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Written by Charles Hesse
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Aug 24, 2006 at 12:00 AM |
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LAMPA
PERU
JUNIN (Compass)
Lat:00o00´S/00o00´W ha topography msl
Protected/registered status
Best Time for visit (30-31st May, 2006)
Birding Site Guide
Lampa is a slightly out of the way site and the type location for the endangered endemic Black-spectacled Brush-Finch. To reach here, first take a bus to Huancayo, a city with good access and facilities. From here take a car towards Pariahuanca. These leave from near the market when full. It takes about 2 and a half hours to Lampa (12s). Lampa is a nice little town with only 1 place to stay which is just 1 block from the plaza. It belongs to Marcelino who is trying to encourage toursim in the area. His Hospedaje is clean and has many beds but no doors to the individual rooms. There are a few simple restaurants and shops in town.
To get to the site for the brush-finch, look up hill from the plaza and you should see a path winding up the hillside. There is a road that runs along above the plaza to the right, round the ridge, into the small valley and over a small bridge. This is too far. Turn left off this road onto the steep path up the hill just after the restaurant and bfore a kind of blue, concrete pyramid. Just follow this path up which runs up the left side of the valley. The brush-finch is found in scrub between the fields quite early on. The vegetation further on is more natural and there is som nice forest. The trail crosses a bridge further up where I saw White-capped Dipper. Furher on I saw the strange race of Plain-tailed Warbler which associated with Citrine Warblers.
I saw 33 species including 2 lifers
Species seen
Andean Ibis Theristicus branickii Seen between Huancayo and Lampa
Torrent Duck Merganetta armata
Mountain Caracara Phalcoboenus megalopterus Seen between Huancayo and Lampa
Andean Lapwing Vanellus resplendens Seen between Huancayo and Lampa
Band-tailed Pigeon Patagioenas fasciata
White-tipped Swift Aeronautes montivagus
Sparkling Violet-ear Colibri coruscans
Shining Sunbeam Aglaeactis cupripennis
Mountain Velvetbreast Lafresnaya lafresnayi Possibly seen
Violet-throated Starfrontlet Coeligena violifer
Tyrian Metaltail Metallura tyrianthina
Long-tailed Sylph Aglaiocercus kingi
White-winged Cinclodes Cinclodes atacamensis Seen between Huancayo and Lampa
Red-crested Cotinga Ampelion rubrocristata
Torrent Tyrannulet Serpophaga cinerea
Cinnamon Flycatcher Pyrrhomyias cinnamomea
Rufous-breasted Chat-Tyrant Ochthoeca rufipectoralis
White-winged Black-Tyrant Knipolegus aterrimus
Blue-and-white Swallow Notiochelidon cyanoleuca
White-capped Dipper Cinclus leucocephalus
Plain-tailed Wren Thryothorus euophrys
House Wren Troglodytes aedon
Mountain Wren Troglodytes solstitialis
Great Thrush Turdus fuscater
Spectacled Redstart Myioborus melanocephalus
Citrine Warbler Basileuterus luteoviridis
Rust-and-yellow Tanager Thlypopsis ruficeps
Dull-colored Grassquit Tiaris obscura
Black-throated Flowerpiercer Diglossa brunneiventris
Black-spectacled Brush-Finch Atlapetes melanopsis Endemic Endangered
Rufous-collared Sparrow Zonotrichia capensis
Golden-billed Saltator Saltator aurantiirostris
Black-backed Grosbeak Pheucticus aureoventris
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 05:36 PM )
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