Peru Birding Tour
Peru Birding Tours: Tambopata Macaw Clay Lick
The Amazon's greatest spectacle: hundreds of macaws on a river-bank clay lick at dawn.
Coming soon · Tambopata Macaw Clay Lick · 3–5 days
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Tambopata Macaw Clay Lick
Nothing in Neotropical birding matches dawn at a Tambopata clay lick: hundreds of Red-and-green, Scarlet and Blue-and-yellow Macaws wheeling against the forest before dropping to the exposed river bank, with a supporting swarm of parrots and parakeets. The Tambopata National Reserve protects the largest known clay licks in the Amazon — and it's only a 30-minute flight from Cusco to Puerto Maldonado.
Between lick sessions the reserve delivers classic lowland Amazon birding and wildlife: Hoatzins and Horned Screamers at the oxbow lakes, Sunbittern along quiet channels, King Vulture over the canopy, and a resident family of Giant River Otters — a gentler, shorter and more affordable Amazon entry than a full Manu expedition.
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What You'll Target
Target species
- Red-and-green Macaw
- Scarlet Macaw
- Blue-and-yellow Macaw
- Hoatzin
- Horned Screamer
- Sunbittern
- King Vulture
- Undulated Tinamou
- Giant River Otter
- Black Caiman
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