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Morning Birding Around Puerto Maldonado and the Cusco Road
An early morning session around Puerto Maldonado and on the road to Cusco is expected to add many new species in a few hours: seedeaters, Red-breasted Blackbird and White-tailed Kite, with White-throated Jacamar, Black-banded Crake, Grassland Sparrow, Gray-breasted Crake, Black-faced Tanager, Barred Antshrike, Southern Crested Caracara, Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture, Small-billed Tinamou, Rusty-margined and Sulphury Flycatchers and common Point-tailed Palmcreeper.
Read MoreNight Birding at Manu Wildlife Center
Night birding may produce Long-tailed, Great and Common Potoos, Amazonian Pygmy Owl, Spectacled Owl, Ocellated Poorwill and Silky-tailed Nightjar.
Read MoreManu Wildlife Center Large Mammal Lick Visit
The forest's large mammal lick attracts Tapirs and Peccaries and perhaps even Jaguar, along with Guans, Curassows, Chachalacas, Rose-fronted and Rock Parakeets and Dusky-billed Parrotlets.
Read MoreManu Wildlife Center Oxbow Lake Birding
Visits to the oxbow lakes work the lakeside for Hoatzin, Sungrebe, Agami Heron, Black-billed Seed-finch, Silvered and Band-tailed Antbirds, Amazonian Streaked Antwren, Rufous-sided and Gray-breasted Crakes, with the chance of seeing one of the two Giant Otter families living in the area.
Read MoreManu Wildlife Center Canopy Tower Birding
A canopy tower reached by a spiral metal stairway opens the canopy for flocks including Lineated Woodcreeper, Sclater's Antwren, Chestnut-winged Foliage-gleaner, Chestnut-winged Hookbill, Yellow-shouldered Grosbeak and a multitude of tanagers, dacnis and honeycreepers.
Read MoreBonanza Tapir Lick Visit
Near the lodge is one of the best tapir licks, with the operator citing an 80% guarantee of seeing the large, elusive beast. The visit is a patient stakeout for the Lowland Tapir coming to the lick.
Read MoreBonanza Canopy Tower Birding
A canopy observation tower reached by a stairway is used for canopy flocks including Curl-crested Aracari, White-throated Toucan, Chestnut-eared and Ivory-billed Aracaris, Channel-billed Toucan, Plum-throated Cotinga, Bare-necked Fruitcrow, Yellow-tufted, Rufous-headed and Crimson-crested Woodpeckers, Lemon-throated Barbet and Striolated Puffbird, with another opportunity for bird-of-prey observation.
Read MoreEarly Morning Birding Near Amazonia Lodge
The morning begins with birding near Amazonia Lodge in search of species possibly missed in the previous days, a second chance before leaving the foothills.
Read MoreNight Birding at Amazonia Lodge
Night birding around Amazonia Lodge targets Mottled Owl, Black-banded Owl, Tawny-bellied Screech-owl, and Great, Long-tailed and Common Potoos.
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