Northern Peru with Lifer Nature Tours - October, 2025

Wendy and I joined five friends for our first trip to Peru. We covered a wide range of habitats from the Andes to the Pacific coast, led by Juan Diego Vargas and Carlos Altamirano, recording over 450 species of birds.


Cinereous Tinamou

Little Tinamou

Rufous-breasted Wood-Quail

White-winged Guan

Black-crowned Night-heron

Variable Hawk

Plumbeous Rail

Spotted Rail

Blackish Oystercatcher

Black-necked Stilt ("black-necked form")

Black-necked Stilt ("white-backed form")

Kelp Gull

Gray Gull

Gray-hooded Gull

West Peruvian Dove

Striped Cuckoo

Burrowing Owl

Long-whiskered Owlet

Peruvian Pygmy-owl

Rufous-breasted Hermit

Reddish Hermit

Black-throated Hermit

Gray-chinned Hermit

Great-billed Hermit

Gray-breasted Sabrewing

White-necked Jacobin

Black-throated Mango

Fork-tailed Woodnymph

Blue-tailed Emerald

Sparkling Violetear

Wire-crested Thorntail

Rufous-crested Coquette

Golden-tailed Sapphire

Spot-throated Hummingbird

Andean Emerald

Tumbes Hummingbird

Green-fronted Lancebill

Speckled Hummingbird

Violet-fronted Brilliant

Chestnut-breasted Coronet

Collared Inca

Bronzy Inca

Long-tailed Sylph

Amethyst-throated Sunangel

Emerald-bellied Puffleg

Greenish Puffleg

Peruvian Racket-tail

Rufous-capped Thornbill

White-bellied Woodstar

Amethyst Woodstar

Little Woodstar

Amazilia Hummingbird

Purple-collared Woodstar

Peruvian Sheartail

Marvelous Spatuletail (male)

Marvelous Spatuletail (female)

Bluish-fronted Jacamar

Speckle-chested Piculet

Ecuadorian Piculet

Black-necked Woodpecker

Streak-headed Woodcreeper

Northern Slaty-antshrike

Maranon Antshrike

Chapman's Antshrike

Collared Antshrike

Rusty-backed Antwren

Rusty-tinged Antpitta

Ochre-fronted Antpitta

Black-capped Tyrannulet

Gray-and-white Tyrannulet

Many-colored Rush-tyrant

Pearly-vented Tody-tyrant

Tumbes Chat-tyrant

Baird's Flycatcher

Brown-crested Flycatcher

Pale-edged Flycatcher

Barred Becard

Rufous-browed Peppershrike

White-tailed Jay

Superciliated Wren

Bar-winged Wood-wren

Long-tailed Mockingbird

Maranon Gnatcatcher

Maranon Thrush

Hauxwell's Thrush

Black-billed Thrush

Black-bellied Tanager

Silver-beaked Tanager

Buff-bellied Tanager

White-lined Tanager

Blue-gray Tanager

Silvery Tanager

Saffron-crowned Tanager

Blue-necked Tanager

Rusty Flowerpiercer

Tumbes Sparrow

Black-capped Sparrow

Golden Grosbeak

Streaked Saltator

Tropical Parula

Yellow-rumped Cacique

Purple-throated Euphonia


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