Birding Cusco - Peru. This morning we will drive from Cusco to Huacarpay 30 km, where we will head out with a picnic lunch to the Huacarpay lakes south of town. Here we will see a variety of high Andean waterfowl, wetland birds, and a selection of typical highland passerines. We will likely see the spectacular and endemic Bearded Mountaineer feeding in Tabaco flowering bushes near the lake. One of our main goals is to find the Bearded Mountaineer, a spectacular hummingbird restricted to just a few arid valleys. Other birds we may well encounter here are White-tufted Grebe, Puna Ibis, Yellow-Billed, Puna and Cinnamon Teals, Andean Duck, Cinereous Harrier, Plumbeous Rail, Andean Coot, Andean Lapwing, Andean Negrito, Andean Gull, Burrowing Owl, the impressive Giant Hummingbird,Sparkling Violetear, Green-tailed Trainbearer, Andean Flicker, the endemic Rusty-fronted Canastero, Streak-fronted Thornbird, Many-colored Rush Tyrant, Wren-like Rushbird, White-browed Chat-Tyrant, Spot-billed Ground-Tyrant, Yellow-winged Blackbird ,Greenish Yellow-Finch and many more. In the late afternoon we will drive back to cuzco.
Birding Cusco - Peru.
ResponderEliminarThis morning we will drive from Cusco to Huacarpay 30 km, where we will head out with a picnic lunch to the Huacarpay lakes south of town. Here we will see a variety of high Andean waterfowl, wetland birds, and a selection of typical highland passerines. We will likely see the spectacular and endemic Bearded Mountaineer feeding in Tabaco flowering bushes near the lake. One of our main goals is to find the Bearded Mountaineer, a spectacular hummingbird restricted to just a few arid valleys. Other birds we may well encounter here are White-tufted Grebe, Puna Ibis, Yellow-Billed, Puna and Cinnamon Teals, Andean Duck, Cinereous Harrier, Plumbeous Rail, Andean Coot, Andean Lapwing, Andean Negrito, Andean Gull, Burrowing Owl, the impressive Giant Hummingbird,Sparkling Violetear, Green-tailed Trainbearer, Andean Flicker, the endemic Rusty-fronted Canastero, Streak-fronted Thornbird, Many-colored Rush Tyrant, Wren-like Rushbird, White-browed Chat-Tyrant, Spot-billed Ground-Tyrant, Yellow-winged Blackbird ,Greenish Yellow-Finch and many more. In the late afternoon we will drive back to cuzco.