Peru’s Manu Region Group Tour
The focus of this tour will be the Manu Biosphere Reserve, a four and a half million acre area that preserves an entire ecosystem, its flora and fauna, along with three Indian tribes that have had little, or no contact, with the outside world. Manu extends from the western Amazonian lowlands to the puna above treeline. On this tour you will stay at two special lodges at different elevations, allowing you to experience several Manu ecosystem, from the lowland rain forest, to the foothills, to the cloud forest, to the puna highlands.
We will start with briding in the rich areas around Lima. The habitats will be freshwater marshes, sandy beach, arid lowland scrub, coastal rocky shore and sea coast. The possibilities include Humboldt Penguin, Great Grebe, Peruvian Pelican, Blue-footed Booby, Peruvian Booby, Guanay Cormorant, Red-legged Cormorant, Least Bittern, White-cheeked Pintail, Puna Teal, Southern Caracara, Blackish Oystercatcher, American Oystercatcher, Peruvian Thick-knee, Band-tailed Gull, Gray Gull, KeIp Gull, Gray-headed Gull, South American Tern, Peruvian Tern, Inca Tern, West Peruvian Dove, Croaking Ground-Dove, Dark-billed Cuckoo, Burrowing Owl, Lesser Nighthawk, Amazilia Hummingbird, Coastal Miner, Peruvian Seaside Cinclodes, Tumbes Beardless-Tyrannulet, Rufescent Flycatcher, Vermilion Flycatcher, Dark faced ground-Tyrant, Short-tailed Field-Tyrant, Chestnut-collared Swallow, Yellowish Pipit, Long-tailed Mockingbird, Black-lored Yellowthroat, Slender-billed Finch, Collared Warbling-Finch, Drab Seedeater, Parrot-billed Seedeater, Chestnut-throated Seedeater, Grassland Yellow-Finch, Yellow-hooded Blackbird, Peruvian Meadowlark, Scrub Blackbird.
Following a visit to the Andean lakes near Cusco we will head across the Andes. Our first stop will be the Cock-of-the-Rock Lodge in the Manu cloudforest. Along with the Andean Cock-of-the-Rock, mixed-species flocks of colorful fruit-eating tanagers and other exotic birds such as the Golden-headed Quetzal and the Amazonian Umbrellabird may also be seen. Troops of muscular-limbed Woolly Monkeys and comical Brown Capuchin Monkeys forage through the reserve. Rare sightings of the endangered Spectacled Bear, South America’s only species of bear, have been recorded near the lodge.
We will then travel down the slope of the Andes to the lowland tropical rainforest and the Amazonia Lodge. From the lodge veranda you can see Rufous-crested Coquette, Amethyst Woodstar and Wire-crested Thorntail. The list for the lodge has 572 species of birds including Black-capped Tinamou, Blackish Rail, Hoatzin, Buckley’s Forest Falcon, Wattled Guan, Military, Blue-headed and Scarlet Macaw, Rufous-vented Ground-Cuckoo, White-bearded Hermit, Black-eared Fairy, Golden-tailed Saphire, Blue-tailed Emerald, Bluish-fronted Jacamar, Fine-barred Piculet, Scarlet-hooded Barbet, Cabani’s Spinetail, Bamboo Antshrike, Manu Antbird, Amazonian Antpitta, Rusty-belted Tapaculo, Black-spotted Bare-eye, Ornate Flycatcher, Two-banded Warbler, Fire-capped Manakin, Plum-throated Cotinga, Masked-crimson Tanager, and Yellow-bellied Dacnis. There are also possibilities for Mottled Owl, Black-banded Owl, Tawny-bellied Screech-owl, Great, Long-tailed and Common Potoo.
June 15-26, 2012 / $3,995 per person plus airfare
Your leader on these special tours will be our Senior Guide, Rafael Campos. Former Assistant Curator for the University of Costa Rica and Field Assistant to Gary Stiles (author of A Guide to the Birds of Costa Rica), Rafa is recognized as one of Costa Rica’s finest naturalists. A Caligo Ventures tour leader for more than two decades, his Central American experience includes studies on birds, bats, and primates as well as a number of botanical surveys.
Tour Cost based on double occupancy and a minimum of ten participants. Includes all accommodations, tax, service, meals, air, boat and ground transportation within Peru, tours, and the services of a bilingual local guide, plus your birding guide
All Caligo Ventures Tours and other programs are subject to our Standard Terms and Conditions. Please review them prior to any purchase.
All Caligo Ventures Tours and other programs are subject to our Standard Terms and Conditions. Please review them prior to any purchase.
