In September 2008, four of us from last Fall's Ecuador trip arranged our own trip to Peru, this time visiting Tamshiyacu-Tahuayo in the northeast near Iquitos, Tambopata, in the southeast near Manu, and a day to visit Machu Picchu. For Tahuayo, we used Amazonia Expeditions, and for Tambopata Mondo Verde Expeditions. The local guides at each location knew their birds and did an excellent job of showing them to us, and by the end of the trip we'd tallied nearly 350 species. Although birding was great at Tahuyo with our guides Josias and Anselmo, the focus there was more on various aspects of 'la selva' in addition to the birds. Amazonia Expeditions did a great job of lining up all our air travel and hotels, meeting us at airports, etc., for our whole trip and not just our visit to their lodges. At Tambopata, our superb guide Oscar (and his excellent mentor, Silverio) were exceptional bird guides, and also gave us a variety of fascinating jungle experiences. For this trip, most of my pictures were taken with my Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ18, the rest with a Canon PowerShot SD450.

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