Feb 23 2019
Birding in Peru: Amazon to Andes

Birding in Peru: Amazon to Andes

Presented by Cotuit Library at Cotuit Library

Boasting vast Amazonian jungles, a long Pacific coastline, and astounding altitudinal habitat diversity, Peru is neck in neck with Columbia for the most bird species of any country in the world. Club board member and Mass Audubon Wellfleet Bay science coordinator Mark Faherty will take us on a journey through Peru's wild Amazon lowlands from north to south, up to the lakes of the high Andes, then to the cloud forests of the eastern Andean slope, and finally the coastal deserts of Lima. In addition to the expected parrots and monkeys, we'll also see the prehistoric Hoatzin, the endemic Inca Wren, some flamingos, and maybe even a Horned Screamer, whatever that is. We'll even visit a remote Amazonian village and the famous Incan citadel of Machu Picchu.

Mark has been the Science Coordinator at Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary since 2007 and has led birding trips for Mass Audubon since 2002. While his current projects involve everything from oysters and horseshoe crabs to bats and butterflies, he has studied primarily bird ecology for the last 20 years, working on research projects in Kenya, Florida, Texas, California, Arizona, Mexico, and the Pacific Northwest. He was a counter for the famous River of Raptors hawk watch in Veracruz, Mexico, and has birded Peru, Africa, Panama, Belize, and both Eastern and Western Europe. Mark leads workshops on birding by ear, eBird, birding apps, and general bird identification. He is past president of the Cape Cod Bird Club and member of the Massachusetts Avian Records Committee. Mark’s weekly essay on Cape and Islands bird life, the “Bird Report”, airs each Wednesday on the Cape and Islands NPR station, where he also co-hosts “Bird News”, a monthly call-in show all about birds, on The Point with Mindy Todd.

This program is free but please register at cotuitlibrary.org/events or contact the Library.

Admission Info

Free Admission

Phone: 5084288141

Email: gaslanian@clamsnet.org

Dates & Times

2019/02/23 - 2019/02/23

Location Info

Cotuit Library

871 Main Street, Cotuit, MA 02635