Northern Peru Birding: Morro de Calzada Morro de Calzada is a small reserve (Morro is spanish for Hill) centered on an isolated hill above the flat plains around Rioja and Moyobamba. It is a popular weekend destination for locals where visitors hike a well-maintained trail that reaches the top of the Morro (Spanish for hill). […]
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The results are in! The winner of the world’s first birding competition – The Birding Rally Challenge – was the LSU-Louisiana Tigrisomas Team from USA, with 493 birds observed. It was followed by UK’s Forest Falcons (490 species), USA’s eBirders Cornell (413 species) and Brazil’s Ararajuba Team (396 birds). The species recorded by each team
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Caught on Camera Birdwatching has always been around. By some accounts, it had been in the last 20 years that birdwatching or Birding exploded in popularity. In fact, today, birding, is the second fastest growing hobby in North America, bested only by gardening. A whole new language has emerged along with it. Those in the know
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After Colombia, Peru is the country with the world’s second largest bird list. The quintessential question is, how so many species of birds can be found within a country that is not the largest in Latin America. The answer lays in the country’s diversity of habitats. The more habitat types the more species of birds
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