peru digiscope pictures

The Peru bird photographs have been taken between October 2003 and January 2004. Peru has almost 1800 bird species, almost one fifth of the World's total. This biodiversity results from the extreme variation in environments found in the country. These range from the humid lowland rainforest of the Amazon Basin, to the puna of the High Andes and one of the world's driest deserts along the Pacific Coast.
We travelled to the rainforest in the Amazon basin at Puerto Maldonado and River Piedras, cloudforest in the mountains around Machu Picchu, Lake Titicaca at 12,000 on the alti plano, the arid highlands around Arequipa and the Colca Canyon, the Nasca Desert and the Pacific coastline at Pisco & Paracas.

The Peru bird photographs have been taken between October 2003 and January 2004. Peru has almost 1800 bird species, almost one fifth of the World's total. This biodiversity results from the extreme variation in environments found in the country. These range from the humid lowland rainforest of the Amazon Basin, to the puna of the High Andes and one of the world's driest deserts along the Pacific Coast. We travelled to the rainforest in the Amazon basin at Puerto Maldonado and River Piedras, cloudforest in the mountains around Machu Picchu, Lake Titicaca at 12,000 on the alti plano, the arid highlands around Arequipa and the Colca Canyon, the Nasca Desert and the Pacific coastline at Pisco & Paracas.

For further reading we recommend the excellent "Field Guide to the Birds of Peru" by James F. Clements & Noam Shamy, published by Ibis 2001.

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