Great Grebes, Tinajones, Peru June 2008.
15th June.We left Chiclayo for Chaparri after lunch stopping at a lake near Tinajones where a pair of Great Grebes were close inshore. Our stay at Chaparri was just fabulous - nice accommodation, great food and plenty of time to experince the birds of this arid habitat.
In the dry forest and desert scrub we found Snowy-throated Kingbirds, Tumbes Tyrant, Sooty-crowned Flycatcher, Black-and-White Becard, Elegant Crescentchest, Tumbes Hummingbird, Tumbes Sparrow and a few White-winged Guans.
Pacific Parrotlet, Chaparri, N Peru 2008.
White-tailed Jay.
Chaparri is a conservation project and as well as a guan reintroduction scheme some mammals are penned prior to release such as these Spectacled Bears. They also occur in the wild here as do Pumas.By night we located Scrub Nightjars, Common Potoo and Peruvian Screech-Owl.
