Amazon Birding Peru

21/01/2025

Birding Manu road with this amazing Cream-colored Woodpecker (Celeus flavus peruvianus) Carpintero Crema. Feeding Ants (Crematogaster) and termites; also eats fruit and
seeds. With geographical variation with four races. The race C.f. peruvianus (E Peru) browner in wings. This race was photographed at Mirador Pico de Hoz garden, along the Manu road 615 m / 2017 ft. Join us for an unforgettable birding, wildlife & photography experience in Peru and Bolivia. This is our email: [email protected] or visit our webside www.amazonbirding.com

15/01/2025

Birding southern Peru with this stunning monotypic Leymebamba Antpitta (Grallaricula leymebambae) Tororoi de Leymebamba. This near endemic antpitta was photographed in undergrowth of humid montane forest along the Manu road 2798 m / 9179 ft. Join us for an unforgettable birding, wildlife & photography experience in Peru and Bolivia. This is our email: [email protected] or visit our webside www.amazonbirding.com

12/01/2025

An incredible hummingbird, endemic and one of the top target species for birders, photographers and wildlife-enthusiasts! The Marvelous Spatuletail (Loddigesia mirabilis) Colibrí Cola de Espátula. This beauty was photographed in Cocachimba garden - northern Peru. Join us for an unforgettable birding, wildlife & photography experience in Peru and Bolivia. This is our email: [email protected] or visit our webside www.amazonbirding.com

09/01/2025

Birding Manu road with this stunning monotypic Scribble-tailed Canastero (Asthenes maculicauda) Canastero Estriado. Photographed along the Manu road in Puna grassland!!!

04/01/2025

Birding Manu road with great chances to photograph this peruvian endemic Red-and-white Antpitta (Grallaria erythroleuca) Tororoi Rojo y Blanco. We are visiting a new Antpitta feeder station along the world famous birding Manu road. Join us for an unforgettable birding, wildlife & photography experience in Peru and Bolivia. This is our email: [email protected] or visit our webside www.amazonbirding.com

05/12/2024

Birding & Monkey watching in the neotropics. Peru with 54 monkey species, which 9 are endemics. A lovely family Black-headed Night Monkey (Aotus nigriceps) Musmuqui/Mono nocturno de cabeza negra. Feeding on fruits, nectar, young leaves and buds, insects, and spiders. Breeding season occurs between August and February during the rainy season, when the fruit is abundant. Classified as Least Consern on the The IUCN Red List. Although the Black-headed Night Monkey is not generally hunted for food, considerable numbers of them were captured and exported to biomedical research laboratories in the 1970s because of their use in research on malaria and in oncology. These beauties were photographed in Cacao Center - Puerto Maldonado!!!

14/11/2024

Birding southeastern Peru with these stunning Purus Jacamars (Galbalcyrhynchus purusianus) Jacamar del Purús. They perch with the bill pointing slightly upwards, here they wait for some insects to fly by and dart out acrobatically, snap it up and return to the same lookout. Jacamars sally gracefully after flying insects (butterflies, bees, wasps, etc); bee and wasp stingers are removed before the insect is swallowed. Most Jacamar species nest in burrows dug into banks, a few using arboreal termiitaries or old wasp nests!!!

10/11/2024

Hudsonian Godwit (Limosa haemastica ) Aguja de Mar, a boreal migrant to Peru!!! This beauty was photographen in Chacan pond nearby Cusco city.

02/11/2024

Emperor Tamarins (Saguinus imperator) Tamarín Emperador are visiting the banana feeders in Manu Birding Lodge. Emperor Tamarins are often associated in mixed troops with Goeldi's Monkeys and Weddell's Saddle-back Tamarins feeding on fruit, insects, and in the dry season flower nectar. The face is dominated by long downcurling white mustaches which resemble of an old chinise emperor. Eleven species of monkeys are found in Manu Birding Lodge with a pristine and terra firme forest!!!

01/11/2024

Adaptations for camouflage. The wondrously crypic plumage of the adult Andean Potoo (Nyctibius maculosus) Nictibio Andino, combines perfectly with its erect, dead branch posture a predator avoidance behavior. This species has also evolved two small notches in its eyelids, an adaptation that permits it to glimpse its daytime surroundings without revealing it huge, night adapted eyes. By the Handbook of Bird Biology. This beauty was photographed along the world famous birding Manu road!!!

27/10/2024

The most rare and elusive monkey from the neotropics are visiting the banana feeders in Manu Birding Lodge. Goeldi's Monkey (Callimico goeldii) Tití de Goeldi, they forages low in the forest and prefers dense undergrowth and uses mostly primary forest with dense understory. Goeldi´s Monkeys eat fruit, gum, fungi, and small animals. Female Goeldi's Monkeys breed twice a year, the mother carries her infant exclusively for the first 3-4 weeks, the group members provide food items to the infants. Classified as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List. Goeldi's Monkeys are vulnerable because of their low densities, very patchy distributions, and habitat loss.

02/10/2024

Since 21 July 2020, Oxapampa Antpitta (Grallaria centralis) Tororoí de Oxapampa; it is a new species to Peru and science. Splitted from Rufous Antpitta (distinguishes sixteen species). This endemic antpitta was photographed in Satipo cloud forest in Junin department. Satipo road with high Andes, Elfin forest, Neotropical Cloud forest and foothills. Stunning habitats for mixed species flocks along the road.

30/09/2024

Birding Santuario de colibríes - Ensifera Ensifera along the sacred valley, Cusco. This amazing garden give you great chances to photograph many hummingbird species from the High Andes in Peru. Now days the new Antpitta feeding station with earthworms to appreciate this stunning Undulated Antpitta (Grallaria squamigera) Tororoi Ondulado. Shy, retiring, and infrequently seen even in optimal habitat; occasionally seen hopping along forest trails. Feeds mainly on earthworms, large arthropods and lizards!!!

29/09/2024

Stunning target species birding central Peru with this peruvian endemic Yellow-scarfed Tanager (Iridosornis reinhardti) Tangara de Bufanda Amarilla. Uncommon in lower growth and borders of upper montane forest and woodland up to treeline on east slope of Andes. Forages in pairs, frequently with mixed flocks!!!

28/08/2024

American Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla) Candelita Americana, a rare boreal migrant to Peru. This beauty was photographed at High Andes - Cusco 3396 m / 11143 ft.

24/08/2024

Birding northern Peru give you great chances to photograph this lovely family from Cinereous Tinamou (Crypturellus cinereus) Perdiz Cinérea. Photographed at Arena Blanca Lodge with great feeders for Tinamous, Woodquails, hummingbirds and Tanagers!!!

19/08/2024

https://searchforlostbirds.org/news/updating-the-lost-birds-list-to-2024?fbclid=IwY2xjawEwGNRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHdzai9Nu0vA-OxVOPGxWxUjXroAQeIfFYjKirO3UOOVt_WzpZosl3fVGjQ_aem_q5A7kC77DrFMPaFmRhDChw

What birds have been found since the first Search for Lost Birds List was launched in 2022? Have any new birds become Lost since then? We cover those questions and more in the 2024 list update.