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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Little Blue Heron (Egretta caerulea) - grey blue body and wings - head is purple maroon - the distal third of the beak is black, slate grey towards the head, slightly down turned - irises are yellow - legs and feet are grey green - this specimen in the Tumbes Mangroves National Sanctuary.
