It's in there somewhere (1 Viewer)

herring99

Well-known member

• Oct 21, 2003

• #1

Well its the final UFO from the honeymoon piccies. I can't find me notes on it at present to give you more help, except that it was seen from the ruins at Machu Picchu in Peru and was largish warbler size with a paler underbelly.

Herring

PS its on the far right of the picture.

 

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Jane Turner

Well-known member

• Apr 28, 2004

• #2

*bump* - there must be enough here to identify if you are familiar with the birds of the region!

 

Charles Harper

Régisseur

• Apr 28, 2004

• #3

Can see neither bill nor tail. Is it a spinetail sp.?

 

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Steve Lister

Senior Birder, ex County Recorder, Garden Moths.

• Apr 28, 2004

• #4

Charles Harper said:

Can see neither bill nor tail. Is it a spinetail sp.?

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Good call Charles. Could be Azara's Spinetail, which I remember seeing in the superb gardens of the Pueblo Hotel, below the ruins.

Machu Picchu must be one of the best tourist sites for birding anywhere in the world. One of my favourite areas, and I must go back to see Inca Wren, which has eluded me twice.

Steve

 

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edenwatcher

Well-known member

• Apr 28, 2004

• #5

Steve Lister said:

Good call Charles. Could be Azara's Spinetail, which I remember seeing in the superb gardens of the Pueblo Hotel, below the ruins.

Machu Picchu must be one of the best tourist sites for birding anywhere in the world. One of my favourite areas, and I must go back to see Inca Wren, which has elided me twice.

Steve

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I'd go with Azara's spinetail too.
Agree about the gardens of the Pueblo - great birding. We used shameless bluffing to get in - swan in as if you own the place!
Fortunate enough to see Inca wren a few miles from MP (recorded a pair duetting then brought them out by playing back their own song, all with a little dictaphone).

Rob

 

Rasmus Boegh

BF member

• Apr 28, 2004

• #6

Yep. others got the id right. Remember to specify (on your own list - if you keep one of those). It is likely to be split into several species in the future... but guess the funds for doing it officially (in Cotinga, The Auk or similar) are lacking. Though I'd have to say that the trail going up to the ruins from Agua Caliente beats the birding around the Pueblo Hotel. But both are amazing, it's rather like "great, greater, greatest"!

 

Rasmus Boegh

BF member

• Apr 29, 2004

• #7

Couldn't help it, had to add a final comment!

If you get a chance of being somewhere where Azaras Spinetail is found, try "pishing". You know, the "pss, pss, pss" sound (alarm). Sometimes they go crazy over it, and allow you views that would otherwise be impossible without a tape of the actual song.

 

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Jane Turner

Well-known member

• Apr 29, 2004

• #8

Thanks for sorting this one chaps - I was cluless!

 

herring99

Well-known member

• May 1, 2004

• #9

:eek!: Wow another dead one cleared up....... is this a conspiracy or something? Again thanks for the help, did't think I'd get an id on this one.

Herring