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MANU WILDLIFE CENTER, PERU
One-site tour to the most species-rich rainforest on Earth. Macaw lick, canopy tower, tapir wallow, and wonderful trails through Amazonian lowlands of Manu Biosphere Reserve.
$4150 (2008 fee). 13 days
From Lima. Limit: 8 (2008); 14 (2009)
Good accommodations based at one comfortable lodge (private bathrooms with hot-water showers), easy to moderate terrain (mostly level); charter flight in and out from Cusco (11,000 feet), covered motorized dugout on Rio Madre de Dios; warm and humid climate. Our staff travel agents can book your air travel for this tour. Contact us at (800) 728-4953 for more information. May be combined with MACHU PICCHU & ABRA MALAGA, PERU.
See our triplist
for 2007
or 2006 or 2005
(second tour).
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Macaws at nest
by participant Paul Thomas |
Southeastern Peru is generally acknowledged as the
most species-rich birding region on Earth. This tour is designed
to complement our MOUNTAINS OF MANU tour coverage by immersing us in the
rich lowland rainforest of the Manu Biosphere Reserve. We have selected
Manu Wildlife Center as our one-site base for its comfort level, its ease
of access, and its central location. With a wonderful network of
trails and covered 40-foot boats for river transport, the lodge offers
us access to virtually all critical microhabitats within upper Amazonia
and hence to virtually all species regularly occurring in lowland Manu.
Not only are we close to the famous Blanquillo ccollpa, where hundreds
of parrots and large macaws gather almost daily to ingest the mineral-rich
clay, but a trail from the lodge buildings takes us to a forest-interior
mineral lick that attracts more secretive forest birds and mammals, including
Brazilian Tapirs, to the same kinds of minerals. Another trail takes
us to a well-constructed canopy platform that offers eye-to-eye looks
at numerous canopy specialties, from various toucans and cotingas to Pavonine
Quetzal and mixed-species flocks that move right through “our tree.”
We’ll bird cocha lakes, river edge, varzea and some enormous stands
of bamboo, seasonally flooded transition forest, and some wonderful terra
firme forest.
The official lodge bird list now stands at a whopping 566 species, among them an incredible number of classic Amazonian species and many regional specialties, including Orinoco Goose, Razor-billed Curassow, Starred Wood-Quail, Pale-winged Trumpeter, Blue-headed Macaw, Amazonian Parrotlet (the “parrot without a name”), Amazonian Pygmy-Owl, Long-tailed Potoo, Ocellated Poorwill, Silky-tailed Nightjar, Purus and Bluish-fronted jacamars, Scarlet-hooded Barbet, Rufous-headed Woodpecker, Peruvian Recurvebill, Sclater’s Antwren, White-lined, Manu, Goeldi’s, and White-throated antbirds, Rufous-fronted Antthrush, the little-known Elusive Antpitta, Ash-throated Gnateater, Black-faced Cotinga, Band-tailed Manakin, White-cheeked Tody-Tyrant, Dull-capped Attila, Red-billed Pied-Tanager, White-winged Shrike-Tanager, and Yellow-shouldered Grosbeak. And that’s not to mention the long list of mammals, from Giant Otter to 10-plus species of primates and even the elusive Jaguar. We won’t see all of these, but we can assure you of a trip full of wonderful views of hundreds of wonderful critters in a wilderness setting of unexcelled proportions.
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