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
- Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
- Rock Pigeon Columba livia Introduced species Seen in Yungay
- Eared Dove Zenaida auriculata
- Croaking Ground-Dove Columbina cruziana Photographed
- Striped Cuckoo Tapera naevia Possibly heard
- White-collared Swift Streptoprocne zonaris
- Sparkling Violet-ear Colibri coruscans
- Spot-throated Hummingbird Leucippus taczanowskii Endemic Photographed
- Giant Hummingbird Patagona gigas Photographed
- Purple-collared Woodstar Myrtis fanny
- Pale-tailed Canastero Asthenes huancavelicae Endemic Vulnerable
- White-crested Elaenia Elaenia albiceps
- Yellow-billed Tit-Tyrant Anairetes flavirostris
- Tawny-crowned Pygmy-Tyrant Euscarthmus meloryphus Possibly seen
- Vermilion Flycatcher Pyrocephalus rubinus
- White-browed Chat-Tyrant Ochthoeca leucophrys
- House Wren Troglodytes aedon Photographed
- Chiguanco Thrush Turdus chiguanco Photographed
- Cinereous Conebill Conirostrum cinereum
- Blue-and-yellow Tanager Thraupis bonariensis Possibly seen
- Band-tailed Sierra-Finch Phrygilus alaudinus
- Collared Warbling-Finch Poospiza hispaniolensis
- Blue-black Grassquit Volatinia jacarina Photographed
- Drab Seedeater Sporophila simplex
- Band-tailed Seedeater Catamenia analis
- Greenish Yellow-Finch Sicalis olivascens
- Rufous-collared Sparrow Zonotrichia capensis
- Golden-billed Saltator Saltator aurantiirostris
- Peruvian Meadowlark Sturnella bellicosa
- Scrub Blackbird Dives warszewiczi
- Hooded Siskin Carduelis magellanica Photographed
Other Fauna
A total of -- species of mammals.
There are -- recorded species of amphibians and reptiles.
Flora
Author: Charles Hesse
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