Salkantay Trek Birds: Expert Level (1 Viewer)

Hi all, I recently finished the Salkantay Trek through the highlands and cloud rainforests of Peru. I got around 60 birds and have id'd (with some help) 40 to 50 of the easier ones. The ones I still have are flycatchers and female tanagers and other tricky to id birds. I have included the habitat and elevation information though it will not necessarily be completely accurate. Thanks for any help!

1) Maybe a Buteo? Taken in Cusco, 3400m http://i.imgur.com/pNFHOK4.jpg
2) Just before Highlands, around 3300m http://i.imgur.com/NqyasjK.jpg
3) Highlands, around 3500m http://i.imgur.com/RvjUCA8.jpg
4) 3500m, not too much in this pic http://i.imgur.com/gy9lV0m.jpg
5) 3500m, probably the worst pic of the bunch http://i.imgur.com/wEVpAbV.jpg
6) Maybe a Cincloides, but that's a tough group 3500m, http://i.imgur.com/ukb7j5W.jpg
7) Id'd as White-winged Cincloides, but confirmation would be excellent. http://i.imgur.com/dGlQBv7.jpg
8) Another very tough one, 2500m http://i.imgur.com/QDM1sEP.jpg
9) Finally into rainforest, 2300m http://i.imgur.com/3oeESl1.jpg
10) Another probably impossible one, rainforest, 3000m http://i.imgur.com/bjZferG.jpg
11) Some gulls in Lima, Inca Gull looks close, but they aren't really found on the coast so I'm a little confused
http://i.imgur.com/hUqOn23.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/jZZZjIa.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/01Xergx.jpg

Thanks for any help you can offer, and good luck

Sitting w/o books right now: I would look at the Sierra-finches for #5 and brush-finches for #9

Niels

#9 looks very close to both the slaty tanager and Cusco Brush Finch based on my book, any suggestions on how to differentiate?

11: the hooded ones are andean gulls, in pic 1 there's also a young (2cy) belcher's gull, and the large dark mantled gull sleeping behind it should be an adult kelp gull.

Compare http://www.birdforum.net/opus/Slaty_Tanager (no photo of the brushfinch in opus so far). However, I think the image of the tanager shows that it should have a more substantial bill than shown in your photo. That fits the difference between the tanager and the slaty brush-finch (close relative of CBF) in the only book having anything close to these species that I have, Ridgley and Tudor.

Niels

Something in #8 reminds me of a nightingale-thrush, but I am not completely confident in that.

Niels