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Marvelous Spatuletail hummingbird hovering at a flower, northern Peru

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Peru Birding Resources

Guides, checklists and field plans from our guiding team — free to download, print and share. No sign-up required.

Photo © Jean Paul Perret

From Our Field Team

Take the guides with you

Everything here is written by the people who guide these sites every week — the same notes we hand our own team. Download, print, share with your trip mates; if they help you plan a better Peru trip, that's the point.

Species Lists

Bird checklists

Complete species lists for every site we guide — 60reserves across Lima and Cusco's Sacred Valley, compiled from eBird in taxonomic order with Peruvian endemics marked. Tap on your phone or print for the field.

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Ecosystem field guides

Photographic guides to the four great ecosystems our Lima tours cross — every species pictured and named, Peruvian endemics marked.

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Marine Ecosystem: A Field Guide

The Humboldt Current cast in photographs — Humboldt Penguin, Inca Tern, boobies, cormorants, sea lions and more, with Peruvian endemics marked.

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Wetlands Ecosystem: A Field Guide

The coastal wetland specialists photographed and labeled — Many-colored Rush-Tyrant, rails, grebes, bitterns and the Peruvian Thick-knee.

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Lomas Ecosystem: A Field Guide

The fog-oasis world our founder documented for National Geographic — miners, canasteros, Raimondi's Yellow-Finch and the raptors of the lomas.

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Andean Valleys: A Field Guide

The inter-Andean valley specialists in photographs — Bronze-tailed Comet, Great Inca-Finch, Andean Condor and more, endemics marked.

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Planning guides & checklists

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Peruvian Endemics: The Target List

Every Peruvian endemic on our tour target lists — 43 species, each mapped to the exact tour that finds it, with tick-boxes for your trip.

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Birding Lima: The Essential Guide

The six world-class sites within day-trip range of the capital — key birds, time needed and season-by-season advice.

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The Peru Birding Packing List

Coast, 4,800 m puna and Amazon in one bag: the printable checklist we give our own guides, from optics to altitude meds.

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The Lima Layover Birding Plan

A one-page field plan for airport connections: what 5, 8 or 10+ hours realistically buys you, and the golden rules.

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Tour sheets

Every tour condensed to two or three printable pages — dates, prices, target species with the Peruvian endemics marked, and the day-by-day, with every photograph credited. Handy for sharing with the people you are travelling with.

More resources are on the way — site checklists, seasonal calendars and photography guides. Questions about planning your trip? Write to us — advice is free too.