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Thank You

The photographers

The people whose pictures make this site what it is.

Photo © Jess Findlay

With Gratitude

We did not take most of these photographs

Birding is a small world, and a generous one. Nearly every photograph on this site was taken by someone else — guides we have worked alongside for years, birders who joined a tour and came back with something better than we could manage, professionals whose work we admire, and the lodges that host us. They lent us their pictures so that you could see what these places actually look like.

Every image on the site carries its photographer's name underneath it. This page is the longer thank-you, and a place to send you to their own work — which is, in every case, worth more of your time than ours.

  • Alfredo Fernández

    43 photographs

    Our founder, who shot a good share of what you see here.

  • Carlos Calle

    6 photographs

    A Limeño who has spent years assembling a photographic record of Peru's birds — the endemics and the rarities above all, and the hummingbirds in particular. He also keeps the Fundo Alto Nieva reserve, a stop on our northern circuit.

    perubirds.org

  • Cesar Donato

    4 photographs

    Photographed the Junín and Central Peru departures — the puna lakes, the pampas cats and the high grasslands.

  • Charlie Hamilton James

    2 photographs

    A National Geographic photographer and filmmaker who works mainly in South America and East Africa. He builds much of his own camera equipment in his workshop to get pictures that would otherwise be impossible.

    charliehamiltonjames.com

  • Debbie DAJ Photos

    3 photographs

    For the Andean Condor over the Santa Eulalia canyon, taken on one of our departures.

  • Glenn Bartley

    1 photograph

    A Canadian photographer from Victoria, British Columbia, known above all for hummingbirds and for portraits of Neotropical birds that are notoriously hard to photograph. He leads workshops across the Americas.

    glennbartley.com

  • Jean Paul Perret

    37 photographs

    A Peruvian photographer whose work here spans the whole country — the Humboldt seabirds, the Lima fog-oasis endemics, the Inca-finches of the dry canyons and the cloud forest of the north. Thirty-six pictures on this site, more than anyone but our founder.

    flickr.com/photos/8062798@N08/

  • Jess Findlay

    18 photographs

    From Burnaby, British Columbia. Named International Youth Photographer of the Year in 2011 and awarded repeatedly in Wildlife Photographer of the Year, with work hung at the Smithsonian and London's Natural History Museum. Every subject he photographs is wild and self-found.

    jessfindlay.com

  • John Meragias

    3 photographs

    Works as Basecamp Photography across landscape, macro, wildlife and ultraviolet. His Inca Terns came out of the photography workshop at Pucusana, and he wrote the guest post that goes with them.

    jmeragiasphoto.com

  • Jon Irvine

    2 photographs

    Photographs under the name Calidris, after the sandpiper genus, and has posted more than twenty thousand pictures since 2008. His ocelot carrying a macaw at the Blanquillo clay lick is one of the strangest things anyone has photographed in Manu.

    flickr.com/photos/calidris-photos

  • Karin Sturm

    Who took the portrait of Alfredo on our About page — the one picture here he could not have taken himself.

  • Kerly Castillo

    1 photograph

    For the Pampas Cat in the Lomas de Lachay.

  • National Geographic Archive

    1 photograph

    For the 1907 plate of the guano colonies on the Chincha Islands, from the era when they were the most valuable birds on Earth.

  • Paul Bertner

    6 photographs

    A biologist turned photographer, trained in cell biology and genetics, who has made tropical rainforest macro work his subject. He photographed the Tambopata pictures here for Rainforest Expeditions, whose lodges we work with.

    rainforests.smugmug.com

  • Rob Williams

    1 photograph

    For the Red-and-green Macaws on the clay wall at Blanquillo.

  • Stefano Raffo

    1 photograph

    For the aerial over the Manu rainforest that opens our map page and several of the Amazon itineraries.

  • Tambo Blanquillo Lodge

    1 photograph

    A private reserve on the lower Madre de Dios, beside the macaw clay lick that gives it its name. They lent us the picture of the jaguar on the riverbank.

    tamboblanquillo.com

If your work is here and we have it wrong

We would rather fix it than argue about it. If a photograph of yours appears on this site uncredited, credited to the wrong person, or you would simply prefer it came down, write to us and we will correct it or remove it the same week.