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Written by Charles Hesse
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Aug 24, 2006 at 12:00 AM |
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ABRA CHANCHILLO
PERU
AMAZONAS (Compass)
Lat:00o00´S/00o00´W ha topography msl
Protected/registered status
Best Time for visit (19th June, 2006)
Birding Site Guide
I visited this site with Fernando Angulo and Frank Lambert and got a lift up in their vehicle. It was about an hour and a half to 2 hour drive from Balsas towards Chachapoyas and would be difficult to get there without your own transport. The road winds up and passes a few buildings and entering a new valley. Here there is space to leave a vehicle. You can look down into the valley and see forest, a few houses and cultivated land below. A little further on is the beginning of a trail down. The first part of the trail was some very surprising cloud forest whose days would appear to be numbered. They are building a road down the hill towards a mine which is bad news for the forest. This is definately worth exploring. A few interesting species we saw here were Streaked Tuftedcheek, Black-crested and Russet-crowned Warblers, Golden-rumped Euphonia, Masked Yellowthroat, Bluish Flowerpiercer, Cloud-forest and Stripe-headed Brush-Finches.
Further down, the forest gets drier with more Acacia. Here we heard Chestnut-backed Thornbird (maybe only 1 pair) and saw Aplomado Falcon, Line-cheeked Spinetail, Chestnut-crowned Antpitta, Buff-bellied & Silver-backed Tanagers, Green Jay and Black-and-white Becard. The site is a strange mix of humid and dry habitats and certainly merits more exploration.
I saw 39 species including 1 lifer
Species seen
Black Vulture Coragyps atratus
Aplomado Falcon Falco femoralis
Band-tailed Pigeon Patagioenas fasciata
Eared Dove Zenaida auriculata
White-tipped Dove Leptotila verreauxi
Scarlet-fronted Parakeet Aratinga wagleri
Striped Cuckoo Tapera naevia Heard only
Sparkling Violet-ear Colibri coruscans
Spot-throated Hummingbird Leucippus taczanowskii Endemic
Andean Emerald Agyrtria franciae
Speckled Hummingbird Adelomyia melanogenys
Purple-collared Woodstar Myrtis fanny Heard only
Azara's Spinetail Synallaxis azarae Heard only
Line-cheeked Spinetail Cranioleuca antisiensis
Chestnut-backed Thornbird Phacellodomus dorsalis Endemic Vulnerable Heard only
Streaked Tuftedcheek Pseudocolaptes boissonneautii
Chestnut-crowned Antpitta Grallaria ruficapilla
Mouse-colored Tyrannulet Phaeomyias murina
Dusky-capped Flycatcher Myiarchus tuberculifer Heard only
Black-and-white Becard Pachyramphus albogriseus
Blue-and-white Swallow Notiochelidon cyanoleuca
House Wren Troglodytes aedon
Great Thrush Turdus fuscater
Tropical Gnatcatcher Polioptila plumbea
Green Jay Cyanocorax yncas
Masked Yellowthroat Geothlypis aequinoctialis
Slate-throated Redstart Myioborus miniatus
Black-crested Warbler Basileuterus nigrocristatus
Russet-crowned Warbler Basileuterus coronatus Heard only
Buff-bellied Tanager Thlypopsis inornata Endemic
Golden-rumped Euphonia Euphonia cyanocephala
Silver-backed Tanager Tangara viridicollis
Blue-black Grassquit Volatinia jacarina
Drab Seedeater Sporophila simplex
Bluish Flowerpiercer Diglossopis caerulescens
Yellow-breasted Brush-Finch Atlapetes latinuchus
Stripe-headed Brush-Finch Buarremon torquatus
Rufous-collared Sparrow Zonotrichia capensis
Streaked Saltator Saltator striatipectus
Other Fauna
A total of -- species of mammals.
There are -- recorded species of amphibians and reptiles.
Flora
Author: Charles Hesse
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Last Updated ( Jul 20, 2008 at 03:07 PM )
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