INFO BIRDWATCHING PERU

Peru is home to some 1780 species of bird (18.5% of all the bird species in the world and 45% of all neotropical birds). There are 125 true endemic birds. The political violence of the 80´s and the beginning of the 90´s has come to an end now. Peru has recently also subdued Coca-growing in many areas, which is why suddenly, practically the whole country lies open for birding and is safer than most places of South America. A birding trip is possible during any month as birds breed all year round.

Manu Biosphere Reserve

Peru''''s Manu Biosphere Reserve has the highest concentration of bird life on Earth. At the time of writing approximately, 925 species have been recorded. Ornithologists expect this figure to break the 1000 mark in the near future as remoter areas of the reserve are explored. There are a little under 9000 species of birds in the world, meaning Manu holds one in every nine species found on the planet. No other protected area on Earth contains so many birds. The mountainous region is accessed with high clearance vehicles with the final destination in Mashko lodge  which hold over 500 species of birds.

This is also the port of lowland Manu. Blanquillo lodge actually is one of the best lodge for birding  situated outside of the national park. It has a variety of microhabitats, including good bamboo areas as well as easily accessible terra firma and heliconia thickets, as well as an excellent canopy tower and oxbow lakes that makes this one of the top lodges on the continent. It is however quite expensive and you have to arrange for a boat to get there in advance, or fly in and out from Cusco to Boca Manu.

 Manu Biosphere Reserve Birds

Cock of the Rock	American Kestrel	Black Faced-Ibis	Bat falcon
Andean Cock of the Rock	Many Spotted Hummingbird	Collared Trogon	White Eyed Parakeet
Black Streaked Puffbird	Blue Banded Toucanet	Blue and Yellow Macaw	Blue Tailed Emerald
Bluish Fronted Jacamar	Chestnut Eared Aracari	Golden Headed Quetzal	Collared Puffbird
Female Cock of The Rock	Golden Bellied Grosbeak	Golden Collared Tanager	Crimson Mantled Woodpecker
Golden Tailed Sapphire	Green Jay	Higland Motmot	Hoatzin
Hooded Mountain Tanager	Masked Crimson Tanager	Rufous Crested Coquette	Scarlet Bellied Mountain Tanager
Macaw Clay Lick	Macaw Clay Lick	Juv. Purple Gallinule	Masked Trogon
Nightjar-sp	Parrot Clay Lick	Purple Gallinule	Red Capped Cardinal
Roadside Hawk	Royal Flycatcher	Rufescent Tiger Heron	King Vulture
Long Tailed Sylph	Scarlet Macaw	Shining Sunbeam	Sickle Winged Guan
Speckled Faced Parrot	Sunbittern	Variable Hawk	Violet Fronted Brilliant
Violet Fronted Brilliant	Wattled Jacana	White Collared Jay	White Necked Jacobin
white Rumped Hawk	White Throated Toucan	Wood Stork	Great Black Hawk
Yellow Rumped Cacique	Yellow Throated Tanager	Yellow Browed Tody Flycatcher	Solitary Eagle

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