Tour Overview
Northern Peru has a suite of birds not found anywhere else in the world, and holds some of the most remarkable species in a land renowned for its amazing avifauna. The Marvelous Spatuletail is surely among the most astonishing birds on earth, the endangered Peruvian Plantcutter is just one highly sought-after target species, and the Long-whiskered Owlet is simply astounding. And the list goes on – inca-finches, Marañon Thrush, Marañon Crescentchest, spinetails, softtails, lots of tanagers, foliage-gleaners, woodcreepers, ovenbirds, lots of Tumbesian specialties, and many endemics.
At dusk we look for White-throated Screech-Owl, Cinnamon Screech-Owl and Lyre-tailed Nightjar. Near Tarapoto, Wattled Guan, Orange-breasted Falcon, Bluish-fronted Jacamar, Gilded Barbet, Red-stained Woodpecker, White-fronted Tyrannulet, Dotted Tanager, Plumbeous Euphonia, White-tipped Swift, Koepke’s Hermit and gaudy birds such as Curl-crested Aracari and Andean Cock-of-the-rock occur.
Join us for a northern Peru birding tour to these amazingly diverse areas ranging from arid scrub and desert, through tropical thorn-forest and deciduous forest, to montane cloud forest and inter-mountain scrub, one of the richest and most threatened wildlife areas on earth.
