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Birdwatching in Limas Parks
Bird watching in Limas Parks Read more and find out about our city - bird watching tour.
Coastal Wetlands
Hummingbirds and Condors
Just a few hours by road from Peru’s capital Lima one can experience the amazing Landscapes of the Andes off the beaten path with Condors flying high up and Hummingbirds rocket-shooting between the vegetation. The valley with its river vegetation and numerous habitats in different altitudes offers amazing bird diversity and some species endemic to Peru. Go birding and trekking with Nature Expeditions in the high valley of the River Chancay. While birding discover the amazing lost cities of Rupak and Chiprak from the pre-inca Atavillos culture with their intact two story buildings being glued to the mountain tops and overseeing the entire valley. And in the evening relax in the thermal baths of Collpa.
Slideshow Birds of Acos, Chiprak and Rupak. Book your birding tour to Acos (Rupak and/or Chiprak)
Desert Lomas
During the so called winter months (June – October) the first few kilometers of Peruvian desert coast from the shoreline landwards are many times covered by a thick condensation fog. This humidity condensating on rocks and hillsides provides the water for temporal vegetation to grow. Within weeks the desert sand is covered by thick green vegetation, even tree-trunks – that appear to be dead during most of the year- become green with leaves and do flower. The entire lifecycle of these temporal oasis habitats (Loma) is squeezed into a few months of the year and then - in summer - everything dries out and dies away, waiting for the next winter fog to bring water. Not only vegetation also birds, mammal and insect species have adapted to this fast rhythm and do populate the Lomas habitat. It is an amazing nature experience to walk a desert habitat and sense the intensity of life surrounded by desert. Visit with us the Loma habitat of the Lachay National Reserve, located 105 km northwards of Lima and covering an area of 5070 hectares. Find out about travel packages and costs for visiting the Lachay National Reserve See our birdwatching-programs to the Olivar Park, Lomas de Lachay and Pantanos de Villa.
Manu rainforest The jungles of the department of Madre de Dios are some of the least disturbed tropical rainforests left in the world. The department still retains more than 85% of its original forest cover, and is home to healthy populations of animals which have all but disappeared in other areas of the Amazon: jaguar, harpy eagle and the large macaws of the genus Ara. Nature Expeditions exciting Manu rainforest program offers you a unique chance to observe several threatened and fascinating rainforest species like Makaws and other parrot species, tapirs, giant river otters and many other bird and mammal species. If you always wanted to experience pristine rainforest and obtain a profound understading of rainforest ecology – then this is your chance. Read more about the Manu rainforest tour Or phone: (0051) (1) 94 10 42 06 or 94 10 42 17 |
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Start your nature experience right in Peru’s capital. We will take you in the early morning or at any other time of the day to walk in one of Limas most beautiful parks: El Olivar. Being a former olive tree plantation you now can observer here – in the middle of San Isidro/Lima - hawks, parrots, hummingbirds, wild doves and many other birds some as colorful as the Vermilion Flycatcher or the Saffron Finch.
Between the shoreline and the desert Peru does count with nearly a hundred coastal wetlands, mostly areas where underground water pressures up to the surface creating swampy conditions and lagoons, as well as the mouths of rivers. These wetlands can be small green patches or saltwater lagoons in the desert or can cover many square kilometers. Even though under intense pressure from contamination, destruction by urban development, agriculture, as well as unregulated hunting, fishing and tourism activities, many of these wetlands are still home to an amazing diversity of bird species. Coastal wetlands are areas where birdwatchers can experience how different bird communities meet and mingle in the same place from marine birds and shore birds to species known from lakes, agricultural and urban areas, native species and migratory birds. 
See here a species 
See here a species list of bird species from the coast and the western Andean slopest
