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[ currently offline ] Send Email Visit Website • Name: Gunnar Engblom • Gender: Male • Birthday: Monday, July 25, 1960 (Age: 49) • Location: Miraflores, Lima, Peru About Me Birder, biologist, runner, post-punkrocker, daddy, husband and owner, manager and guide of Kolibri Expeditions based in Lima, Peru. Gunnar has been living in Lima since 1998, but was spending several months every year in Peru since 1990, travelling, birding, guiding and surveying Polylepis forests in the High Andes. Gunnar has a particular interest in threatened birds and have conducted surveys for a number of species such as Peruvian Plantcutter, Titicaca Grebe, Golden-backed Mountain-Tanager and White-bellied Cinclodes. Gunnar has always believed that birding tourism can make a difference to local communiities and inspire to protect the habitat where threatened species are, if the same community recieves some tangible benefit. Websites: <a href="http://www.kolibriexpeditions.com">Kolibri Expeditions bird tour page.</a> The main outlet for birding tours in Peru and elsewhere in South America. There is something for all budgets. <a href="http://www.BirdingPeru.com">Birding Peru</a> - a portal with birding site info, database for observation, photo pages, etc. The site is connected with the <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Birdingperu/">Birding Peru yahoo email group</a>. <a href="http://www.kolibriexpeditions.com/birdingperu/blog">A birding blog from Peru by Gunnar Engblom</a>. The main blog housed on Kolibri Expedition's web-page. You find most frequent updates here. <a href="http://www.birdingperu.blogspot.com">Birding Peru blog</a>. This is the precursor to the above blog housed at Blogger. The activity is down now, but I may use it in a near future again since it is a very good place to share photos and I can upload the photos directly from Picassa. <a href="http://www.limasafaris.blogspot.com">Lima Safaris</a>. A blog where we present some excursions we sometimes organize for a small symbolic cost or much discounted to the local birders and nature lovers in Lima. In Spanish <a href="http://www.incaspiza.blogspot.com">Incaspiza blog</a>. Once in a while environmental issues are posted here with pictures. All text is in Spanish. It is a blog for the community of environmentalists in Per. Follow me on Twitter. http://twitter.com/kolibrix Also known as micro-blogging. Entries Written: 3 entries Comments Written: 0 comments Signup Date: March 5, 2009 Last Login: December 15, 2009 My Interests: (6) birding, marathon running, social media, photography, wine, music

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Birding Peru with Gunnar Engblom

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Birder, biologist, runner, post-punkrocker, daddy, husband and owner, manager and guide of Kolibri Expeditions based in Lima, Peru. Gunnar has been living in Lima since 1998, but was spending several months every year in Peru since 1990, travelling, birding, guiding and surveying Polylepis forests in the High Andes. Gunnar has a particular interest in threatened birds and have conducted surveys for a number of species such as Peruvian Plantcutter, Titicaca Grebe, Golden-backed Mountain-Tanager and White-bellied Cinclodes. Gunnar has always believed that birding tourism can make a difference to local communiities and inspire to protect the habitat where threatened species are, if the same community recieves some tangible benefit.