 The observation of birds or bird watching is an activity realized by million persons in the world. Peru offers numerous possibilities to attract visitors and to develop an activity eco tourist because our country shows the first world place in birds, with more than 1,800 species, of which just 109 live in Peru.
Piura's department is located in the area of endemism for birds from Tumbes, which it is the third one worldwide and the second one for the America for the number of species of birds that here are registered, being constituted as one of the most attractive departments for the observation of birds in the Peruvian north.
For example: it is easy to observe the Humbolt's penguin nesting in "La Isla la Foca" (the Island Seal) and without a lot of effort we will be able to take delight with the "Reinita del Manglar" (The little queen of the swamp) in the Swamps of San Pedro of Vice; another emblematic species that one finds in our department and that one finds in the danger of extinction is the Peruvian "cortarrama" that you can find in the dry forests of Talara and near the Campus of the University "Alas Peruanas" to 5 min. of the downtown.
the urban sector of the river Piura often allows you to observe the pretty heron easily and with a lot of luck migratory birds like "el playero de Hudson" or "el playerito occidental".
For whom please major adventure, Huancabamba's province offers you not only lagoons and "chamanería" (sorcery), but spectacular species of birds that you can observe with easily.
And in Ayavaca the charm of these prominent figures adorned with feathers can be combined with the beauty of Aypate's archaeological remains, where our friends will approach to say good morning to you at the dawn of a camping.
Increasingly adventurers are traveling towards Peru to enjoy the biodiversity, customs and landscapes.
Enrique Angulo Pratolongo, journalist of Infoecología says that the observers of birds or birdwatchers are a limited group of persons who observe birds and organize accustomed trips exclusively for such a purpose. These excursions can be dedicated to the solitary endemic and rares specimen of seeing in a geographical limited area, or to the different and numerous birds that populate a certain ecosystem.
Peru offers a diversity of landscapes and extraordinary possibilities for this activity, not only for the great quantity of birds it possesses, but also for its high quota of endemism, that is for the great number of species that they find exclusively in some habitats inside the Peruvian territory. Both particularities make it very attractive also for the scientists and researchers.
Piura has a surprising ornithological diversity and a lot of species you will be able to find:
Isla Foca
- Spheniscus Humboldti (Humbldt Penguin / Pingüino de Humboldt)
- Sula nebouxii (Blue-footed Booby / Piquero Patas Azules)
- Phalacrocorax gaimardi (Red-legged Cormorant / Chuita)
- Fregata magnificens (Frigatebird / Ave Fragata)
- Haematopus ater (Blackish Oystercatcher / Ostrero Negro)
San Pedro swamps "Manglares"
- Podilymbus podiceps (Pied-billed Grebe / Zambullidor Pico Grueso)
- Podiceps Major (Great Grebe / Zambullidor Mayor)
- Ardea cocoi (Cocoi Heron / Garza Cuca)
- Egretta tricolor (Tricolores Heron / Garza Tricolor)
- Butorides striatus (Striated Heron / Garza Tamanquita)
- Mycteria Americana (Wood Stork / Manchaco)
- Phoenicopterus chilensis (Chilean flaminfo / Flamenco)
- Anas bahamensis (White-checked Pintail / Pato Gargantillo)
- Pandion haliaetus (Osprey / Águila Pescadora) en meses de verano
- Falco peregrinus (Peregrine Falcon / Halcón Peregrino) en meses de verano
- Aramides axillaris (Rufous-necked Word-rail / Rálido Cuello Rufo) solo visto una vez
- Pluvialis squatarola (Black-bellied Plover / Chorlo Ártico)
- Limosa haemastica (Hudsonian Godwit / Playero de Hudson)
- Calidris mauri (Western Sandpiper / Playerito Occidental)
- Larus pipixcan (franklin´s Gull / Gaviota de Franklin) en meses de verano
- Sterna elegans (Elegant Tern / Gaviotín Elegante)
- Sterna lorata (Peruvian Tern / Gaviotín Peruano)
- Hirundo rustica (Barn Swallow / Golondrina Migratoria) en meses de verano
- Dendroica petechia (Yellow or Mangrove Warbler / Reinita del Manglar)
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