Will have to leave early towards Manu National Park, we will start our day of full bird watching at Acjanaco Hight pass, which means that our records will be more dynamic since the altitudes from where we observe will be changing, this will guarantee us different species of birds, we will have Tanagers, Tyrans, Trogons, Mountain Tanagers, Toucanets, Fruiteaters, Cotingas, Hummingbirds, etc.

This day the altitudes will vary from 3500 meters/ 11482 ft above sea level. up to 1400 meters /4593 ft above sea level. It will be a sample of ecosystem changes with various species and our chances of recording species such as Golden-headed Quetzal, Masked Trogon, Gray-breasted Mountain -Toucan, Scarlet-bellied Mountain- Tanager, Grass-green Tanager, Barred Fruiteater, Long-tailed Syph, etc.

On the route we will spend the entire day, we will focus on the birds of this area and we will look for the endemic Inca Flycatcher and we will arrive at Cock of the Rock-Pedro area at dusk.

Bamboo Lodge is located at the beginning of the most important ecotone in the Manu National Park, birds such as Harpy Eagle as well as Andean Cock of the Rock have been recorded many times, you can also see a Variable Antshrike and a Silvered Antbird, species that inhabiting altitudinal extremes or they are living together at their altitudinal extremes.

This overlapping is already beginning to show us different weather and new birds for our lists and is where we will start today recording Tanagers such as: Green-and-gold Tanager, Blue-necked Tanager, Green Honeycreeper, Masked Tanager the resident Leaf gleaner such as: Ruddy Foliage, Dusky-cheeked Foliage-Gleaner, Black-backed Tody-Flycatcher, Yellow Tyrannulet, Olivaceous Flatbill, etc.

The list is large and our chance of seeing diverse species such as: Flycatchers, Manakin, Orioles, Seedeaters, and Raptors is high.

Over the course of the day, we will move between birding spots and get closer to our next Paraíso Lodge.

 Macchuwasi is a small swamp surrounded by secondary forest, where some very restricted species have been recorded such as:  Black-and-white Tanager, Red-hooded Tanager, Blackish Rail, Pale-eyed -Blackbird, Black-bellied Seedfinch, Solitary black Casique, obviously there are residents of these types of habitats too such as:  Hoatzin, Black-capped Donacobios, Horned Screemer, Crimson-masked Tanager, etc.

Its paths and small water spaces often offer us the wonderful Sumbittern and the Sungrebe, which are residents in these types of habitat in the Amazon jungle, there are also the antbirds that are shyer and They move close to the ground such as:  White-browed Antbird, White-lined Antbird, Yellow-breasted Warbling-antbird, Plain-winged Antshrike, etc.

Another of our options is to go to Buena Vista (Felipe) which is located on the other side of the Madre de Dios River. This place is located at the base of the primary forest of the Manu National Park that could offer us some species that are residents in primary forests such as: Dwarf-tyrant Manakin, Ocher-bellied Flyacatcher, Spotte-backed Antbird, Round-tailed Manakin, Band-tailed Manakin, Bluish -slate Antshrike, etc.

Soraypampa is a dry forests habitat and montane-Andean foothill’s at upper part. This variation makes possible ecological niches capable of housing endemic species and birds restricted to small spaces that in turn show the fragility of an ecosystem to human action.

The route to Soraypamapa will give us the possibility of being able to register species such as: Creamy-breasted Canastero, in its subspecies Pale tailed Canastero, White-eared Puffbird, perhaps these are the most important of this type of habitat, in this part of the valley we will obviously record many more species such as: Mountain Cacique, unusual in this dry habitat because it is more of a cloud forest, Black-backed Grossbeak, Golden-billed Saltator, etc.

As we ascend towards the upper part of the valley the climate changes and as we advance, we will begin to record species such as: Rust-and-yellow Tanager, Creamy-crested Spinetail, White-winged Black-Tyrant, Apurímac Spinetail, Apurímac Brushfinch and many species that inhabit this forest. At sunset we will return in the direction to Cusco but halfway there we will detour towards Ollantaytambo where we will spend the night.

Today we will leave from Ipal Ecolodge and we will continue recording species, it will be our last day of birding in Peru, we will look for species that we consider necessary on the Ipal Ecolodge trails, or we will go out to look for the endemic species that we are missing on the Abra de Abra cloud forest route. Malaga, in any case, will be very interesting today to look for species on the route and around the hostel.

We will return to the city of Cusco where we will finish our trip through the most attractive bird routes in the Cusco region, it will be the tour where the numbers in our trip reports make this great birding trip in the south of Cusco worth it. Peru.

It will have been a trip of many species, many learnings and a lot of cultural exchange, we will say goodbye in Cusco with great memories of intense days of bird watching that we have experienced.

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