Wildlife of Peru
Good introduction to the wildlife of Peru. According to the site: “Peru Wildlife is a central source of information for anybody interested in wildlife watching and ecotourism in Peru”
Peru has incredible bio-diversity and a wealth of wild places and wildlife. The range of wildlife habitat in Peru includes the Andes mountains, the Amazon rain forest, and the coastal zone nourished by the Humboldt current. Peru has over 1,700 species of birds, over 500 species of mammals and over 300 species of reptiles.
The Peruvian Amazon (wikipedia)
The Peruvian Amazon is the area of the Amazon jungle that is confined within the territory of Peru, from the east of the Andes to borders with Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil and Bolivia. This region comprises more than half of the country and is an area with great biodiversity and endemism. The Peruvian Amazon is the second largest jungle after the Brazilian Amazon.
Books
Peru nature guide From the world-famous Machu Picchu Incan ruins high in the Andes Mountains, to Lake Titicaca in southern Peru, to the Iquitos area of Amazonian northeastern Peru, travellers want to experience tropical forests and other stunning habitats and catch glimpses of exotic wildlife. In this book is all the information you need to find, identify, and learn about Peru’s magnificent animal and plant life.
Birds of Peru If any places needed a field guide, it was Peru, second only to Columbia as the most bird-rich country in the world . . . . Now, 40 years after he first envisioned a field guide, [John] O’Neill and his principal co-authors, Tom Schulenberg and Doug Stotz, have finally completed the guide against which all others for the New World tropics will be judged . . . . The Birds of Peru’s nearly 4,000 color illustrations alone–more than double that of any other single-country neotropics guide–set it apart . . . . [It] is the culmination of an incredible amount of fieldwork, but that doesn’t mean the exploration is finished . . . . This book isn’t the end; it’s really the beginning
(Don Stap Audubon Magazine )
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