Please help us conserve one of the most enigmatic owl species of the world, the Long-whiskered Owlet. This species was discovered in 1976 and since then has been observed in the wild only by a few people, perhaps less than 10 times. It is found only in the montane forests of northern Peru, an [...]
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The Andes mountains of Peru, which runs from the north of the country to the south, forms a very effective barrier against the humid winds from the Amazon basin, leaving the western slopes without rainfall needed to sustain extensive tropical forests. These dry slopes are dominated by cactus and small shrubs. At least that’s the general [...] Our first trip of the year in northern Peru was a success! We spent a few days at the Private Conservation Area of Chaparrà taking pictures of birds and animals found in this beautiful forest. Chaparrà is a reserve that protects 34 thousand hectares of dry forest in the Tumbesian Endemic Bird Area. The reserve [...]
The Marvelous Spatuletail is a small hummingbird restricted to a tiny area inside the Uctubamba Valley in the Peruvian Andes. This small hummingbird is known from three areas (north and south-east of Leimebamba, the Chachapoyas area and Florida, on the shore of Lago Pomacochas). However, the only recent records are from Florida. It lives at [...] |
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