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BIRDWATCHING TRIP CON INKATERRA

Enjoying one of the most extensive green places in the world.

By: Richard Amable

Reserva Amazónica –in the State of Madre de Dios; Peru

July 01 - July 05, 2007

This is a trip report for a field trip on the grounds of Reserva Amazonica on the banks of the river Madre de Dios. We walked the trails of the forest to small lakes and used the famous canopy walk to observe canopy birds at eye level. There were also boat trips to nearby islands..

Looking for birds to add to the count from one of the six canopy towers. Participants also searched the underbrush, bamboo thickets and aquatic habits.

Trip Participants

Rafael Noriega

Cesar Alfredo Vásquez

Víctor Zúñiga

Karina Dávila

Erick Arguedas

Percy Ccopa

Yuri Torres

Jesús Méndez

Día 01: Tarde temprano. Traslado en Bote por el Rió Madre de Dios desde Puerto Maldonado - Reserva Amazónica (Corriente abajo).

Día 02: (A) Mañana completa. Desde Reserva Amazónica – Canopy Inkaterra. Caminata a lo largo de trocha “A”. Bosques de floatplain dentro Reserva Ecológica Inkaterra.

(B) Tarde Completa. Desde Reserva Amazónica – Isla Rolin. (Rió Madre de Dios, caminata por orilla playa, Bosque de sucesión Ribereña (floated island).

Día 03: Día completa “Picnic lunch”. Desde Reserva Amazónica – Lago Sandoval – Fundo Concepción. (Zona Reservada Tambopata). (Rió Madre de Dios, Caminata por senderos, Lago de meandro, bosques de Aguajales, bosques de bambú, corriente perenne (Bosques de floatplain y height ground).

Día 04: Día Completo “Snack lunch”. Desde Reserva Amazónica – Puerto Maldonado – Pastora – CEDEGA. (Rió Madre de Dios, Carretera Interoceánica Km. 0 – Km. 15, Potreros, Aguajales (Bosques Secundarios y campos abiertos).Dia 05: Mañana Temprano. Reserva Amazónica, (Tocha B-1500 mts. Proyecto Leks de Manakin (Yuri Torres). Bosque de Floatplain (REI).

Little Tinamou – Crypturellus souri*
Undulated Tinamou - Crypturellus undulates*
Neotropic Cormorant - Phalacrocorax olivaceus
Anhinga - Anhinga anhinga
White Necked (Cocoi) Heron - Ardea cocoi
Snowy Egret - Egretta thula
Cattle Egret - Bubulcus ibis
Capped Heron - Philherodius pileatus
Rufescent Tiger Heron - Tigrisoma lineatum (D3-LM)
Boat-Billed Heron - Cochlearius cochlearius (P, LM)
Green Ibis - Mesembrinibis cayennesis
Horned Screamer - Anhima cornuta
Black Vulture - Coragyps atratus
Turkey Vulture - Cathartes aura
Greater Yellow-Headed Vulture - Cathartes melambrotus
Roadside Hawk - Buteo magnirostris
Slate-Colored Hawk - Leucopternis schistacea
Laughing Falcon - Herpetotheres cachinnans
Speckled Chachalaca - Ortalis guttata
Hoatzin - Opisthocomus hoazin
Gray-Necked Wood-Rail - Aramides cajanea
SunGrebe - Heliornis fulica (P, LM)
Sunbittern - Eurypyga helias (P, D4)
Wattled Jacana - Jacana jacana
Collared Plover - Charadrius collaris
Large-Billed Tern - Phaetusa simplex
Yellow-Billed Tern - Sterna superciliaris
Black Skimmer - Rynchops nigra
Pale-Vented Pigeon - Patagioena cayennensis
Plumbeous Pigeon - Patagioena plumbea
Ruddy Ground-Dove - Columbina talpacoti
Blue&Yellow Macaw - Ara ararauna (P, D3)
Chestnut-Fronted Macaw - Ara severus
Red-Bellied Macaw - Orthopsitta manilata
White-Eyed Parakeet - Aratinga leucophthalmus
Dusky-Headed Parakeet - Aratinga weddellii
Rock Parakeet - Pyrrhura rupicola
Dusky-Billed Parrotlet - Forpus sclateri (D2-A)
Cobalt-Winged Parakeet - Brotogeris cyanoptera
White-Bellied Parrot - Pionites leucogaster
Blue-Headed Parrot - Pionus menstruus
Yellow-Headed Parrot - Amazona ochrocephala
Mealy Parrot - Amazona farinosa
Smooth-Billed - Ani Crotophaga ani
Squirrel Cuckoo - Piaya cayana
Tawny-Bellied Screech-Owl - Megascops watsonii
Spectacled Owl - Pulsatrix perspicillata (P, D2-A)
Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl - Glaucidium brasilianum (D2-B)
Pauraque - Nyctidromus albicollis (D3)
Ladder-Tailed NightJar - Hydropsalis climacocerca (D2-B)
Short-Tailed Swift - Chaetura brachyura
Fork-Tailed Palm-Swift - Reinarda squamata
White-Bearded Hermit - Phaethornis hispidus
White-Necked Jacobin - Florisuga mellivora (D2-A)
White-Chinned Sapphire - Hylocharis cyanus
Black-Tailed Trogon - Trogon melanurus
White-Tailed Trogon - Trogon viridis (D3)
Blue-Crowned Trogon - Trogon curucui
Amazon KingFisher - Chloroceryle amazona
Green&Rufous KingFisher - Chloroceryle inda (P, D3)
Broad-Billed Motmot - Electron platyrhynchum*
White-Throated Jacamar - Brachygalba albogularis (P, D4-PA)
Purus Jacamar - Galbalcyrhynchus purusianus (P, D4-PA)
Striolated PuffBird - Nystalus striolatus*
Black-Fronted NunBird - Monasa nigrifrons
Swallow Winged Puffbird - Chelidoptera tenebrosa
Guilded Barbet - Capito auratus
Chestnut-Eared Aracari - Pteroglossus castanotis
Brown-Mandibled Aracari - Pteroglossus mariae
White-Throated (Cuvier´s) Toucan - Ramphastos cuvieris
Spot-Breasted WoodPecker - Chrysoptilus puntigula (DA-PA)
Chestnut WoodPecker - Celeus elegans
Golden-Green WoodPecker - Piculus chrysochlorus
Lineated WoodPecker - Dryocopus lineatus
Yellow-Tufted WoodPecker - Melanerpes cruentatus
Red-Necked WoodPecker - Campephilus rubricollis
Olivaceous WoodCreeper - Sittasomus griseicapillus
Long-Billed WoodCreeper - Nasica longirostris (P, D3)
Cinnamon-Throated WoodCreeper - Dendrexetastes rufigula
Buff-Throated WoodCreeper - Xiphorhynchus guttatus
Plain-Crowned Spinetail - Synallaxis gujanensis*
Point-Tailed PalmCreeper - Berlepschia rickeri (P,D3 y D4)
Streaked Xenops - Xenops rutilans
Fasciated Antshrike - Cymbilaimus lineatus*
Bluish-Slate Antshrike - Thamnomanes schistogynus
Long-winged Antwren - Myrmotherula longipennis
Striated Antbird - Drymophila devillei (P, D3)
Gray Antbird - Cercomacra cinerascens*
White-Browed Antbird - Myrmoborus leucophrys
Chestnut-Tailed Antbird - Myrmeciza hemimelaena
Plumbeous Antbird - Myrmeciza hyperythra
Short-Tailed Pygmy-Tyrant - Myiornis ecaudatus*
Yellow-Browed Tody-Flycatcher - Todirostrum chrysocrotaphum
Yellow-Margined Flycatcher - Tolmomyias assimilis
Vermilion Flycatcher - Pyrocephalus rubinus
Little Ground-Tyrant - Muscisaxicola fluviatilis
White-Eyed Attila - Attila bolivianus
Sirystes - Sirystes sibilator
Lesser Kiskadee - Pitangus lictor
Great Kiskadee - Pitangus sulphuratus
Social Flycatcher - Myiozetetes similis
Tropical Kingbird - Tyrannus melancholicus
Black-Capped Becard -Pachyramphus marginatus
Band-Tailed Manakin - Pipra fasciicauda (D3 y D5)
Screaming Piha - Lipaugus vociferans
Spangled Cotinga - Cotinga cayana (D2-A)
Amazonian UmbrellaBird - Cephalopterus ornatus (D2-B)
Purple-Throated FruitCrow - Querula purpurata
White-Winged Swallow - Tachycineta albiventer
Gray-Breasted Martin - Progne chalybea
Southern Rough-Winged Swallow - Stelgidopteryx ruficolli
Violaceous Jay - Cyanocorax violaceus
Thrush-Like Wren - Campylorhynchus turdinus
Moustached Wren - Thryothorus genibarbis
House Wren - Troglodytes aedon
Musician Wren - Cyphorhinus aradus*
Black-Capped Donacobius - Donacobius atricapillus
Black-Billed Thrush - Turdus ignobilis
Yellow-Browed Sparrow - Ammodramus aurifrons
House Sparrow – Passer domesticus
Double-Collared Seedeater - Sporophila caerulescens
Chesnut-Bellied Seedeater - Sporophila castaneiventris
Saffron Finch - Carduelis siemiradzkii
Blue-Black Grassquit - Volatinia jacarina
Red-Capped Cardinal - Paroaria gularis
Swallow-Tanager - Tersina viridis
Magpie Tanager - Cissopis leveriana
Guira Tanager - Hemithraupis guira (D2-A)
White-Shouldered Tanager - Tachyphonus luctuosus
Masked Crimson Tanager - Ramphocelus nigrogularis
Silver-Beaked Tanager - Ramphocelus carbo
White-Winged Shrike-Tanager - Lanio versicolor (D2-A)
Blue-Gray Tanager - Thraupis episcopus
Palm Tanager - Thraupis palmerum
Orange-Bellied Euphonia - Euphonia xanthogaster
Turquoise Tanager - Tangara mexicana
Green & Gold Tanager - Tangara schrankii
Black-Faced Dacnis - Dacnis lineata
Red-Eyed Vireo - Vireo olivaceus
Brown-Capped Vireo - Vireo leucophrys
Chesnut-Vented Conebill – Conirostrum speciosum
Russet-Backed Oropendola - Psarocolius angustifrons
Yellow-Rumped Cacique - Cacicus cela
Epaulet Oriole - Icterus cayanensis
Troupial - Icterus icterus
Giant CowBird - Scaphidura oryzivora
Red-breasted BlackBird - Sturnella militaris (D4)

Thanks to the people of Inkatera for this birding opportunity including: Victor Zulu, Percy Ccopy, Erick Arquedas, Alexander Montoya, Raul Lopez (CEDEGA).