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PUEBLO LIBRE 
PERU

ANCASH (Compass)

Lat:00o00´S/00o00´W ha topography msl 
Protected/registered status 
Best Time for visit (25th March, 2006)

 

Birding Site Guide

Pueblo Libre is a spot for the 'Ancash' Pale-tailed Spinetail. The directions in Valqui are quite sufficient to find it. I stayed in Yungay where there are several hostels and restaurants. I stayed in Hostal Yungay (15s). Colectivos pass the plaza for Caraz 12km away. After 7.5km is the turn off for Pueblo Libre at a place called Puente Grande (2s). Cross the bridge and check the scrub on the right side straight afterwards. I saw Giant Hummingbird and Golden-billed Saltator here. From there it is 2km along the road to the town of Pueblo Libre through agricultural land with Blue-black Grassquit, Drab Seedeater and White-collared Swift. The road winds up through the town and a short distance after the very small plaza (Hooded Siskin and Greenish Yellow-Finch) there is a gravel road to the right. Valqui says go 2.5km along this road to the best spot for the canastero but I found them in scrub on a hillside in a small, dry valley less than 1km along. The road continues through dry scrub with some areas of cactus over a river. This area had Band-tailed Seedeater, Band-tailed Sierra-Finch and Collared Warbling-Finch. I saw 31 species including 3 lifers. 


Species seen


Other Fauna 
A total of -- species of mammals. 

There are -- recorded species of amphibians and reptiles. 

Flora 

Author: Charles Hesse

 

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