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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Gaudy Altinote - from the sub-family known as "heliconians" or "longwings" - this pair upon the cobble, pebble/gravel, and coarse sand - in the central Junin province - central Peru - Peruvian Yungas ecoregion, here at about 9,600 ft. (1,400 m) in the cloud forest along the eastern Cordillera Andes - (upper SW) Amazon Basin - northwestern South America.
