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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Hoatzin - displaying its buffed-tipped tail feathers, long clawed toes, unfeatherd light-blue face, dark burgandy eyes, and spiked rufous crest - an herbivore living among the swamps, fresh water marshes, gallery forests, and the banks of rivers, lakes and streams of the Amazin Basin - this specimen in the Manu province - Madre de Dios department.
