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  1. Peruvian Sheartail

    Peruvian Sheartail

  2. Maranon Tit-Tyrant

    Maranon Tit-Tyrant

  3. Long-tailed Mockingbird

    Long-tailed Mockingbird

  4. Croaking Ground-Dove

    Croaking Ground-Dove

  5. West Peruvian Dove

    West Peruvian Dove

  6. Purple-collared Woodstar

    Purple-collared Woodstar

    female
  7. _13A8133 White-Browed Antbird (female), Pantiacolla Lodge, 9th October 2016-8133.jpg

    _13A8133 White-Browed Antbird (female), Pantiacolla Lodge, 9th October 2016-8133.jpg

    White-Browed Antbird (female)
  8. Pacific Parrotlet

    Pacific Parrotlet

  9. Croaking Ground-Dove

    Croaking Ground-Dove

  10. Cinnamon-breasted Tody-Tyrant

    Cinnamon-breasted Tody-Tyrant

    This little sprite is only known from a few ridges on either side of the Peru-Ecuador border, and Fundo Alto Nieva is probably the best place to see it in Peru. After a couple encounters in dense undergrowth, we lucked out with this very friendly individual who hung out right by the path!
  11. Hooded tinamou

    Hooded tinamou

    We were watching an antpitta at the feeder, when we suddenly noticed this tinamou had crept in and was watching the scene just a few meters behind! I was able to get a few shots of this tricky species before he wandered off into the forest.
  12. Tawny-crowned Greenlet

    Tawny-crowned Greenlet

    A small forest sprite that is often heard, but bloody hard to get a photo of!
  13. Rufous-headed Pygmy Tyrant

    Rufous-headed Pygmy Tyrant

    A lovely little cloud-forest flycatcher, more easily seen than heard, this one was kind enough to pop up right in front of me and while we froze, looking at each other, I had just enough time to get that one shot before the crossed the path and vanished in the bamboo thickets!
  14. White-bellied Dacnis

    White-bellied Dacnis

    A rare dacnis, this was actually the first ebird record for Pasco department!
  15. Green Manakin

    Green Manakin

    A nice little manakin, fairly common in the lowland forests of Pasco, though since the males lack a distinctive plumage, it always needs to be IDed with care.
  16. Round-tailed Manakin

    Round-tailed Manakin

    The males of this species are easily identified thanks to the combination of their red head and white eyes. The round tail that gives them their name is actually quite obvious at certain angles and can be useful in identifying the typically drab females.
  17. Inambari Woodcreeper

    Inambari Woodcreeper

    A discrete relative of the far more common Montane Woodcreeper (and told from it by its unstreaked crown, nape, and back), this was the only time I saw it during my year in Peru.
  18. Pale-rumped Swift

    Pale-rumped Swift

    The less common relative of the Gray-rumped Swift I uploaded the other day. It's one of these typical tricky species pairs (like Sparrowhawk/Goshawk) where, if you're wondering which one it is, it's probably the commoner one. In this case, I'd occasionally see Gray-rumped Swifts whose rumps did...
  19. Gray-rumped Swift

    Gray-rumped Swift

    A common swift in lowland Peru, I was lucky to get eye level shots as they came down to hawk over the nearby creek one evening.
  20. Mishana Tyrannulet

    Mishana Tyrannulet

    Peru's other endemic Zimmerius, with a highly localized and strangely disjunct distribution, though not that hard to find when you're in the right place, and even better if a local takes you (thanks Warren!).
  21. Peruvian Tyrannulet

    Peruvian Tyrannulet

    A common and very vocal Peruvian endemic, recently split off from the similar Golden-faced Tyrannulet found further north.
  22. Gray antbird

    Gray antbird

    While the other Peruvian Cercomacra species are understorey skulkers, this one is a canopy bird! It's easily located thanks to its loud song, but it can be hard to actually see as it prefers to stay within vine tangles.
  23. Peruvian wren

    Peruvian wren

    A Peruvian member of the charismatic Andean genus Cinnycerthia, which share the interesting characteristic that individuals have a varying amount of white on the head ranging from none, to a simple eyering, to blotches that can cover most of the head. This is apparently in relation to breeding...
  24. Opal-crowned tanager

    Opal-crowned tanager

    A lovely tanager, of which I'd only caught fleeting glimpses farther south, but I had the good luck of running into a very cooperative group at the famous terrace of El Mono y la Gata, near Tarapoto.
  25. Paramo pipit

    Paramo pipit

    Usually fairly skittish birds, this one was singing his heart out on the top of a bush and let me get reasonably close, allowing to finally get decent photos of the species.
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