Trip Reports

Six go mad in the Manu, Peru, November 2003, author Surfbirds Admin (added September 27, 2004)
(3 weeks of mayhem in the world's most biodiverse forests)

Peru, November 2000, author Surfbirds Admin (added September 27, 2004)
(574 species in 25 days - highlights included the Blanquillo Macaw Lick)

Manu Biosphere Reserve, Peru, October 2000, author Surfbirds Admin (added September 27, 2004)

Wild Peru - Rio de Las Piedras, Tambopata and the Andes - 11 July 2002 - August 30th 2002, author Surfbirds Admin (link created September 27, 2004)
(by Tim Allwood)

Peru, June 2000, author Surfbirds Admin (link created September 27, 2004)
(by David Lange (with photos including Many-coloured Rush Tyrant))

Manu National Park, August - October 2001, author Surfbirds Admin (link created September 27, 2004)
(by Joe Tobias and Nat Seddon)

Manu Biosphere Reserve, Peru - 4th - 13th May 2011, author Barry Walker (link created September 22, 2011)
(Great views of Horned Screamer)

Manu Biosphere Reserve, Peru - 18th April - 2nd May 2011, author Barry Walker (link created September 22, 2011)
(Red-and-Green Macaws were star performers at the macaw lick)

Many Biosphere and Abra Malaga, Peru - 4th - 16th April 2011, author Barry Walker (link created September 22, 2011)
(Superb views of Red-and-white Antpitta)

Maranon endemic bird area, Peru - 9th - 18th June 2011, author Barry Walker (link created September 22, 2011)
(A wide variety of the special birds of this endemic area including 40 species of hummingbirds, 28 true Peruvian endemics and 14 other range restricted species)

Northern Peru and the Cordillera Blanca - 2nd - 27th October 2010, author Lieven De Temmerman (added September 15, 2011)
(Long-whiskered Owlet, Abra Patricia, Purple-backed Sunbeam)

Muyuna Lodge, dpto. Loreto, Peru: Wattled Curassow and more…, author Guy Kirwan (added October 4, 2008)

Peru August 2006 by Sue Bryan, author Sue Bryan (link created October 3, 2006)
(Lima ,Machu Picchu, Manu, Ballesteros Islands)

South East Peru: July 11th – July 25th 2004, author Mike Nelson (added October 25, 2011)
(Tambopata, Posadas Amazonas, Cuzco, Machu Picchu, Lake Titicaca)

Peru - August 2006, author Mark Sutton (added October 23, 2006)

Apurimac, Peru 13th - 17th November 2004, author Michael J. Andersen (added October 10, 2005)
(Bosque Ampay, Runtacocha, polylepis, Abancay, Podocarpus, Synallaxis courseni, Schizoeca, Atlapetes forbsei, Taphrospilus, Anairetes alpinus, Xenodacnis parina, Oreomanes frazeri, Scytalopus, Cinclodes aricomae)

Eastern Pacific Cruise - October 29th - November 22nd 2009, author Gail Mackiernan (link created October 1, 2010)
(California, Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru and Chile, Yellow-footed Gull, Galapagos, De Fillipe's and Juan Fernandez Petrels, Hornby's Stormpetrel, Chestnut-throated Huet-huet)

Peru - March 2008, author Mohamad Mahdi (link created May 8, 2008)
(Huacarpay Lake, Abra Malaga, Machu Picchu, Manu, Cock of The Rock Lodge area, Maldonaldo, Tambopata Lodge)

New 'Cnipodectes' species near Iberia, Peru - October 2003, author Pete Hosner (added May 28, 2006)
(Until this sighting, all other localities were either remote or in areas of Manu not accessible to birders)

Peru, January 2009 - Explorers Inn, Puerto Maldonado and Pantanos de Villa, author Gary Crowder (link created May 25, 2009)
(Explorers Inn, Agami Heron, Boat-billed Heron, Brazilian Tinamou, Rufous-capped Nunlet, Point-tailed Palmcreeper, Puerto Maldonado, Pantanos de Villa)

Ecuador, six months 2003, author Roger Ahlman (link created May 20, 2005)
(Travelinfo, sitemaps, photos, useful!)

Central Peru March 2005, author Roger Ahlman (link created May 20, 2005)

Peru, five months 2003, author Roger Ahlman (link created May 20, 2005)
(Travelinfo, sitemaps, photos, useful!)

Peru, Cordillera Blanca June 2004, author Roger Ahlman (link created May 20, 2005)

Peru, Satipo Road April 2001, author Roger Ahlman (link created May 20, 2005)

Peru, Satipo Road June 2003, author Roger Ahlman (link created May 20, 2005)

Peru, Manu Road Dec 2004, author Roger Ahlman (link created May 20, 2005)

Peru, North and Central Aug-Sep 1998, author Roger Ahlman (link created May 20, 2005)

Peru, North July 2003, author Roger Ahlman (link created May 20, 2005)

Peru, North Feb 2005, author Roger Ahlman (link created May 20, 2005)

Peru, North march 2005, author Roger Ahlman (link created May 20, 2005)

Peru, North and Central Jul-Aug 2000, author Roger Ahlman (link created May 20, 2005)

Peru, North Dec 2002, author Roger Ahlman (link created May 20, 2005)

Peru, North Oct 2002, author Roger Ahlman (link created May 20, 2005)

Peru - The Manu Biosphere Reserve - November 2007, author Barry Walker (added May 18, 2008)
(Cloud Forests and Lowland Amazonian Rainforest)

Peru - Cloud Forest and Amazonian Rainforest - March 22nd – April 9th 2008, author Barry Walker (added May 18, 2008)
(Visited several wonderful lodges strategically placed at varying altitudes in the Cloud Forest and Lowland Amazonian rainforest of the Manu Biosphere Reserve)

Northern Peru - January 22nd - 31st 2009, author Charlie Vogt (added May 14, 2009)

Northern Peru - 25 October - 9 November 2008, author Charlie Vogt (added May 14, 2009)

Southern Peru, 8th - 31st October 2004, author Allan Drewitt (added March 15, 2005)
(Ballestas Islands, Marcapomacocha, Manu Road, Pantiacolla Lodge, Abra Malaga)

Northern and Central Peru – 20 October – 16 November 2007, author David Beadle (added March 10, 2008)
(extensive trip to Northern Peru designed to visit most of the key sites in order to see as many endemic birds as possible)

Northern & central Peru September-November 2008, author Guy Kirwan (link created June 7, 2009)
(Over 1000 species including many endemics + 50 photos)

North Peru sept - Oct 2006, author Bas Van de Meulengraaf (link created June 4, 2007)
(North Peru 2006 with more than 700 species, including White-faced Antbird and Orange-throated Tanager)

Southern and West-Central Peru - 27th August to 16th September 2006, author Ian Merrill (added June 14, 2007)
(730 species seen in three weeks, including Junin Grebe, Blue-headed Macaw, Scarlet-hooded Barbet, Royal and White-bellied Cincloides, Peruvian Recurvebill, Rufous-fronted Antthrush and Red-and-white Antpitta.)

Northern and Central Peru - September - November 2008, author Guy Kirwan (added June 12, 2009)
(Wattled Curassow, White-bellied Dacnis and over 1,000 species)

Peru Mar-Apr 03, South & Central, author Bas Van de Meulengraaf (link created July 31, 2006)
(561 species in 6 weeks, visiting Puerto Maldenado, Bosque Unchog and many more sites)

Peru Manu Biosphere Reserve - August 2005, author Barry Walker (link created July 29, 2006)
(World's best birding trip)

Peru - The Manu Biopshere Reserve and Cusco area, author Barry Walker (link created July 29, 2006)
(Manu, Machu Picchu and Abra Malaga)

Peru - The Manu Biosphere Reseve, author Barry Walker (link created July 29, 2006)
(Manu, Colca Canyon, Central Highway)

Peru - Manu Rainforest 2003, author Barry Walker (link created July 29, 2006)
(Manu, Machu Picchu and Abra Malaga)

Peru - Manu and the south-east, author Barry Walker (link created July 29, 2006)
(Manu rainforest, Arequipa area, Machu Picchu and Abra Malaga)

Peru - 13th January - 31 May 2006, author Frank Rheindt (added July 12, 2007)
(five months birding, almost 900 species and 60 pages of trip report !)

Peru - July 2005, author Stuart White (added July 12, 2006)
(Manu Road, Amazonia Lodge, Pantiacolla Lodge, Abra Malaga, Santa Eulalia Valley with Tanager Tours)

South Peru April 1999, author John van der Woude (link created January 25, 2011)
(Tambopata, Cuzco, Paracas)

Peru - Nine weeks of budget birding from South to North (June 13th - August 14th 2009), author Craig Evenhouse (added January 18, 2010)
(Arequipa Area, Lake Titicaca, Manu Road, Abra Malaga, Abra Patricia, Piura Highlands)

Two Go Mad at Abra Patricia - 10 days in the Peruvian Andes: Oct 28th - Nov 7th 2007, author Chris Goodie (added February 21, 2008)
(A report on a visit to Tarapoto, Rioja and Abra Patricia)

Northern Peru, January 22nd - 31st 2009, author Forrest Rowland (added February 12, 2009)
(Northern Peru circuit, Abra Patricia, Olmos, Marvelous Spatulatetail, White-winged Guan, Lulu's Tody-Tyrant)

Northern Peru - Tumbes and the Maranon with Toucan Tours - October 1st - 21st 2005, author Colin Bushell (added December 29, 2005)
(Marvellous Spatuletail, White-winged Guan, Yellow-faced Parrotlet,Peruvian Plantcutter, Rufous Flycatcher, Royal Sunangel, Grey-bellied Comet, Russet-mantled Softtail, Great Spinetail, 3 inca-finches.)

North Peruvian and Tumbesian Endemics, author Barry Walker (added December 27, 2007)
(Birding trip to the Maranon and Tumbesian endmeic bird areas, North Peru. Extension to Machu Picchu, Abra Malaga, Abancay, Santa Eulalia, Lomas de Lachay, the Peruvian coast and Marcapomacha)

Northern Peru, author Barry Walker (link created December 27, 2007)
(Trip report for a birding trip to the Maranon and Tumbesian endemic bird areas, northern Peru. Extension to Machu Picchu, Abra Malaga, abancay, Santa Eulalia, Lomas De Lachay, the Peruvian Coast and Marcapomacocha)

Cuba: Toucan Birding tours April 2005 Led by Colin Bushell (www.toucantours.co.uk), author Colin Bushell (added December 20, 2005)
(Blue-headed Quail-Dove at Soroa, Gundlach's Hawk at Zapata, Cuban Grassquit at Bermeja)

Peru, 3rd - 22nd September 2005, author Martin Tribe (added December 14, 2005)
(Splits and various taxonomic indecisions aside we recorded a group total of 576 species)

Peru: The Central Andes - 9th - 22nd June 2007, author Steve Arlow (added August 29, 2007)
(After reviewing various trip reports and field guides it seemed that Peru would be the ideal choice in terms of species per budget ratio.)

Northern Peru - October - November 2005, author Jan Vermeulen (added August 12, 2006)
(Quebrada Frejolillo, White-winged Guan, Abra Porculla, Piura Chat Tyrant, Pomacochas, Marvellous Spatuletail)

Birding trip to the Central Andes of Peru - July 2007, author Barry Walker (added April 6, 2008)
(Puna grassland, cloud forest, west slope endemics, Flightless Grebe, Oilbirds and Bosque Unchog)

Peru - Manu Biosphere Reserve, Abra Malaga and Apurimac Region - November - December 2007, author Barry Walker (added April 6, 2008)
(Cloud forests, Lowland rainforest and Maca lick)

Northern Peru 14th June -1st July 2004 by Simon Mahood, author Simon Mahood (added April 3, 2005)