Birds & Butterflies - Perú
These winged images of Peru, entail 120 species throughout the ecoregions of the : 1. Central Andean Wet Puna - 2. Peruvian Yungas - 3. Central Andean Puna - 4. Southwest Amazon Moist Forest - 5. Sechura Desert - 6. Tumbes-Piura Dry Forest. Peru ranks 2nd in Aves eco-diversity on Planet Earth, with > 1,700 species (counting only breeding species, #1) - and ranks #1 in butterfly species totaling > 3,700.
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Andean Ibis (Theristicus melanopis branackii) - they grow to around 30 in. (73 cm) in length - have a wingspan to about 3.6 ft. (1.1 m) - weight up to about 3 lb. (1.4 kg) - this subspecies distribution range is the high altitude of Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and northern Chile. This specimen at about 12,100 ft (3,690 m), in the Central Andes Puna ecoregion (montane grasslands, mountain peaks, alpine lakes and valleys) - near Laguna Pomacocha - Concepcion province - Junin region - Peru.
