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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Hoatzins - build their nests in vegetation overhanging quiet water. When disturbed, the young nestlings leap into the water below, swim away, and when danger is gone, use their wing claws to climb back into the vegetation and return to their nest. Juvenile Hoatzins lose their wing claws when they attain adulthood.
