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Birding in Peru / Birdwatching in Peru / Observación de aves en Perú

Birding in Peru – Marvelous Spatuletail & Long-whiskered Owlet (Part 3)

The third part of this trip to birding in Peru took us to the departments of San Martín and Amazonas, in search of the legendary Marvelous Spatuletail and Long-whiskered Owlet, among other endemic species.

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Birding in Peru / Birdwatching in Peru / Observación de aves en Perú

Birding in Peru – Santa Eulalia, Lima (Part 1)

In April 2025, we led a trip to birding in Peru with good friends who are birdwatchers and photographers, between the Andes near the city of Lima and northeastern Peru, where we managed to record almost 600 species in fifteen days. The first part of this birding trip in Peru is in Santa Eulalia.

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Scarlet-banded Barbet and Cordillera Azul Antbird tour. Barbudo de franja escarlata y Hormiguero de la Cordillera Azul

Photo report of Scarlet-banded Barbet & Cordillera Azul Antbird tour

At the end of the 2024 we made the tour Scarlet-banded Barbet and Cordillera Azul Antbird with Jörg & Sioh, bird lovers and wildlife photographers. Here is the great photographic result of them and the report list of species observed.

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Painted Manakin (Machaeropterus eckelberryi) in Morro de Calzada Amazon Center, Peru

Painted Manakin (Machaeropterus eckelberryi), a lately discovered species and endemic to Peru, was recorded due the bird monitoring developed in the Conservation and Recovery Zone – ZoCRE Morro de Calzada, during the period from September 2019 to September 2024.

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Top 10 birds of Northern Peru Birding Route

Top 10 birds of Northern Peru Birding Route

The Northern Peruvian Birding Route is one of the most biodiverse in the world with a record of more than 1500 bird species, starting in the northern Pacific coast, crossing the Andes to the Amazon lowlands (Promperu, 2023) and also with a high rate of endemism, and with unique species that only inhabit this corner of Peru and the planet (Young, 2007).

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