauna of Peru in a single day!

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FEBRUARY 27, 2021

InkaNatura Travel is the only leading tour operator in Peru owned by Peru Verde, a non-profit conservation group. All our products are related to natural conservation areas and part of the profit goes to the funds that Peru Verde uses to preserve these ecosystems. We also have local offices in Cusco and Puerto Maldonado.

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APRIL 19, 2013

Alfredo Begazo grew up with Peruvian Meadowlarks and Marvelous Spatuletails, and was used to waking up to the morning choruses of Pacific Doves in Lima, Peru. Alfredo, an experienced birder in Peru and well-rounded naturalist, founded a birding and nature eco-travel company , known as Surbound Expeditions (Sur=Spanish for south).

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MARCH 4, 2013

Alfredo Begazo grew up with Peruvian Meadowlarks and Marvelous Spatuletails, and was used to waking up to the morning choruses of Pacific Doves in Lima, Peru. Alfredo, an experienced birder in Peru and well-rounded naturalist, founded a birding and nature eco-travel company , known as Surbound Expeditions (Sur=Spanish for south).

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JUNE 3, 2014

Hugh, who years ago helped me find my first Pauraque in the Rio Grande Valley , visited Peru as part of the 2014 World Birding Rally, where he stopped thinking of himself as an experienced birder. Come to Peru, they said. There’s this World Birding Rally that’s going to blast across 1,500 kilometers of northern Peru.

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APRIL 21, 2016

I’ll be tipping my cash to a worthwhile project in Peru, and I hope you will too. And the Junin Grebe of Peru? And Gunnar Engblom, a bird guide in Peru, wants it to remain on this Earth, and is running an Indigogo campaign to begin some basic monitoring to provide data to scientists and government officials tasked with saving it.

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JANUARY 1, 2015

I participated in another fantastic Birding Rally Challenge in Northern Peru. Valenzuela Trujillo, started a Facebook group “Aves Del Peru – “Birds of Peru”. Facebook Group: Aves Del Peru. Started a “large” project covering the birds of Peru. Screenshot of a page: Peru Aves.

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MARCH 13, 2014

I for instance, asked which birds would be on the wish list of someone visiting Peru, and what criteria birders use to generate such wish list. I assume a first-timer would grab a book [Birds of Peru] and go through the list of possibilities to then, put together such list largely based on looks. Birds hummingbirds Peru'

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MAY 8, 2014

I was incredibly lucky to be invited –again- to participate on the second edition of the World Birding Rally Challenge in Northern Peru. Four teams with renowned birders from United States, South Africa and United Kingdom will travel through the diverse and endemic bird rich region of Northern Peru, from May 12 thought May 20, 2014.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2011

It is a very small antpitta that lives in Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela and Bolivia. This antpitta is found in southern Ecuador (near Peru) and curiously also inside the Puluahua Crater which is my residence near Quito in northern Ecuador.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2014

A couple of months ago I took a true pelagic trip off the coast of Peru. Birding pelagic birding Peru Surbound' In my last pelagic birding trip, I learn I could not do neither see birds well nor hear them; I learn that pelagic birding is not my cup of tea.

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JANUARY 15, 2014

Frigatebirds don’t occur in the cold waters of the coast of Peru and Chile, but Band-tailed Gulls (Larus belcheri) have developed similar strategy. They are known to hover over seabird nesting colonies, waiting for parent birds to return to the colony with their crops full of food.

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MARCH 21, 2013

Alfredo Begazo grew up with Peruvian Meadowlarks and Marvelous Spatuletails, and was used to waking up to the morning choruses of Pacific Doves in Lima, Peru. Alfredo, an experienced birder in Peru and well-rounded naturalist, founded a birding and nature eco-travel company , known as Surbound Expeditions (Sur=Spanish for south).

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MARCH 15, 2021

Whilst Guyana doesn’t boast the number of species of larger countries like Peru, Brazil and Colombia, one needs to consider the size difference between these countries. Peru, with a few less bird species than Colombia, is 6 times larger than Guyana. Peru, with a few less bird species than Colombia, is 6 times larger than Guyana.

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JANUARY 1, 2014

This last December, I had the chance to bird the rainforest of Southeastern Peru, as part of the second International Birding Rally in Southeastern Peru. We are greatly indebted to the event sponsor Peru’s Board of Tourism and Inkaterra Association.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2014

Now that Winter Olympic fever has gripped the global imagination, I can’t help but wonder why we don’t have more international birding competitions like the International Birding Rally in Peru. You’ve got to imagine that the only thing better than winning a gold medal would be getting the gold AND a bunch of lifers.

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APRIL 25, 2019

17%: Ecuador, Peru. While Peru was seen as the best country for “birds and ancient sites”, Ecuador was seen as “much safer” and best for its size and easiness of getting around. Here are the results: 3 per cent of respondents (in no particular order): Trinidad and Tobago, Chile, Tanzania, Madagascar. 8%: Brazil, Panama.

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AUGUST 6, 2012

A new species of barbet was discovered in 2008 in Peru by a team of ornithologists that were recent graduates of Cornell University. The Sira Barbet has as its scientific name Capito fitzpatricki , in honor of the director of the Lab of Ornithogy, Dr. John W. Fitzpatrick. The new species is described in the July 2012 issue of The Auk.

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JANUARY 10, 2014

the Caribbean islands, and Ecuador and Peru. Scientists who attached tracking devices to 10 of the birds in 2012 were shocked to discover that one had flown west across the Atlantic Ocean, and eventually settled down on the shores of the Pacific Ocean in South America. It then reversed this migration, logging roughly 16,000 miles in total.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

A Guan was collected in 1876 in a mangrove forest near the border between Peru and Ecuador. It was decades later that Maria Keopcke, a German ornithologist with a long trajectory in Peru suggested to expand the search of the Guan to areas not surveyed before.

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JUNE 5, 2013

The new birds inhabit the southern portion of the Amazon, some only in Brazil but others in Bolivia and Peru as well. The ornithologists considered plumage, voice, and genetics in making their determinations; birds had to differ from known species in in at least two of those qualities to be considered new. Of the bunch, 14 are passerines.

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JULY 17, 2014

Rusty-breasted Warbling-Finch occurs in scrub habitat in the western Andes of Peru. Cinereous Finch inhabits multiple habitat types in the lowlands of northern Peru and Southwest Ecuador. The panoramic view gives an idea of the elevation and sparse scrub habitat where this rare bird can be found. Cinereous Finch.

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JULY 26, 2019

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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FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Actively birding in Costa Rica as well as Nicaragua and Panama as well as the USA, Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Peru and Ecuador. Organization committee for the Arenal Annual Bird Count. Volunteer reviewer for eBird in Costa Rica.

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JANUARY 1, 2013

In early December we had the privilege of filming the inaugural Peru Birding Rally Challenge , a six day, five night event where teams from around the world compete to see the most species of birds. Happy New Year everyone!

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MARCH 1, 2021

But first take a moment and click through to some of the wonderful submissions from the month of February. There’s something for everybody! Costa Rica. Finca Luna Nueva Lodge. Arenal Observatory Lodge and Spa. Macaw Lodge. Birding Experiences. InkaNatura Travel. Bird Uganda Safaris. Birding Expeditions. Capture Africa Safaris.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Later in October, Cerulean and Blackburnian Warbler from the Eastern humid Andes of Peru began to show up in Facebook posts. Shorebirds flagged in Peru. Shorebirds appeared in posts by folks from Peru, Chile and Argentina not from folks from Central America. Cerulean Warbler. Photo: Evelyn Tavera.

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MAY 5, 2012

They offer multiple packages and we took a five day trip that took us right down to the border with Peru. If you are thinking about visiting the Amazon, and enjoying great birds, a bit of luxury, relaxation, and good food, then you should consider coming to Ecuador and gliding over the Napo River on the Manatee Amazon Explorer.

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AUGUST 13, 2015

This gull inhabits the high Andean plateau of Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina at elevations ranging from 3300 to 4400 m (10827 to 14436 feet). I guess, the black hood on the latter species, and the fact that both winter in Peru led me to associate them as relatives. It normally lives as far from the sea as can be.

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OCTOBER 13, 2011

A Hoatzin in Peru, spectacularly depicted in this image by Carine06. And which is also why it’s virtually impossible to find a description of the spectacular South American Hoatzin ( Opisthocomus hoazin ) that doesn’t in the first breath mention the bird’s highly enigmatic taxonomic status.

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MAY 8, 2012

Or are the deaths of dolphins and seabirds in Peru caused by something more nefarious?

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