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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Orinoco Goose (Neochen jubata) - this specie is mainly terrestrial and inhabits forest-covered banks of tropical rivers, wet savannas, and muddy and sandy margins of large freshwater wetlands that are east of the Andes Mountains, from Venezuela to northern Argentina - they are herbivores, foraging upon leaves and seed-heads - these specimens along the Rio Madre de Dios - in the Southwest Amazon Moist Forest ecoregion - the upper Amazon Basin, with elevations ranging from 1000 ft. (300 m) in the west to about 300 ft. (100 m) in the east.
