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Written by Charles Hesse
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Aug 24, 2006 at 12:00 AM |
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LSU camp
PERU
SAN MARTIN (Compass)
Lat:00o00´S/00o00´W ha topography msl
Protected/registered status
Best Time for visit (27th-28th June, 2006)
Birding Site Guide
From Alto Nieva walk about 1km to a restaurant called Chanchita. From here you get a nice view over the lower section of the valley. Scan here for Raptors. I saw White-throated Hawk and Swallow-tailed Kite soaring by. From here, it's about another 4km down to a bend with a couple of houses. This used to be at km 389 but would now be at km378. The road here was under repair though and there was no marker. At the house as for Juan Rojas or nearby for Ronald Espinar who could be employed as guides. An admission to the trail may also be charged. We were unlucky with the weather and got rained on heavily. The trail is fairly straight forward but at the first quebrada don't cross straight over where a small trail continues passed a small pond on the right. Instead, walk down the quebrada about 50m to where the trail continues on the other side. From here it is a good trail. The number of quebradas on the map in Valqui corresponds to the rivers and not the several small streams that cross the trail. After another fairly large river crossing, you get to a large open area where you can camp. I assume this was the LSU camp used in 2002. It was very boggy but a flat, elevated area on the right with a wooden frame had better draining.
The trail on the way there passed through some nice forest and the forest edge around the camp had excellent birding in the morning with good mixed flocks. I also heard Rufous-sided Crake in the clearing. Another good spot was just 5 minutes along the trail from the main road where I had an excellent tanager flock, including Blue-naped Chlorophonia, Straw-backed, Vermillion, Orange-eared and Metallic-green Tanagers. My plan was to follow the instructions in Valqui and go up to a place called Utter Solitude to look for Ochre-fronted Antpitta and Long-whiskered Owlet but from the camp site another river was a gushing torrent and I couldnt pass.
I saw 40 species including 9 lifers.
Species seen
Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
Swallow-tailed Kite Elanoides forficatus
Barred Hawk Leucopternis princeps Rare/Accidental
Short-tailed Hawk Buteo brachyurus
Rufous-sided Crake Laterallus melanophaius
Plumbeous Pigeon Patagioenas plumbea Seen nearby
Scarlet-fronted Parakeet Aratinga wagleri Possibly seen
Booted Racket-tail Ocreatus underwoodii
Long-tailed Sylph Aglaiocercus kingi
Golden-olive Woodpecker Piculus rubiginosus
Ash-browed Spinetail Cranioleuca curtata
Rufous-rumped Antwren Terenura callinota
Large-footed Tapaculo Scytalopus macropus Endemic
Marble-faced Bristle-Tyrant Pogonotriccus ophthalmicus Possibly seen
Sulphur-bellied Tyrannulet Mecocerculus minor Possibly seen
Cinnamon Flycatcher Pyrrhomyias cinnamomea
Rufous-tailed Tyrant Knipolegus poecilurus
Barred Becard Pachyramphus versicolor
House Wren Troglodytes aedon
Bar-winged Wood-Wren Henicorhina leucoptera Endemic Near-threatened
Andean Solitaire Myadestes ralloides Heard only
Great Thrush Turdus fuscater Heard only
Green Jay Cyanocorax yncas
Slate-throated Redstart Myioborus miniatus
Three-striped Warbler Basileuterus tristriatus
Ashy-throated Bush-Tanager Chlorospingus canigularis
Vermilion Tanager Calochaetes coccineus
Blue-winged Mountain-Tanager Anisognathus somptuosus
Orange-bellied Euphonia Euphonia xanthogaster
Blue-naped Chlorophonia Chlorophonia cyanea
Orange-eared Tanager Chlorochrysa calliparaea
Saffron-crowned Tanager Tangara xanthocephala
Flame-faced Tanager Tangara parzudakii
Metallic-green Tanager Tangara labradorides
Blue-necked Tanager Tangara cyanicollis
Beryl-spangled Tanager Tangara nigroviridis
Straw-backed Tanager Tangara argyrofenges
Black-and-white Seedeater Sporophila luctuosa Heard only
Scarlet-rumped Cacique Cacicus uropygialis
Dusky-green Oropendola Psarocolius atrovirens
Other Fauna
A total of -- species of mammals.
There are -- recorded species of amphibians and reptiles.
Flora
Author: Charles Hesse
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