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Written by Charles Hesse
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Aug 24, 2006 at 12:00 AM |
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PUENTE FIERRO, near CHANCHAQUE
PERU
PIURA (Compass)
Lat:00o00´S/00o00´W ha topography msl
Protected/registered status
Best Time for visit (13th-15th March, 2006)
Birding Site Guide
Canchaque is apparently 77km from the turn-off on the Pan-americana and usually 4 hours by bus. The route below Canchaque was blocked by landslides and buses where passing a different way through El Faique. Canchaque is a small town but has a couple of places to stay and eat near the plaza but no internet. I stayed at Hostal Don Felix (S10). Chestnut-collared Swallows nested under the rooves of town buildings. A spot on the way up to Huancabamba good for birding is Puente Fierro, a disused iron bridge. This is apparently 85km from the turn-off, 8km above Canchaque. This took 2 and a half hours walking up hill (via Palabla) but only an hour and a half using a short cut path (good for Black-cowled Saltator) leading up from the mirador in Canchaque over-looking the church. The area around the bridge has lots of bamboo and Masked Saltator and Grey-headed Antbird have been seen here. I saw neither. Another spot mentioned was 4km and a couple of bends further on. I found the best spot was about 500m past the bridge overlooking a slope downhill. Here I saw some mixed tanager flocks including Fawn-breasted, Rufous-chested Tanagers and Piura Hemispingus. Between where the short-cut path comes out and the bridge I saw Rufous-necked Foliage-gleaner. White-winged (Paynter's) Brush-finch and Three-banded Warbler were common all the way down to Canchaque. Whilst waiting for a landslide to be cleared near the top of the road (about 2800m), I saw White-browed Spinetail with chicks just left the nest (nest and chicks photographed). At a river-crossing on the way back to Piura, 3 Comb Ducks were seen flying over. I saw 53 species including 8 lifers.
Species seen
Great Egret Ardea alba Seen between Canchaque & Piura
Snowy Egret Egretta thula Seen between Canchaque & Piura
Comb Duck Sarkidiornis melanotos Seen between Canchaque & Piura
Black Vulture Coragyps atratus
Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
Savanna Hawk Buteogallus meridionalis Seen between Canchaque & Piura
American Kestrel Falco sparverius
Band-tailed Pigeon Patagioenas fasciata
Pacific Parrotlet Forpus coelestis Seen between Canchaque & Piura
Groove-billed Ani Crotophaga sulcirostris Seen between Canchaque & Piura
Peruvian Pygmy-Owl Glaucidium peruanum Seen between Canchaque & Piura
Sparkling Violet-ear Colibri coruscans Heard below the ridge above Puente Fierro (2,800m)
Amazilia Hummingbird Amazilia amazilia
Shining Sunbeam Aglaeactis cupripennis Seen below the ridge above Puente Fierro (2,800m) Photo'd
Ringed Kingfisher Ceryle torquatus Seen between Canchaque & Piura
Pale-legged Hornero Furnarius leucopus
Azara's Spinetail Synallaxis azarae Recorded
White-browed Spinetail Hellmayrea gularis Seen below the ridge above Puente Fierro (2,800m) Photo'd
Rufous-necked Foliage-gleaner Syndactyla ruficollis Vulnerable
Chestnut-crowned Antpitta Grallaria ruficapilla Heard only Recorded
Elegant Crescent-chest Melanopareia elegans
Southern Beardless-Tyrannulet Camptostoma obsoletum
Tropical Pewee Contopus cinereus
Dusky-capped Flycatcher Myiarchus tuberculifer
Boat-billed Flycatcher Megarynchus pitangua
Tropical Kingbird Tyrannus melancholicus
Gray-breasted Martin Progne chalybea Seen in Palambla Photographed
Blue-and-white Swallow Notiochelidon cyanoleuca
Chestnut-collared Swallow Petrochelidon rufocollaris
Fasciated Wren Campylorhynchus fasciatus
House Wren Troglodytes aedon
Long-tailed Mockingbird Mimus longicaudatus Seen between Canchaque & Piura
Andean Solitaire Myadestes ralloides Possibly heard
Great Thrush Turdus fuscater
Rufous-browed Peppershrike Cyclarhis gujanensis Heard only
Masked Yellowthroat Geothlypis aequinoctialis
Slate-throated Redstart Myioborus miniatus Photographed
Three-banded Warbler Basileuterus trifasciatus Photographed Recorded
Rufous-chested Tanager Thlypopsis ornata
Hepatic Tanager Piranga flava
Blue-gray Tanager Thraupis episcopus
Fawn-breasted Tanager Pipraeidea melanonota Photographed
Thick-billed Euphonia Euphonia laniirostris
Piura Hemispingus Hemispingus piurae Photographed
Dull-colored Grassquit Tiaris obscura
Rusty Flowerpiercer Diglossa sittoides
Saffron Finch Sicalis flaveola Seen between Canchaque & Piura
Yellow-breasted Brush-Finch Atlapetes latinuchus
White-winged Brush-Finch Atlapetes leucopterus Photographed
Rufous-collared Sparrow Zonotrichia capensis
Black-cowled Saltator Saltator nigriceps Recorded
Golden-bellied Grosbeak Pheucticus chrysogaster
Scrub Blackbird Dives warszewiczi Recorded
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 06:43 PM )
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