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Tumbes Mangrooves Natural Sanctuary and Tumbes Reserve Zone
Tumbes is ideal to spot mangroove birds like Yellow-crowned Night-heron and seabirds of this tropical coast of the Pacific as Boobies. You can also spot birds of the tropical dry forest and tropical forest, usually seen in the reserved zone of Tumbes like Collared Forest-falcon. In this habitat you can find more than 60 species of endemic birds.
Máncora
Paradise on Northern Peru well known for its beautyfull beaches, has also important places to birdwatch. Mancora Lagoone and Quebrada Fernandez are one of those places.
Chiclayo: Ecologic Reserve Chaparri
The first private protected area in Peru and first conservation area manage by a local rural comunity. In this reserve there are diferent conservation proyects, like the proyect to reinsert the white-winged Guan (penelope albipennis) one of the 57 species of endemic bids that habist the dry forest in Perú. |
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Lima: Lomas de Lachay National Reserve & Pantanos de Villa Reserve Zone
At only 15 minutes from Lima we can find Pantanos de Villa Reserve Zone these swamps with totora vegetation and lagoons, part of the neotropics migrating corridor of birds, home of more than 150 species from Guanay cormoran to Osprey.
Lomas the Lachay instead 2 hours drive from Lima offers youn a great biodiversity tipycall of the Lomas Costeras ecosystem, wich is formed with the mist brought by the cold waters of the Humdbolt current with its unique vegetation. |
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Paracas:
Ballestas islands & Paracas National Reserve
No doubt the best place to observe common marine species like the Humboldt penguin, Peruvian Booby and many shore side species. There are about 200 diferent species to observe between the islands and the National Reserve. But the more remarkable issue is not the biodiversity in species but the great biomass due to the large flocks of birds, wich at the same time is a consecuence of the great biomass in fish.
Arequipa: Colca Canyon, Salinas & Aguada Blanca National Reserve.
In Arequipa we have for the birdders: the Colca Canyon the deepest canyon in the world habitat of the bigest flying bird of the world, the Andean Condor; and Salinas & Aguada Blanca National Reserve that protect a vast area of Puna and a salt lake, home of acuatic birds many of then in danger. In the lake is posible to spot flamingos like Chilean Flamingo, Andean Flamingo & Puna Flamingo.
Puno: Lake Titicaca National Reserve
Lake Titicaca, at 3,837 metres above sea level, bathes the shores of the city of Puno. It gives its name to the reserve, which comsists of shoreland and the waters of the lake. With a surface of 36,180 hectares in an eco-region called puna, Lake Titicaca is the world’s largest navigable lake, and its conservation unit protects a high number of aquatic birds. The lake’s endemic Titicaca flightless grebe leads the list of birds in this habitat.
Cusco: Sacred Valley & Machu Pichu Natural and Historical Sanctuary
In Cusco we have Machu Pichu that apart for his historic value which makes this tour wellworth, has a great diversity of Hummingbirds, Parrots and Raptors like the Peregrin falcon (Falco peregrinus). And the Sacred valley of the Incas worth to visit thanks to the beauty of the landscaoe and climate.
Madre de Dios: Manu Biosphere Reserve & Tambopata National Park
This region is one of the most spectacular places to birdwatch in Peru, in both units of SINANPE Manu and Tambopata, you can find remarkable species from the Cock of the rock in the cloud forests of Manu Park to colorfull macaws in the clay leeks of Tambopata river like Sacarlet macaw, Blue & Yelow macaw, Red & Green macaw; apart from Toucans, raptors and much more. Manu Park holds at least 1000 of the 1800 birds of Peru and a record of 500 species registered in 1 square kilometer. |
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