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Written by Charles Hesse
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Aug 24, 2006 at 12:00 AM |
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YACUMAMA near RIOJA
PERU
SAN MARTIN (Compass)
Lat:00o00´S/00o00´W ha topography msl
Protected/registered status
Best Time for visit (1st July, 2006)
Birding Site Guide
Rioja which is a small city with several places to eat, sleep and do internet. We stayed at the 'Rioca' at 20s for a double. Yacumama is a 'tourist complex' about about 10-15 minutes drive towards Pomacochas from Rioja. There is a large sign on the main road where you turn right. The entrance is about 5 minutes from the main road. We went there in a car but you could easily catch a taxi or motor-tricycle. If it is not open first thing, you can walk along the track to the left of the entrance which goes along forest edge and open forest and has some very interesting birds including Capped Heron, Russet-crowned and Rufous-sided Crakes (both heard only), Crimson-crested Woodpecker, Pale-breasted Spinetail and Common Thornbird . In the complex itself, there are many palm trees good for Point-tailed Palmcreeper. Also there are some small lakes with kingfishers and the trail ends at a so called 'beach' by the Rio Negro from where we saw Striated Heron and Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture. In trees around the lakes we saw Lafresnayes Piculet, Dark-billed and Little Cuckoos and by the entrance we saw Gilded Barbet, Chestnut-breasted Seedeater and Chestnut-bellied Seed-Finch. There is a 1s fee to enter the complex.
I saw 65 species including 6 lifers.
Species seen
Capped Heron Pilherodius pileatus
Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis
Striated Heron Butorides striata
Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture Cathartes burrovianus
Roadside Hawk Buteo magnirostris
Black Caracara Daptrius ater
Barred Forest-Falcon Micrastur ruficollis Heard only
Speckled Chachalaca Ortalis guttata
Russet-crowned Crake Anurolimnas viridis Heard only
Rufous-sided Crake Laterallus melanophaius Heard only
Wattled Jacana Jacana jacana Seen nearby
Plumbeous Pigeon Patagioenas plumbea Heard only
Ruddy Ground-Dove Columbina talpacoti
Blue Ground-Dove Claravis pretiosa
Cobalt-winged Parakeet Brotogeris cyanoptera
Blue-headed Parrot Pionus menstruus
Dark-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus melacoryphus
Squirrel Cuckoo Piaya cayana
Little Cuckoo Piaya minuta
Smooth-billed Ani Crotophaga ani
White-collared Swift Streptoprocne zonaris
Fork-tailed Palm-Swift Tachornis squamata
Black-throated Mango Anthracothorax nigricollis
White-tailed Trogon Trogon viridis Heard only
Ringed Kingfisher Ceryle torquatus
Green Kingfisher Chloroceryle americana
Black-fronted Nunbird Monasa nigrifrons
Gilded Barbet Capito auratus
Chestnut-eared Aracari Pteroglossus castanotis
Lafresnaye's Piculet Picumnus lafresnayi
Little Woodpecker Veniliornis passerinus
Crimson-crested Woodpecker Campephilus melanoleucos
Pale-legged Hornero Furnarius leucopus
Pale-breasted Spinetail Synallaxis albescens
Common Thornbird Phacellodomus rufifrons
Point-tailed Palmcreeper Berlepschia rikeri
Cinnamon-throated Woodcreeper Dendrexetastes rufigula
Buff-throated Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus guttatus
Barred Antshrike Thamnophilus doliatus
Southern Beardless-Tyrannulet Camptostoma obsoletum
Yellow-bellied Elaenia Elaenia flavogaster
Dusky-capped Flycatcher Myiarchus tuberculifer Possibly seen
Brown-crested Flycatcher Myiarchus tyrannulus Possibly seen
Great Kiskadee Pitangus sulphuratus
Boat-billed Flycatcher Megarynchus pitangua
Social Flycatcher Myiozetetes similis
Tropical Kingbird Tyrannus melancholicus
White-winged Becard Pachyramphus polychopterus Possibly seen
Southern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx ruficollis
Thrush-like Wren Campylorhynchus turdinus
House Wren Troglodytes aedon
Black-billed Thrush Turdus ignobilis
Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus
Blue-gray Tanager Thraupis episcopus
Palm Tanager Thraupis palmarum
Blue Dacnis Dacnis cayana
Blue-black Grassquit Volatinia jacarina
Chestnut-bellied Seedeater Sporophila castaneiventris
Chestnut-bellied Seed-Finch Oryzoborus angolensis
Yellow-browed Sparrow Ammodramus aurifrons
Buff-throated Saltator Saltator maximus
Giant Cowbird Molothrus oryzivorus
Yellow-rumped Cacique Cacicus cela
Orange-backed Troupial Icterus croconotus
Other Fauna
A total of -- species of mammals.
There are -- recorded species of amphibians and reptiles.
Flora
Author: Charles Hesse
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