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Peru harbors an extraordinary diversity of bird species, and new
species are discovered every year in the cloud forests and
Amazon jungle, inaccessible mountain ranges and inter-Andean
valleys. To date, ornithologists have registered 1,730 species
(nearly 20% of the world's total), of which 300 are found
all over the country. Peru also posts world records in species
per area (650 in Tambopata) and the record for the largest
number of species sighted in a single day (361 around the
biological station of Cocha Cashu, Manu).
Birdwatchers will find Peru to be a veritable paradise of
bird species which are limited to unique and fragile habitats,
migratory species from distant parts of the planet, species
which have disappeared in other parts of the world and which
abound in unexplored nooks of Peru, as well as teeming flocks
of birds which mark the life-cycle of life in the sea, the
jungle and Andean lakes.
Click on the following links for birdwatching
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