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madre de dios
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Variegated tinamou
Probably the prettiest tinamou I've seen! Luckily, it was one of these occasions where it walked slowly away from me, instead of exploding practically from underfoot like a snipe and disappearing in the distance. It walked maybe 10 meters downhill and then appeared to be quite curious, popping...- Thibaud
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- crypturellus variegatus madre de dios peru tinamou
- Comments: 5
- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
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Flammulated Pygmy-Tyrant
As ebird says, this little bamboo specialist actually looks duller than its name suggests haha. Still, I was pleased to finally run into one!- Thibaud
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- hemitriccus flammulatus los amigos madre de dios peru
- Comments: 4
- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
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Chestnut-shouldered antwren
A tricky canopy antwren, much more easily heard than seen!- Thibaud
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- antwren euchrepomis humeralis madre de dios peru thamnophilidae
- Comments: 4
- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
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White-browed Hawk
I was quite lucky with this rare hawk (which was a lifer). I heard it calling persistently and finally spotted it high up in a massive castaña tree. But I was with a bunch of students, so I only got a few shots before it took off. The next day I returned alone and played a recording, and soon...- Thibaud
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- leucopternis kuhli madre de dios peru white-browed hawk
- Comments: 8
- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
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Humaita Antbird
A notoriously skulking antbird, in Peru restricted to palm swamps in the southeast, I was lucky that the male was singing or I never would have even thought to look for it in the minuscule wetland (which had at most 5 palm trees) right behind the house where we were staying.- Thibaud
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- humaita antbird madre de dios myrmelastes humaythae peru
- Comments: 5
- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
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White-lined antbird (male)
A lovely antbird found in bamboo thickets in southeastern Peru, I finally encountered this very responsive male who posed very nicely for me!- Thibaud
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- antbird madre de dios myrmoborus lophotes peru
- Comments: 5
- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
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Fork Tailed Woodnymph
Sleeping- mtrevillion
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- chuncho lodge fork-tailed woodnymph - thalurania furcata humming bird madre de dios peru tambopata woodnymph
- Comments: 5
- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
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Bluish-slate antshrike
A member of a flock that briefly passed through, this female posed just long enough to get a shot and then she was on her way.- Thibaud
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- antshrike female madre de dios peru thamnomanes schistogynus
- Comments: 4
- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
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Epaulet Oriole
A lovely lowland oriole, spotted from a crumbling, abandoned canopy tower near Puerto Maldonado!- Thibaud
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- icterus cayanensis madre de dios oriole peru
- Comments: 7
- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
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Long-crested Pygmy-Tyrant
A cute little bamboo specialist, we found a pair that was building its nest, and got to watch them at length.- Thibaud
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- lophotriccus eulophotes madre de dios peru
- Comments: 5
- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
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Rufous Twistwing
A tricky bamboo specialist, we spent about two hours crawling around a sprawling Guadua thicket and only getting glimpses until we stumbled upon a path cutting through it, and found the twistwing hunting maybe 5 meters off said path, in an area with a much more open understorey, where it gave us...- Thibaud
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- bamboo cnipodectes superrufus madre de dios peru twistwing
- Comments: 4
- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
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Purus jacama
Happy to get a slightly blurry record shot!- nick scarle
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- jacamar madre de dios peru purus
- Comments: 4
- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
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Sunbitterns
We watched for ages hoping for a flash of open wings but no luck!- nick scarle
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- madre de dios peru sun bittern
- Comments: 3
- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
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Donocobius menage a trois
Not duetting but trio-ing!- nick scarle
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- donacobius madre de dios peru
- Comments: 3
- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
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Horned screamer
Just plain wierd!- nick scarle
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- horned screamer madre de dios peru
- Comments: 3
- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
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Red-and-Green Macaws
Beautifully framed against the palms!- nick scarle
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- madre de dios peru red-and-green macaws
- Comments: 3
- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
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Short-crested Flycatcher
Probably the commonest flycatcher in the Amazon- nick scarle
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- madre de dios peru short-crested flycatcher
- Comments: 3
- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
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Clay-lick again!
Another shot of Tambo Blanquillo clay-lick. These are mostly Mealy Parrots with a few Blue-headed and one Chestnut-fronted Macaw- nick scarle
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- clay- lick macaw madre de dios parrot peru tambo blanquillo
- Comments: 2
- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
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Clay-lick
Tambo Blanquillo clay-lick on the Madre de Dios River. Here are Blue-headed Parrots, Orange-cheeked Parrots, Yellow-crowned Parrots and Tui Parakeets. We saw 12 species altogether!- nick scarle
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- clay- lick madre de dios parakeet parrot peru tambo blanquillo
- Comments: 1
- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
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Capped Heron
Capped Heron- nick scarle
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- capped heron madre de dios peru pilherodius pileatus
- Comments: 4
- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
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Spix's Guan
Spix's Guan- nick scarle
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- madre de dios penelope jacquacu peru spix\'s guan
- Comments: 2
- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
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Undulated Tinamou
Normally shy but these birds are now habituated to people and wander around the lodge grounds quite freely.- nick scarle
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- madre de dios peru tinamou undulated
- Comments: 3
- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
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Bare-necked Fruitcrow
Bare-necked Fruitcrow, against a fabulous blue sky!- nick scarle
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- gymnoderus foetidus madre de dios peru
- Comments: 3
- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
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Sand-coloured Nighthawks
Roosting on the river bank shingle.- nick scarle
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- chordeiles rupestris madre de dios peru sand-coloured nighthawk
- Comments: 2
- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
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Yellow-browed Tody-Flycatcher
Yellow-browed Tody-Flycatcher (Todirostrum chrysocrotaphum subsp. neglectum)- Stanley Jones
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- chuncho lodge madre de dios peru todirostrum chrysocrotaphum tody-flycatcher yellow-browed
- Comments: 14
- Category: Central & South America & Mexico