Dear all Recently went on a filming expedition to Central Peru organized by PromPeru (the state tourism board) for a birdwwatching promo video scheduled to be...
Gunnar - wow, what a shot - It is amazing that it is  possible that you could have taken that photo a few years earlier and be showing an incredible photo of...
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Jan 2, 2008 2:58 pm
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Hello Wim ten Have, Please send me more details of your White-whiskered Puffbird discovery in Pozo de Pato. As you know, I discovered Barred Puffbird there in...
Tino Mischler
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Jan 2, 2008 4:04 pm
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I everybody an happy new year: i am doing a revision of the Asthenes cactorum, Cactus canastero different populations plumage and morphology features, so...
Thanks John... Sent the pic to Josep del Hoyo....so hopefully it will make the HBW volume. Still,,,,,better than this pic... ... stunning sequences of GBMT.......
My friend Jorge Tori took a picture of some kind of bird that we can't id. It was seen near the town of Azpitia, Peru in the Mala valley. Any help would be...
Hi Larry, For me it looks like a chestnut-throated seedeater. Look at the color of the throat and the bill shape. Alejandro ... From: Larry Sirvio To:...
Dear Mauricio, Un amigo mio, Hansjakob Luethi, Swiss, has unpublished data on nests, locality, altitude etc. of Asthenes cactorum. May be you contact him at ...
Tino Mischler
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Jan 4, 2008 3:58 pm
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Alvaro Jaramillo sent me this regarding a Calidris seen at Laguna Arenilla at the tip of La Punta, Callao on the 31st of December and Jan 2. The original...
Folks Any information from Tacna of Tricolored Heron? Hay registros, de Tacna de Egretta tricolor? Por favor con copia a Sebastián Pardo (HYPERLINK ...
Hi, I have at least one observation of Tricolored Heron from Ite (1997?) I will check the information when I am back in Juliaca tomorrow. All the best, Tor...
Alvaro, Rodolfo Vicetti quien reside en Ilo está fotografiando las aves de la Bahía de Ite (entre Tacna e Ilo). Estos son los últimos humedales antes de la...
Plenge, Manuel
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Jan 5, 2008 2:57 pm
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Estimados amigos de birdingperu: Luego del terremoto que asolo la zona de Pisco y Paracas en Agosto, muchos lugares quedaron inhabilitados para el turismo, es...
Perubirders, Today while passing through the birdingperu sound files, I found this mystery from Lambayeque posted by Sjoerd Mayer: "So what is this? Recorded...
Hi Mauricio Happy New Year! I have thse pictures taken 17 kms from Nazca towards Abancay taken on 4 oct 2003. The bird is sand-bathing. It was in a valley near...
Dear all Believe it or not we relocated the bird, thanks to British birder David Wood....though David that has much experience Little Sandpiper said there was...
ALVARO EN CUANTO A LA INTERROGANTE SOBRE LA PRESENCIA DE LA GRAZA TRICOLOR ( Egretta tricolor ) EN TACNA PUES ACA LA VEMOS EN LA ZONA DE ITE YA POR VARIOS...
Christian Falla
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Jan 6, 2008 4:20 am
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Hi All, If the Little (Stint) Sandpiper was in adult winter plumage it would not show obvious braces on the scapulars. Also it dosn't show arrow marked...
I just upload some pictures taken this weekend of some neotropical cormorants. Neotropical cormorants are really common all around but seing this birds on...
4065 are Sanderling Calidris alba The other ones I think are Semipalmated all of them, based on the broad bases of the bills... However, plumage details are...
Hi all Hope you liked the new function in the photo section of www.birdingperu.com. Now you can open large picture directly from the page by clicking on...
Just uploaded a pic in the ID section of www.birdingperu.com IMG_3932.JPG What is the top bird. It looks much larger than the Western in the foreground. Could...
Looks like a 1st year bird to me. No webbing as far as I can see, I agree. Which suggests something good. Jizz doesn't look quite right for Little Stint (legs...
Interesting photograph. The top bird looks much larger, but I don't think it's a Dunlin. The long tibia suggests a relatively long-legged shorebird, whereas...
Joe The distance is not that different between the three birds and I am only using a 400mm lens (no converter). I may be wrong, but comparing many of my other...
Gunnar, I think you would do well to read the paper Joe mentioned, if you can find it (perhaps someone can scan it and post a PDF link?). The idea is that the...
Gunnar - I agree with Joe - it looks like a regular Western Sandpiper with an optical size illusion Barry Walker ******************************************* ...
Barry, Dan and Joe Thanks, I am convinced that I have been tricked by size illusion... Everyone seems to agree it is a Western. I never got into waders in ...