PEDRO RUIZ 
PERU

AMAZONAS (Compass)

Lat:00^o00´S/00^o00´W ha topography msl 
Protected/registered status 
Best Time for visit (22nd June, 2006)

Birding Site Guide

Pedro Luis is reached easily being on the main route between Chiclayo and Tarapoto. I went there from Leimbamba from where combis leave the plaza daily at 3 and 4am and cost 10s. Buy your tickets the day before. The journey takes 1 and a half to 2 hours. There are a few places to stay, eat and do internet. Of the 2 places to stay on the main road, Hospedaje Amazonense is the cheaper where a double costs 15s. 

My target her was the vulnerable Little Woodstar which can be seen about 4km away in Suyubamba. Take a motor-tricycle there for 3s privately or 1s each in a group. There is a bridge called 'Puente Suyubamba' before which on the left is a small garden with many flowers good for hummers like Long-billed Starthroat. Go over the bridge and up the hill out of town. Pass the Suyubamba sign coming the other way and look for a small trail on the right which goes through a nice shade coffee plantation. Walk along hr for 5 minutes to a fork where the right doubles back up the hill. Here was good for several species of hummers including Little Woodstar. I saw 37 species including 5 lifers.

Species seen

• Black Vulture Coragyps atratus
• Peruvian Pigeon Patagioenas oenops Endemic Vulnerable
• White-tipped Dove Leptotila verreauxi Heard only
• Scarlet-fronted Parakeet Aratinga wagleri
• White-winged Parakeet Brotogeris versicolurus
• Squirrel Cuckoo Piaya cayana
• White-collared Swift Streptoprocne zonaris
• Tawny-bellied Hermit Phaethornis syrmatophorus
• Reddish Hermit Phaethornis ruber
• Brown Violet-ear Colibri delphinae
• White-bellied Hummingbird Leucippus chionogaster
• Andean Emerald Agyrtria franciae Possibly seen
• Long-billed Starthroat Heliomaster longirostris
• Little Woodstar Chaetocercus bombus Vulnerable
• Plain Antvireo Dysithamnus mentalis
• Southern Beardless-Tyrannulet Camptostoma obsoletum
• Yellow-bellied Elaenia Elaenia flavogaster
• Small-billed Elaenia Elaenia parvirostris Possibly seen
• Torrent Tyrannulet Serpophaga cinerea
• Black Phoebe Sayornis nigricans
• Social Flycatcher Myiozetetes similis
• Tropical Kingbird Tyrannus melancholicus
• Yellow-cheeked Becard Pachyramphus xanthogenys
• Blue-and-white Swallow Notiochelidon cyanoleuca
• House Wren Troglodytes aedon
• Green Jay Cyanocorax yncas
• Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus
• Masked Yellowthroat Geothlypis aequinoctialis
• Slate-throated Redstart Myioborus miniatus
• Three-striped Warbler Basileuterus tristriatus
• Buff-bellied Tanager Thlypopsis inornata Endemic
• Hepatic Tanager Piranga flava
• Blue-gray Tanager Thraupis episcopus
• Purple-throated Euphonia Euphonia chlorotica
• Blue-necked Tanager Tangara cyanicollis
• Silver-backed Tanager Tangara viridicollis
• Streaked Saltator Saltator striatipectus

Other Fauna 
A total of -- species of mammals. 

There are -- recorded species of amphibians and reptiles. 

Flora 

Author: Charles Hesse

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