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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Adult female - Magnificient Frigate - displaying the hooked-beak, which is used to pick food from the water surface, for these birds do not go into the water, because they do not have an oil gland to coat (waterproof) their feathers like most marine birds - they also rarely walk because of their small feet - this specimen a mature female Maginificient.
