Oropendola - Birdwatching in Peru. Awesome jungle trips in Manu and madre de Dios.

NORTH SOUTH LA FLORIDa

 
The north of Peru is an extensive bio-geographical region including: Tropical Pacific, Andes, Central Yungas, Marañon, Central Sierra, Tropical Amazon, and Southern Amazon.

CAJAMARCA:

Cajamarca has exceptional birds including: the Purple-backed Sunbeam, Great Spinetail, Gray-bellied Comet, Yellow-breasted Brush-Finch, White-winged Cinclodes, Mountain Caracara, Mourning Sierra-Finch, Rusty-crowned Tit-Spinetail, Black Metaltail, Tyrian Metaltail, Gray-bellied Comet, Baron's

 

WHITE-BELLIED WOODSTAR

 

 

Spinetail, Spot-throated Hummingbird, Andean Swift, Green-tailed Trainbeared, Giant Hummingbird, Rusty-crowned Tit-Spinetail, Yellow-billed Tit-Tyrant, Black-crested Tit-Tyrant, Purple-collared Woodstar, Bright-rumped Yellow-Finch, Andean Hillstar, Black-chested Buzzard-Eagle.

 

VERMILION FLYCATCH ER

 

This valley descends from the mountains through evergreen forest and into the dry Marañon, through the Uctubamba River and to the Pedro Ruiz.  Birds in this region include: Black-crested Tit Tyrant, Jelski`s Chat-Tyrant, Fawn-breasted Tanager, Tri-colored Brush-Finch, Chesnut-crowned Antpitta, Rusty Flowerpiercer, Gray-winged Inca-Finch, Andean Parakeet, Rufous-breasted Warbling-Finch.

 

BATTERFLY

 

LA FLORIDA:

The region of La Florida and Pomacocha is characterized by second-growth scrub, humid mountain scrub, evergreen forest, freshwater marshes, agricultural fields and pastures, and lakes. The Marvelous Spatuletail – the most beautiful hummingbird in Peru – makes its home here and is easy to find around rosemary bushes. Pomacochas has a beautiful high-mountain lake at 2,000 m.a.s.l.

Birds found in the La Florida and Pomacocha region include:

MARVELOUS-SPATULETAIL

 

Marvelous Spatuletail, Plain-tailed Wren, Long-tailed Sylph, Speckle-faced Parrot, White-bellied Woodstar, Chesnut-crested Cotinga, Green-tailed Trainbearer, White-sided Flowerpiercer, Purple-collared Woodstar, White-crested Eleania, Highland Elaenia, Rufous-capped Antshrike,  Silver-backed Tanager, White-throated Hawk, White-rumped Hawk, Purple-throated Sunangel, Emerald Toucanet, Speckled-breasted Wren, Green-throated Tanager, Lesser Goldfinch, and Blue-browed Tanager.

LONG-TAILED SYLPH

 

A high-mountain region situated at 2,300 m.a.s.l. characterized by evergreen forest, second-growth scrub, and agricultural fields. Bird species include: Gray-breasted Mountain-Toucan, Slaty-backed Chat-Tyrant,  Lyre-tailed Nightjar, Rusty-tinged Antpitta, Rufous Spinetail, Variable Antshrike, Rufous-vented Tapaculo, Johnson’s Tody-Tyrant, White-throated Screech-Owl, Long-tailed Antbird, and Ocre-fronted Antpitta.

KING VULTURE

 


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