Friday, February 21, 2020

Birds I've seen in Peru


Sacred Valley

Andean Flicker (Chinchero)
Green-tailed Trainbearer F (Ollaytantambo)
White-bellied Hummingbird (Aguascalientes)
As you can imagine, unknown
(it's on the branch between the bottom two wires).
Maybe Double-toothed Kite (not counted)
Unknown
which annoys me to no end because it seems so identifiable!
Blue-grey Tanager (Aguascalientes)
Blue-and-white Swallow
Unknown
Black Phoebe
Dusky-green Oropendola
Nontropical Cormorant 
Social Flycatcher
Tropical Kingbird (Aguascalientes)

Cusco

Bar-Winged Cinclodes
Chiguano Thrush
A terrible photo of a Ruddy Quial-dove
Band-tailed Seedeater
 Amantani Island (Lake Titicaca)

Spot-wing Pigeon
Giant Hummingbird
Andean Lapwing
LBB, unidentified so far
Update:  F Mourning Sierra-finch
White-winged Cinclodes
Cinereous Conebill
unidentified Thrush
Peruvian Sierra-Finch
Domestic Goose
Titicaca Grebe
Floating Island of Uros (Lake Titicaca)

Puno Ibis
Puno (Lake Titicaca)

White-tipped Dove
Plumbeous Rail!
Unidentified Flamingos (there are three species here that
are identical - these may be Andean, or Jame's, or Chilean?)
Ruddy Duck
Black-neck Stilt
I didn't even know that bird in the back was in the photo,
then I accidentally erased it off my camera and
I can't enlarge on this computer, so unidentified for now
Update;  Greater Yellowlegs
White-tufted Grebe


Eared Dove
Parque Salinas y Agua Blanca (between Arequipa and Chivay)

Crested Duck
Yellow Billed Teal, aka Andean Teal
Giant Coot!!
Andean Gull on the left
Puna Teal on the right
 Condor Cross

Mourning Sierra-finch
Andean Condor (finally)
Araquipa 

Rufous-collared Sparrow
Great Thrush
"My God.  A Pigeon.  That's the last bird on my list
(for Paul)

Nasca
Peruvian Thick-knee
Unidentified (so far)
Burrowing Owl

Huacachina

Common Moorhen
Black-capped Night-heron
Unidentified (so far)
Update:  Female Vermillion with juvenile
West Peruvian Dove
The ubiquitous House Sparrow
Paracas
Humboldt Penguins - Ballestas Islands
American Oystercatcher - Paracas National Reserve
Belcher's Gull - Paracas National Reserve
Elegant Terns and a few Royal Terns - Paracas National Reserve
Vermillion Flycatcher - Paracas
Peruvian Booby - Paracas National Reserve
Blackish Oystercatcher - Paracas National Reserve
Chilean Flamingo - Paracas National Reserve
Turkey Vulture - Paracas National Reserve
Peruvian Pelican, Neotropical Cormorants - Paracas National Reserve
White-cheeked Pintail - Paracas National Reserve
Inka Tern - Paracas National Reserve
Gray-Hooded Gulls and Franklin Gulls - Paracas
Way back there, Guanay Cormorant - Paracas National Reserve
Snowy Egret
You're going to have to trust me on this one:
Black Skimmer

Lima

Black Vulture (at the graveyard!)
Amazilia Hummingbird - Barranco
Unidentified (so far) - Barranco
Long-tailed Mockingbird - Malecon Barranco
Saffron Finch - Lima -Larco Museum
Scrub Blackbird - Lima - Larco Museum