(El Prado), Madre De Dios – PERU December,19Th - 2020

> A Field Report < Of Birding Excursions and the importance of Empowering Women in the Birding Activities for Enviromental Education in Peru and Bolivia.

WOMEN BIRDERS PROGRAM Sponsored by Jacamar Club and Vortex Optics. Carachamayoc Center (El Prado), Madre de Dios – PERU December,19th - 2020

Meylli Rosita Alvarado Macedo1 Ana Amable2, Richard Amable3 [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] https://jacamarclub.com/ [email protected] info@[email protected]

The “Women Birders”, a program created to empower women in the good ecological practices of birding & birdwatching in Peru and Bolivia. Through this program the women in the community will be able to increase their leadership and knowledge in conservation and ecotourism. Also, this will make a difference in their communities as they can represent their communities and will lead the changes in local conservation behavior. Finally, it will benefit directly to the conservation of local birds.

The Jacamar Club programs perform a series of activities as a preliminary step to environmental education, ecotourism ideas and conservation of bird habitats in Peru and Bolivia.

Women birders from Madre de Dios - Tambopata, at Carachamayoc (El Prado) - Photo by Candy Echevarria

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Main Square of Puerto Maldonado - Madre de Dios – Photo Álvaro Capa

MADRE DE DIOS REGION

It is one of the twenty-four departments that, together with the Constitutional Province of Callao, make up the Republic of Peru. Its capital and most populated city is Puerto Maldonado. It is located in the southeast of the country, in the Amazon. It was created on December 26, 1912 from the territories of Puno and Cuzco. The climate is tropical, hot, and humid, with annual rainfall of over 1000 mm. The average annual temperature in the capital is 26 ° C with a maximum of 38 ° C in August and September, on some occasions it can reach 40 ° C and a minimum of 21 ° C, with rains from December to March.

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Tambopata province is one of the three provinces of the Madre de Dios Region in southern Peru. Contemplate a great biodiversity. It is over there National Reserve of Tambopata, just 50 minutes around by boat. It is one of the places where the Amazonia is in harmony, surrounded by lakes of meandering origin and many click licks of parrots and macaws.

TOCHA CARACHAMAYOC – EL PRADO

Located in the community of Prado in the province of Tambopata., 30 minutes by land. Then you take a trail that serves as a connection between the community and the forest. It has an area of 24 to 26 hectares and its climate varies between tropical, hot, humid and with annual rainfalls above 1000 mm. In exceptional years the territory is invaded by masses of cold air from the south during the months of July and August, causing exceptional drops in temperature to 8 ° C, it has a beautiful stream and a lake full of abundant species. In this forest we can find various species of flora and fauna of our national forest.

Map about ANP by RN Tambopata: Diagnóstico del Proceso de Elaboración del Plan Maestro 2011-2016

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THE MAP AND THE BIRDING LOCALITY OF INTERES1

The map the Community Prado – Google maps

Carachamayoc Forest. Photo by Candy Echevarria

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THE LIST

TINAMIFORMES TINAMIDAE 1. Cinereous Tinamou - Crypturellus cinereus - Perdiz Cinérea* Heard only. Hilty & Brown (1986) reports that like others of the genus, notably furtive and difficult to see. Prefers to walk or run when surprised rather than fly. Su status and habitat: floor on second growth, esp. near streams, su song a single tremulous whistle (about 1.5 sec. duration), rarely a ser. Of faintly tremulous whistles on same pitch (at a distance tremulous sound inaudible); the single whistle much like that of Sun bittern but richer, less penetrating.

ANSERIFORMES ANHIMIDAE 2. Horned Screamer – Anhima cornuta – Gritador Unicornio (Camungo) It is a species of anseriform bird of the Anhimidae family, typical of South America, related to the chajá. Widely extended, its populations occupy a good part of Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, the Guianas and Bolivia. It is the flagship bird of the Colombian department of Arauca.

COLMBIFORMES COLUMBIDAE 3. Ruddy Pigeon – Patagioemas subvinacea – Paloma Rojiza 4. The wine pigeon is 28 cm long and weighs around 170 g and is purplish-pink in color, turning redder on the back. The tail and primary wing feathers are dark brown, the beak is black, and the legs are reddish-purple. The iris is usually red, but sometimes, at least in the Amazon basin, it can be pale yellow.

5. Gray-fronted Dove – Leptotilia rufaxilla – Paloma de Frente Gris It is found in South America from Colombia, Venezuela, and the Guianas to northern Paraguay, Argentina, and Uruguay. It feeds on seeds and small fruits, collected from the ground, and on invertebrates. The nest is formed by branches, and is built in a bush or a tree trunk, where the female generally lays two white eggs.

APODIFORMES TROCHILIDAE 6. Rufous-breasted Humit – Glaucis hirsutus – Ermitaño de Pecho Canela It has an overall length of 107mm (4.2 inches) and weighs an average of 7g (0.25oz). The bill measures about 3.3 cm (1.3 in) and is totally downward sloping, long and thin, although compared to the beaks of other hummingbirds, it is quite robust. The Glaucis Hermit Hirsutus has a brownish head, tan-green upper parts, and Rufus underparts. The tail has green feathers and Rufus outer feathers, all with white tips. The bill has a yellow lower jaw and a black upper jaw. The sexes are similar, but the male has a yellow ray on the upper jaw, and the female has slightly paler plumage. The beak of the females is also proportionally a little shorter.

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© 2020 Jacamar Club - Perú OPISTHCOMIFORMES OPISTHOCOMIDAE 7. Hoatzin – Opisthocomus hoazin – Shansho It is a peculiar tropical bird that lives in the swampy areas that surround the Amazon and Orinoco rivers, in South America. It has the dimensions of a pheasant, but it is much more slender, with a longer neck and tail and a small head. . It has a limited flight capacity. Its approximate size is 60 cm. The face is bare, with a bright blue color and a red iris; the head is adorned with an upright, disheveled, fan-shaped crest. The color of the crest, the front part of the neck and the chest is buff-tan; the rest of the dorsal part is brown.

CATHARTIFORMES CATHARTIDAE 8. Black Vulture - Coragyps atratus – Gallinazo de Cabeza Negra Very common in towns and all kinds of settled, partially cleared and open country. Mainly a carrion feeder and widespread in settled areas; often roosts in trees or on buildings in towns and sometimes becomes assertive and bold around garbage dumps. Roosts and usually soars in groups and the only vulture likely to be abroad at or before dawn.

ALCEDINIDAE CORACIIFORMES 9. American Pygmy Kingfisher – Chloroceryle aenea – Martín Pescador Pigmeo Is a resident breeding kingfisher which occurs in the American tropics from southern Mexico south through Central America to western Ecuador, and then around the northern Andes cordillera in the east to central Bolivia and central Brazil. The species occupies the entire Amazon basin and the Tocantins River drainage adjacent in Pará state Brazil. It also occurs on Trinidad.

GALBULIFORMES GALBULIDAE 10. White-throated Jacamar – Brachygalba albogularis – Jacamar de Garganta Blanca It is found in the gallery forest and the flooded areas of the jungles in Bolivia, Brazil and Peru, at less than 600 meters above sea level. It measures 15 to 17 cm in length. The plumage is dark brown with a whitish face, cream-colored bill and chestnut-colored chest. It feeds on insects that it catches on the fly.

PSITTACIFORMES PSITACIDAE 11. Red-bellied Macaw – Orthopsittaca manilatus – Guacamayo de Vientre Rojo It lives in South America, in tropical environments, from Colombia and Trinidad to Bolivia and Peru, and to central Brazil. Like most parrots, the red-bellied macaw lays 2 to 3 eggs in the cavity of a tree, mainly palm trees. On average it reaches an adult length of about 46 cm and a weight of 370 g. It has the typical and long tail of macaws. Its plumage is green; has a burgundy red spot on the belly; her forehead and shoulders are blue and her chest has a gray tint; the underside of the wings and tail are dull yellow.

12. Chesnut-fronted Macaw – Ara severus – Guacamayo de Frente Castaña They can be found over a large part of Northern South America from Panama south into Amazonian Brazil and central Bolivia. A feral population has also been established in Florida. Is mostly green in colour with patches of red and blue on the wings. The head has a chestnut brown patch just above the beak. The beak is black and the patches around the eyes are white with lines of small black feathers.

PASSERIFORMES THAMNOPHILIDAE 13. Plumbeous Antbird – Mymelaste hyperythru) – Hormiguero Plomizo It is distributed in southern Colombia (west of Caquetá), northeast Ecuador (Sucumbíos, Orellana), eastern Peru (Loreto south to Madre de Dios), southwestern Brazilian Amazon (east to the Purus river basin) and northwest of Bolivia.

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14. Black-throated Antbird – Myrmophylax atrothorax – Hormiguero de Garganta Negra It is widely distributed in south central Colombia, south and west of Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, throughout the Brazilian Amazon, east of Ecuador, east of Peru and north and center of Bolivia. It measures between 13 and 14 cm in length and weighs between 14 and 18 g.6 throughout most of its range, the male is dark brown above with a semi-concealed white dorsal patch, the wing coverts with white spots; the tail is blackish. The throat and chest are black, the face, sides of the neck and the belly are gray.

15. Band-tailed Antbird - Hypocnemoides maculicauda - Hormiguero de Cola Bandeada Widespread and fairly common in central and southern Amazonia. Very similar to Black-chinned Antbird, but the two species mostly or entirely replace one another geographically. Both forage in understorey, usually in vegetation overhanging water (typically forest streams, also lake margins and backwater areas). Hop on the ground or on logs at water’s edge, picking at leaves and debris. Tail often bobbed; in low light movement of white tip to tail may give away the bird’s presence. Bandtailed has broader white band at tip of tail (ca. 3–4 mm wide vs. ca. 1 mm) and a white interscapular patch (usually concealed).

CORBIDAE 16. Violaceous Jay – Cyanocorax violaceus – Chara Violacea It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical humid lowland forests and degraded ancient forests. 33 cm bird, slightly crested; usually appears opaque in the field. Head, throat and top of chest are black. Milky white nuchal band intensifies to opaque violet blue in the rest of the plumage. Paler and tinted gypsy underparts. It is observed in groups of different sizes that move on all sides of the stratum of humid, dry, secondary, gallery forests and open areas with isolated trees.

PIPRIDAE 17. Band-tailed Manakin – Pipra fasciicauda – Saltarín de Cola Bandeada It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Peru. Its natural habitats are low and humid forests, swamps and highly degraded tropical or subtropical forests, mainly below 600 m of altitude.

TYRANNIDAE

18. Dull-capped Attila – Attila bolivianus – Atila Amazonico Native to the Amazon basin and the Pantanal in South America, it measures between 19 and 22 cm in length and weighs between 40 and 45 g. u most striking feature is the yellowish-white iris. The beak is horn-colored. Above it is Rufus brown with a greyish crown, rump and tail are bright cinnamon Rufus; the primary feathers and the greater coverts of the wings are blackish. Below is Rufus cinnamon, the belly is paler. It does not present sexual dimorphism

19. Yellow-crowned Tyrannulet - Tyrannulus elatus – Atrapamoscas de Copete Amarillo It is a species of passerine bird in the Tyrannidae family that lives in Central and South America. It is the only species in the genus Tyrannulus. Its natural habitats are the margins of tropical rainforests, sparsely dense forest areas and open scrub areas, and it is also common in woodlands around human-inhabited areas and gardens. The crowned flycatcher is a small, plump bird that measures an average of 10.7 cm long and weighs about 7.5 g. Its upper parts are olive brown in color.

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Band-tailed Antbird – Photo by Alvaro Capa

Southern Lapwing – Photo Alvaro Capa

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.Dull-capped Attila – Photo by Alvaro Capa

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© 2020 Jacamar Club - Perú TROGLODYTIDAE 20. Buff- breasted Wren – Cantorchilus leucotis – Cucarachero de Pecho Anteado On average it measures 14.2 cm and weighs 15.5 g. Its plumage is mainly brown. It has a prominent white superciliary list, whitish cheeks with black lines; white throat, buff chest, brownish flanks and infracaudal region, whitish belly. Its wings and tail are chestnut with fine black lines.

21. Thrush-like Wren – Campylorhynchus turdinus – Cucarachero Zorzal As its common and scientific name suggests, its size and coloration vaguely resembles that of a thrush, although the overall impression it gives in life is very different and it does not completely resemble a thrush. It measures 20.5 cm. It is a large cockroach, quite distinguished and not sympatric with any of its congeners.The head and coat are grayish- brown. The wings and the upper part of the tail are dull brown with dense blackish spots. The white underparts are heavily spotted with a dark color, except on the throat. It usually displays a distinctive whitish brow, and the relatively long tail is commonly kept lopsided. The slightly curved bill is relatively long, and, for a cockroach, wide. The iris is dull amber, brown or brown in color.

CARDINALIDAE 22. Silver-beaked Tanager – Ramphocelus cargo – Tangara de Pico Plateado It is found in South America, from eastern Colombia, Venezuela, and Trinidad, to Brazil, Paraguay, and northeastern Argentina. On average it measures 18 cm in length and weighs 25 g. Adult males are velvety black plumage with throat. The throat and chest deep crimson red, which stands out depending on the lighting of the site and is seen more intense in the birds basking in the sun, when the feathers are pushed aside and some appear ruffled. The upper jaw of the bill is black, but the male is distinguished by the silver-white lower jaw, shiny like porcelain.

23. Grayish Saltator – Saltator coerulescens – Saltador Grisaseo It is native to America. It is widely distributed from Mexico4 to northern Argentina, measuring an average of 20 cm and weighing about 52 g. The tonality of their plumage depends on the age and the subspecies to which it belongs, although they are generally birds with gray or grayish-green color on the upper parts, a gray breast, a cream or cinnamon belly, with a white superciliary list and another vertical white list in the throat.

CHARADRIIFORMES CHARADRIIDAE 24. Southern Lapwing – Vanellus chilensis – Tero Tero Native to South America, where it is very common in many areas of Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Paraguay and Peru, and in the plains of Argentina and Uruguay, being in the latter the symbol of the national team rugby and the national bird. It is also found in Costa Rica. Its appearance is that of a small bird, with inconspicuous colors but very elegant and stylized, crowned by a small and fine pompadour. It is a small wader 30 to 36 cm long. Its plumage is black with a mixture of white (under the body), gray and brown. It also has some small purplish hues in the wing area. The tail is medium in size.

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THANKS TO THE PROUD SUPPORTER AND SPONSORS FOR THE BIRDERS WOMEN PROGRAM - 2020

1. Thanks to Shamus Terry and Vortex Optics for sponsoring with birding gear for the education and training purpose, to help leaders in birding and birdwatching in Perú. 2. Thanks a lot, to our Jacamar Club Team and Instructor Alvaro Capa, for the for the support and accompaniment. 3. Thanks to volunteers (Puerto Maldonado) for this program and for the enthusiasm and companionship in the world of birds.

• Egresada de Guía Oficial de Turismo Candy Echevarría • Lic. Cecilia Borda • Guía de turismo Janet Chávez • Egresada de guía Turismo Ángela Enríquez • Estudiante de Ing. Forestal María Gutiérrez • Egresada de Guía de Turismo Junnet Maldonado • Estudiante de Guía oficial de Turismo Meylli Alvarado • Estudiante de Guía oficial de Turismo Yadhira Cavero

All the birds were photographed in their natural environments, and this event was carried out with all the corresponding biosecurity protocols and permits.

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REFERENCES AND LITERATURES

HILTY, S. L. & W. L. BROWN. 1986. A guide to the Birds of Colombia. Princeton University Press. 836 pp

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (https://www.iucnredlist.org/).

PLENGE, M. A. Versión [junio/2020] List of the birds of Peru / Lista de las aves del Perú. Unión de Ornitólogos del Perú.

SCHULEMBERG, T. S.; D .F.STOTZ; D. F. LANE; J. P. O’NEILL & T. A., PARKER III. 2007. Birds of Peru. Princeton Field Guides. Princeton University Press. 304 pp.

SAAC (The South American Classification Committee). Classification of the Bird Species of South America.

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PICTURES OF THE DAY

Participants at Carachamayoc Trail - Photo by Candy Echevarria

Listening to the song of the birds - Photo by Candy Echevarria

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Aguajal Carachamayoc - Photo by Candy Echevarria

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Participants the day - Photo by Candy Echevarria THE END

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