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Written by Charles Hesse
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Aug 24, 2006 at 12:00 AM |
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CARPISH TUNNEL
PERU
HUANUCO (Compass)
Lat:00o00´S/00o00´W ha topography msl
Protected/registered status
Best Time for visit (3rd June, 2006)
Birding Site Guide
This great birding site is very easily reached from Huanuco, a large city with good facilities. Take one of the many colectivos leaving for Tingo Maria. They will try and charge you the full fare of 15s but you should only pay 6-7s. The ride takes about 50 minutes. Get off before the tunnel and explore some of the forest nearby. There is a open area on the left here with a nice view over the forest. From here you can also get down a narrow trail to a little stream and beyond. Further down the road, there is a right bend at a small stream. This was mentioned in Valqui, but the trail along the stream is overgrown and the first part has been used as a toilet by motorists. By far the best area around here was a trail starting on the left just before tunnel. This goes up into a open grassy slope full of Black-and-white Seedeaters. Stick to the right of this area and follow the trail up. As you reach the trees, there is a fork. The right goes further up to another fork, both ways leading up to 2 large electricity pylons. After exploring these, take the first left fork which goes on for a long way through good scrub and secondary forest crawling with birds. If you continue along here, you finally get to a house after which the trail curves to the right and goes along to the other side of the tunnel. At this curve, there is also a trail leading straight on which I didn't go down but looks like it might lead through good habitat.
I saw 35 species including 4 lifers
Species seen
Andean Guan Penelope montagnii
Violet-throated Starfrontlet Coeligena violifer
Amethyst-throated Sunangel Heliangelus amethysticollis
Tyrian Metaltail Metallura tyrianthina
Rufous Spinetail Synallaxis unirufa
Azara's Spinetail Synallaxis azarae Heard only
Pearled Treerunner Margarornis squamiger
Streaked Tuftedcheek Pseudocolaptes boissonneautii
White-throated Tyrannulet Mecocerculus leucophrys
Sulphur-bellied Tyrannulet Mecocerculus minor
White-banded Tyrannulet Mecocerculus stictopterus
Ochraceous-breasted Flycatcher Myiophobus ochraceiventris
Cinnamon Flycatcher Pyrrhomyias cinnamomea
Peruvian Chat-Tyrant Ochthoeca spodionota Endemic
Rufous-webbed Tyrant Polioxolmis rufipennis
Barred Becard Pachyramphus versicolor
Blue-and-white Swallow Notiochelidon cyanoleuca
Andean Solitaire Myadestes ralloides Heard only
White-eared Solitaire Entomodestes leucotis Heard only
Great Thrush Turdus fuscater
Spectacled Redstart Myioborus melanocephalus
Citrine Warbler Basileuterus luteoviridis
Blue-backed Conebill Conirostrum sitticolor
Grass-green Tanager Chlorornis riefferii
Superciliaried Hemispingus Hemispingus superciliaris
Blue-capped Tanager Thraupis cyanocephala
Lacrimose Mountain-Tanager Anisognathus lacrymosus
Yellow-scarfed Tanager Iridosornis reinhardti Endemic
Chestnut-bellied Mountain-Tanager Delothraupis castaneoventris
Blue-and-black Tanager Tangara vassorii
White-browed Hemispingus Hemispingus auricularis Endemic
Black-and-white Seedeater Sporophila luctuosa
Moustached Flowerpiercer Diglossa mystacalis
Masked Flowerpiercer Diglossopis cyanea
Slaty Brush-Finch Atlapetes schistaceus
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 04:59 PM )
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