Bird Watching holidays trips

National Parks | Birdwatching | Rainforest

Peru Birdwatching Takes Flight With 1,800 Species

There are many important sites, but the key ones are: Manu, Tambopata & Madre de Dios, Malaga, Iquitos & the Ballestas Islands.

In Peru you can find 84 of the 114 identified living areas in our planet, in the Peruvian Amazon 1,800 varieties of birds, 120 of which are found nowhere else in the world. At least five new species have also been discovered as of this year and are still waiting official scientific description.

The enchanting beauty of the Andean geography, allows for quiet birdwatching as birds nest in the dense Amazon, or on the banks of noisy or peaceful rivers, or in the heights of the mountains, where you can see the majestic flight of the Condor (Vultur gryphus), the emblematic bird of the region.

There are many important sites, but the key ones are: manu, Tambopata & Madre de Dios, malaga, iquitos & the ballestasislands.

Tambopata & Madre de Dios
Cock of the rock
There are many more easily accessible lodges from Puerto Maldonado with much the same birds as Manu Wildlife Centre, but maybe not as birder friendly albeit less expensive. The most famous one - Explorer's Inn still holds the world record lodge list (close to 600 species) as well as the world record for a big day (Ted Parker and Scott Robinson 331 species). for more information and for tour cantact us
Manu
Guacamayo	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.for more information and for tour cantact us
Abra Malaga - Cusco
Chestnut-breasted Coronet (Boissonneaua mattewsii)	Conservation of fragmented forest patches with extremely threatened birds is difficult. At Abra Malaga in south-east Peru in the Cusco department there is 10 hectare area of Polylepis woodland at 4000-4300m and some adjacent smaller patches. Among the critically threatened and endangered birds there are White-browed Tit-Spinetail Leptasthenura xenothorax, Royal Cinclodes Cinclodes aricomae and Ash-breasted Tit-Tyrant Anairetes alpinus. The locality is very close to the road at the pass on the Cusco-Quillabamba road. for more information and for tour cantact us
Iquitos
Jungle Condor	Near Iquitos ACEER has the famous half-mile canopy walk way, worth a visit. Other good areas - recently opened - for lowland birding include Pucallpa, Tarapoto, Villa Rica-Puerto Bermudas road and Satipo. Birders still have to find the way here, but prices are lower and birds are plentiful.This park lodges the biggest protected area of Peru, and also the biggest area of flooded tropical forests in Peru. Inside of this forest it exists great biodiversity. for more information and for tour cantact us
Ballestas Islands
Zarcillos (Larosterna inca)
Paracas is one of the most biologically productive marine areas in the world, serving as a home for nearly 300 fish species, over 200 migratory bird species (60 of which migrate between Peru and the United States), and marine mammals and reptiles. for more information and for tour cantact us