Hi All Just a few Asian birds to start with. FIRETHROAT CUTIA FIRE-TAILED MYZORNIS SIBERIAN CRANE STELLA'S SEA EAGLE WARD'S TROGON BEAUTIFUL NUTHATCH GIANT...
Hi Gunnar et al, When somebody says, this is a list of birds to see before you die, I don't feel good, because it is too much money to fly to places like...
How about just the top ten birds of Peru to see ? Â My first draft..........not in order although Spatuletail might be number one. Â Â Marvelous Spatuletail...
Dear all: I need information about what is the description of the form or subspecies of Megascops koepckeae (Koepcke's Screech Owl) for the area of Apurimac...
Jouaquín I have one picture from the Utcubamba valley here http://www.pbase.com/ahlman/image/106387190.On Surfbirds there is a better picture from Sincicap....
Joaquin The Apurimac form is collected I believe by Hocking, but it has not been described. It should be at the museum in Lima. I have some pictures. The...
Dear Joaquín Ugarte-Núnez (and Gunnar, who described while I was writing this) The Apurimac screech-owl is still not formally described and named. It was...
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[Observado.org] <http://observado.org/index.php?lang=en> Observado.org - el registro de avistamientos de aves If you can not read this message you can view...
I'll be doing a solo birding trip to Peru for 9 weeks this June - August and have been trying to collect updated site information. Can anyone tell me the...
Dear Craig, Try to get Thomas Valquis copy by all means, because it has detailed maps of the sites you want to see, and many more, which youy will touch on...
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Peru birders, I just want to share two sightings, with lot's of delay....., of two species of Martins at unusual high elevations. 2 Grey-breasted Martin at...
Hi Steve and Peru birders, Yes I think many of those you mention would hit my top 10 as well. It is a blogpost in preparation. I am taking a blogging course on...
Hi Manuel Sorry for the long delay in getting back to you on this. 1000 top birds for Peru and maybe even for the 3 countries together is probably too many. In...
Hi Fabrice Interesting records. The Grey-breasted Martins breed at Pomocochas in the hotel Puerto Pumas - under the eaves overlooking the pool. I suspect the ...
Does anyone know of up to date road conditions in Northern Peru. I had heard that as of 2 weeks ago it had rained a lot, causing some road closures. In...
Hi So back to birds it was! I am going through a lot of my pelagic pictures and I found these that have not been up for discussion earlier. The pictures jumped...
Gunnar, I think it is a Chilean Skua. The dark cap is a very good criteria for this species. I'm definitely not a Skua expert, but I never saw a Brown skua...
Gunnar Great! No more top 1000 birds to see before you run out of money - pheew. I much prefer this set, top ten most misidentified birds in Peru! The bird in...
Dear Perubirders, To let you know that I saw a male individual (twice) of Comb Duck at Rica Playa, Tumbes, inside the Cerros de Amotape National Park, at...
Actually, it bred in El Angolo Hunting Management Area on February-March 2006 (at around 550m), and I saw one flying over Quebrada Fernandez (130m) towards...
Hi Fabrice, I also have a sighting of a martin at high elevation, a Brown-chested Martin from Ondores, Junin, 21. December 2005. I was not aware of the two ...
Fernando, Last year, on summer, I saw five males of Comb Duck at "Laguna los Patos", Sullana - Piura (4º46'S, 80º36'WDiapositiva 4 #yiv1385222617 .O ...
Hola Fernando In 2001-2003 on several occasions I saw groups of Comb Ducks in the Quebrada Pilares area (to the the eastern side of PN Cerros de Amotape) along...
Also historical records (1950s) of the species from Las Lomas (road to Macara from Tambogrande), Piura. & W. Wust has it for Cabo Inga, on the east of the...
Wust, H. W. (Ed.). 1998. La Zona Reservada de Tumbes – Biodiversidad y Diagnóstico Socioeconómico. The John D. And Catherine C. MacArthur Foundation /...
... That would be a good record to enter into eBird! The earliest record that I know of for Tumbes was a group seen by Ted Parker and Walter Wust at Puerto...
I just uploaded 2 pictures of a Raptor, likely to be Hawk. I was thinking of a Variable Hawk but never saw one with the throat and the upper chest this white....
Alejandro Great shots and very good record from coastal Lima. It is a juvenile White-throated Hawk . Gunnar ... -- Gunnar Engblom-Lima, Peru. Kolibri...