AMAZONAS (Compass)
Lat:00o00´S/00o00´W ha topography msl
Protected/registered status
Best Time for visit (19th June, 2006)
Birding Site Guide
I visited this site with Fernando Angulo and Frank Lambert and got a lift up in their vehicle. It was about an hour and a half to 2 hour drive from Balsas towards Chachapoyas and would be difficult to get there without your own transport. The road winds up and passes a few buildings and entering a new valley. Here there is space to leave a vehicle. You can look down into the valley and see forest, a few houses and cultivated land below. A little further on is the beginning of a trail down. The first part of the trail was some very surprising cloud forest whose days would appear to be numbered. They are building a road down the hill towards a mine which is bad news for the forest. This is definately worth exploring. A few interesting species we saw here were Streaked Tuftedcheek, Black-crested and Russet-crowned Warblers, Golden-rumped Euphonia, Masked Yellowthroat, Bluish Flowerpiercer, Cloud-forest and Stripe-headed Brush-Finches.
Further down, the forest gets drier with more Acacia. Here we heard Chestnut-backed Thornbird (maybe only 1 pair) and saw Aplomado Falcon, Line-cheeked Spinetail, Chestnut-crowned Antpitta, Buff-bellied & Silver-backed Tanagers, Green Jay and Black-and-white Becard. The site is a strange mix of humid and dry habitats and certainly merits more exploration. I saw 39 species including 1 lifer.
Species seen
- Black Vulture Coragyps atratus
- Aplomado Falcon Falco femoralis
- Band-tailed Pigeon Patagioenas fasciata
- Eared Dove Zenaida auriculata
- White-tipped Dove Leptotila verreauxi
- Scarlet-fronted Parakeet Aratinga wagleri
- Striped Cuckoo Tapera naevia Heard only
- Sparkling Violet-ear Colibri coruscans
- Spot-throated Hummingbird Leucippus taczanowskii Endemic
- Andean Emerald Agyrtria franciae
- Speckled Hummingbird Adelomyia melanogenys
- Purple-collared Woodstar Myrtis fanny Heard only
- Azara's Spinetail Synallaxis azarae Heard only
- Line-cheeked Spinetail Cranioleuca antisiensis
- Chestnut-backed Thornbird Phacellodomus dorsalis Endemic Vulnerable Heard only
- Streaked Tuftedcheek Pseudocolaptes boissonneautii
- Chestnut-crowned Antpitta Grallaria ruficapilla
- Mouse-colored Tyrannulet Phaeomyias murina
- Dusky-capped Flycatcher Myiarchus tuberculifer Heard only
- Black-and-white Becard Pachyramphus albogriseus
- Blue-and-white Swallow Notiochelidon cyanoleuca
- House Wren Troglodytes aedon
- Great Thrush Turdus fuscater
- Tropical Gnatcatcher Polioptila plumbea
- Green Jay Cyanocorax yncas
- Masked Yellowthroat Geothlypis aequinoctialis
- Slate-throated Redstart Myioborus miniatus
- Black-crested Warbler Basileuterus nigrocristatus
- Russet-crowned Warbler Basileuterus coronatus Heard only
- Buff-bellied Tanager Thlypopsis inornata Endemic
- Golden-rumped Euphonia Euphonia cyanocephala
- Silver-backed Tanager Tangara viridicollis
- Blue-black Grassquit Volatinia jacarina
- Drab Seedeater Sporophila simplex
- Bluish Flowerpiercer Diglossopis caerulescens
- Yellow-breasted Brush-Finch Atlapetes latinuchus
- Stripe-headed Brush-Finch Buarremon torquatus
- Rufous-collared Sparrow Zonotrichia capensis
- Streaked Saltator Saltator striatipectus
Other Fauna
A total of -- species of mammals.
There are -- recorded species of amphibians and reptiles.
Flora
Author: Charles Hesse
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