Oct
08
Peru: Looking Forward to Next Time!
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A thousand thanks to Gunnar for organizing my first visit to Peru. From the jungle to the mountaintops to the rocky coast, I saw well over 300 bird species over the week-and-a-little–more than I think I’ve seen in North America this entire calendar year!
I have no idea (and no time to figure out) how many of those birds were “lifers,” but it was a lot. And two of them represented life orders for me: the Sunbittern we found outside of Mankuzo and the natty little Humboldt Penguin, two of which Alejandro and I found swimming off the coast south of Lima on my last afternoon.
If you ever get a chance to go to Peru, all I can say is: Do it. Something tells me I’ll be following that advice myself again soon.
2 Comments
October 13th, 2010 at 8:44 pm
I really enjoyed reading about your trip! I leave for Peru this Friday to do the Carpish/Satipo Road trip with Kolibri. It was 20 years ago that I became a birder – in 1990 on the way to the newly created Manu National Park. Me and a Purple Gallinule not four feet from me in glorious sunlight – or, as my husband calls it, “The Bird that started all this madness”! I am so excited to be going back to Peru!
I hope you get to go back soon! Happy birding!
Deanna Campbell, Calgary
October 15th, 2010 at 9:09 pm
Looks like a great trip to Peru! Sweet birds and a lot of ‘em.