Manú National Park - with a jaguar!

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September 1st 2019

Published: September 1st 2019

Manú National Park, or Manú Biosphere Reserve, is a giant area of Peru’s Amazonian jungle. Only a small fraction of it is available to tourists, with the vast majority reserved for wildlife, native tribes and researchers who have managed to get a permit. Since UNESCO officially recognized it as a World Heritage site in 1977, the Peruvian government has been buying large areas of land that bord... Read Full Entry

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Heather Jasper

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I live in Cusco, Peru and will be posting mostly about my trips around Peru and South America. From August 2012 to June 2014 I lived in Dhaka, Bangladesh and blogged about living there and traveling around Southeast Asia. This blog also contains my stories from living in Istanbul, two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Morocco, and some other travels. ... full info

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Scarlet Macaw pair

These macaws only nest in old palm trees and if one looses it's mate they don't ever pair with another. That, along with habitat destruction and the black market pet trade, are making these birds increasingly endangered.

Parrots eating clay

This is one of the places along the river that you can see parrots eating clay early in the morning.

Three parrots

We saw Blue Headed Parrots, Yellow Crowned Parrots and Orange Cheeked Parrots at the same clay bank.

Chestnut Eared Arasari

This is a rare toucan and we got to see a pair nesting!

Plumbious Kite

We saw four species of kites along the river.

Plum-throated Cotinga

Yellow Headed Vulture

It looks red from this distance, but if you do an image search this vulture had a really colorful head.

Cocoi Heron

We saw these all along the river on every day of the trip.

Rufescent Tiger Heron

We saw this heron on one of the small lakes along the river, one of six heron species we saw.

Ahinga

When these birds swim in the water their whole body is submerged so they look kind of like a snake head barely poking out of the water.

Great Black Hawk

We saw these hawks every day of the trip.

Orinoco Goose

This is a threatened species whose population is still decreasing.

Horned Screamer

These birds were so funny because of their crazy call and the feathered horns that looked like antennae. We saw quite a few of them once we got into the actual biosphere reserve.

Black Skimmers

We saw these along the river, skimming the surface, feeling for fish.

Sun Bittern

The river was so shallow that we couldn't get close enough to scare this bird off, but the underside of the wings are really pretty. Do an image search to see how colorful they are.

Muscovy Ducks

For as much time as we spent on the river, I was surprised that these were the only duck species we saw.

King Vulture

These are truly giant birds that can have a wingspan of up to seven feet.

3rd September 2019

Béné
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Souvenirs...
Ton récit me rappelle notre voyage en Bolivie : jaguar, caïman... Tu sais que tu pourrais aussi te convertir en photographe animalier !!! Bisous

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