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Peru, 2004:
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Rainbow Hooded Siskin

Set 1: Cuzco and Machu Picchu, in the Andes Mountains

camera: Hooded Siskin, common in the highlands.

camera Streaked xenops | camera Golden-billed saltator

camera Mystery hummingbird | camera Green & white hummingbird

camera Black phoebe, wags its tail up and down.

camera Rufous-collared sparrow, widespread in Latin America.

camera Yellow bird, possibly a tanager.

Surco & Pantanos de Villa, southeast of Lima

camera Bananaquit, in Surco

camera Gulls at Pantanos de Villa | camera Neotropical Cormorant

camera Snowy Egret | camera Great Egret



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SOURCES:

100 Aves de Lima y Alrededores, Alejandro Tabini and Juan Pedro Paz-Solda (Lima: Wust Ediciones, 2007)

Birds of Machu Picchu: 86 most common species, by Gino Cassinelli Del Sante, illustrations by Daniel Huaman.

Lima Field Guide: Birds (fold-out sheet), edited by Guillermo Krell, illustrations by Fernando Zavala, published by Rainforest Expeditions S.A.C.

Lucchetti: El Mas Grave Ecocidio en los Pantanos de Villa, by Arturo Aranda Arrieta and Maria Escalante Gutierrez (Lima: Ediciones Alternativa, 2002)


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