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Tumbes Mangroves Natural Sanctuary and Tumbes Reserve Zone
Tumbes is ideal to spot mangrove birds like the yellow-crowned night-heron and seabirds of this tropical coast of the Pacific like for example Boobies. You can also spot birds of the tropical dry forest and tropical forest, usually seen in the Reserve Zone of Tumbes like the collared forest-falcon. In this habitat, you can find more than 60 species of endemic birds.
Mancora
Paradise in Northern Peru well known for its beautiful beaches. It also has important places to do bird watching. Mancora Lagoon and Quebrada Fernandez are some of those places.
Chiclayo: Chaparri Private Reserve
The first private protected area in Peru and first conservation area managed by a local rural community. In this reserve, there are different conservation projects, like the project to re-insert the white-winged guan (penelope albipennis), one of the 57 species of endemic birds that live in the dry forest in Peru. |
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Lima
Lachay Hills National Reserve and Villa Swamps Reserve Zone only 15 minutes from Lima. Here we can find the Villa Swamps Reserve Zone, these swamps with totora vegetation and lagoons, part of the neotropic migrating corridor of birds, are home of more than 150 species from Guanay cormoran to Osprey. Lachay Hills, 2 hours’ drive from Lima offers you a great biodiversity, with its unique vegetation, typically of the Lomas Costeras ecosystem, which is formed with the mist brought by the cold waters of the Humboldt Current. |
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Paracas: Ballestas Islands and 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 different species to observe between the islands and the National Reserve. But the most remarkable issue is not the biodiversity in species but the great biomass due to the large flocks of birds, which at the same time is a consequence of the great biomass in fish.
Arequipa: Colca Canyon, Salinas and Aguada Blanca National Reserve
The Colca Canyon in Arequipa, one of the deepest canyons in the world is the habitat of the biggest flying bird in the world, the Andean Condor. Salinas and Aguada Blanca National Reserve, also in Arequipa, protect a vast area of Puna and a salt lake, home of aquatic birds, many of which are endangered. It is possible to spot flamingos like Chilean Flamingo, Andean Flamingo & Puna Flamingo in this lake.
Puno: Lake Titicaca National Reserve
Lake Titicaca, at 3,837 meters above sea level, bathes the shores of the city of Puno. It gives its name to the reserve, which consists of the shores and water of the lake. With a surface of 36,180 acres in an eco-region called Puna, Lake Titicaca is the world’s largest navigable lake, and its conservation unit protects a large number of aquatic birds. The lake’s endemic Titicaca flightless grebe leads the list of birds in this habitat.
Cusco: Sacred Valley & Machu Picchu Natural and Historical Sanctuary
On top of its historic value, the beauty of its landscape and its climate, which make the visit to Machu Picchu and the Sacred valley of the Incas worthwhile, there is a great diversity of hummingbirds, parrots and birds of prey like the peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus).
Madre de Dios: Manu Biosphere Reserve & Tambopata National Park
This region is one of the most spectacular places to bird watch 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 colorful macaws in the clay licks of Tambopata river like the scarlet macaw, blue & yellow macaw, red & green macaw, from toucans to birds of prey and many more. Manu Park has up to at least 1000 of the 1800 birds of Peru and holds the record of 500 species registered in 1 square kilometer. |
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