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Written by Charles Hesse
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Aug 24, 2006 at 12:00 AM |
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AGUAS VERDE
PERU
SAN MARTIN (Compass)
Lat:00o00´S/00o00´W ha topography msl
Protected/registered status
Best Time for visit (30th June, 2006)
Birding Site Guide
The next good stop down the road is called Aguas Verdes. There is a bridge of the same name and a restaurant just after this on the left. There is no accomodation but the restaurant people will let you camp in their yard and food is available. At dawn and dusk, Lyre-tailed Nightjar can be seen and more easily heard from in front of the restaurant. Other larger nightbirds flying at dusk were possibly Oilbirds. From the restaurant, walk towards the bridge (from where you can see White-capped Dipper) and turn left on a trail before it. This goes for quite a way and has some interesting birds like Olivaceous Greenlet, Inca Flycatcher and Slaty-capped Flycatcher. Accross the bridge and up the hill you will get to a trail turning left off the main road. This should be good in the morning and one of our group saw Amazonian Umbrellbird. The mainroad is also worth birding and we saw some interesting hummers. We tried another trail down towards Rioja turning right by some houses. The trail goes up through some forest but it was very quiet when we were there. Maybe we were just unlucky.
I saw 64 species including 3 lifers.
Species seen
Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
Roadside Hawk Buteo magnirostris Heard only
Scaled Pigeon Patagioenas speciosa
Plumbeous Pigeon Patagioenas plumbea
White-tipped Dove Leptotila verreauxi
White-eyed Parakeet Aratinga leucophthalmus
Smooth-billed Ani Crotophaga ani
Striped Cuckoo Tapera naevia Heard only
Lyre-tailed Nightjar Uropsalis lyra
Reddish Hermit Phaethornis ruber
Blue-fronted Lancebill Doryfera johannae
Blue-chinned Sapphire Chlorostilbon notatus
Fork-tailed Woodnymph Thalurania furcata
Golden-tailed Sapphire Chrysuronia oenone
Many-spotted Hummingbird Leucippus hypostictus
Chestnut-eared Aracari Pteroglossus castanotis
Black-mandibled Toucan Ramphastos ambiguus
Little Woodpecker Veniliornis passerinus
Montane Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes lacrymiger
Great Antshrike Taraba major Heard only
Plain Antvireo Dysithamnus mentalis
Stripe-chested Antwren Myrmotherula longicauda
White-crowned Tapaculo Scytalopus atratus
Andean Cock-of-the-rock Rupicola peruviana
Inca Flycatcher Leptopogon taczanowskii Endemic
Slaty-capped Flycatcher Leptopogon superciliaris
Golden-faced Tyrannulet Zimmerius chrysops
Rufous-tailed Tyrant Knipolegus poecilurus
White-winged Black-Tyrant Knipolegus aterrimus
Boat-billed Flycatcher Megarynchus pitangua
Streaked Flycatcher Myiodynastes maculatus
White-winged Becard Pachyramphus polychopterus
Blue-and-white Swallow Notiochelidon cyanoleuca
Southern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx ruficollis
White-capped Dipper Cinclus leucocephalus
Black-capped Donacobius Donacobius atricapilla
Thrush-like Wren Campylorhynchus turdinus
House Wren Troglodytes aedon
Gray-breasted Wood-Wren Henicorhina leucophrys Heard only
Scaly-breasted Wren Microcerculus marginatus Heard only
Black-billed Thrush Turdus ignobilis
Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus
Olivaceous Greenlet Hylophilus olivaceus
Rufous-browed Peppershrike Cyclarhis gujanensis Heard only
Bananaquit Coereba flaveola
Black-faced Tanager Schistochlamys melanopis
Yellow-throated Bush-Tanager Chlorospingus flavigularis
Ashy-throated Bush-Tanager Chlorospingus canigularis
Huallaga Tanager Ramphocelus melanogaster Endemic
Blue-gray Tanager Thraupis episcopus
Palm Tanager Thraupis palmarum
Purple-throated Euphonia Euphonia chlorotica
Orange-bellied Euphonia Euphonia xanthogaster
Paradise Tanager Tangara chilensis
Green-and-gold Tanager Tangara schrankii
Spotted Tanager Tangara punctata
Blue-necked Tanager Tangara cyanicollis
Yellow-browed Sparrow Ammodramus aurifrons
Grayish Saltator Saltator coerulescens
Buff-throated Saltator Saltator maximus
Venezuelan Troupial Icterus icterus
Yellow-rumped Cacique Cacicus cela
Dusky-green Oropendola Psarocolius atrovirens
Hooded Siskin Carduelis magellanica
Other Fauna
A total of -- species of mammals.
There are -- recorded species of amphibians and reptiles.
Flora
Author: Charles Hesse
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