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Click here if you are interested in see all the pictures for this topic -- including ones that did not make the cut. Peru is home to more than 1,800 bird species (about 20% of the world's total), 120 of which are found nowhere else in the world. Nearly 1000 species have been recorded at Manu Biosphere Reserve, a protected area in the southeastern part of the country, alone.

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Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna), Yellow-crowned parrots (Amazona ochrocephala), and Scarlet macaws feeding on clay

Scarlet macaw (Ara macao)

Red-and-green macaws (Ara chloroptera)

Scarlet macaw (Ara macao) headshot

Chestnut Eared Aracari (Pteroglossus castanotis)

Green heron (Butorides striatus)

Andean Cock-of-the-rock

Lafresnaya lafresnayi hummingbird in mid-flight

Coeligena (inca) torquata hummingbird

Boissonneaua matthewsii hummingbird feeding

Leucippus chionogaster hummingbird

Coeligena (inca) torquata hummingbirds at bird feeder

Hummingbirds on bird feeder

Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna) and Scarlet macaws

Large group of parrots and macaws flying

Red-and-green macaws (Ara chloroptera)

Scarlet macaws flying in front of purple flowers

Red-and-green macaws (Ara chloroptera)

Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna), Yellow-crowned parrots (Amazona ochrocephala), and Scarlet macaws feeding on clay

Red-bellied macaws (Ara manilata) in flight

Red-and-green macaws (Ara chloroptera)

Entire clay lick

Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna), Yellow-crowned parrots (Amazona ochrocephala), Red-and-green macaws and Scarlet macaws feeding on clay

Red-and-green macaws (Ara chloroptera)

Macaws feeding on clay wall

Red-and-green macaws (Ara chloroptera)

Pair of Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna) flying

Single red-and-green macaw (Ara chloroptera) on branch preparing to feed on clay wall

Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna), Yellow-crowned parrots (Amazona ochrocephala), and Scarlet macaws feeding on clay

Cobalt-winged Parakeets (Brotogeris cyanoptera) feeding on clay wall with Scarlet macaws (Ara macao)

Red-and-green macaws (Ara chloroptera) in flight

Macaw clay lick from a distance

Red-and-green macaws (Ara chloroptera) in flight

Red-and-green macaws (Ara chloroptera)

Pair of red-and-green macaws fighting in a tree as parrots watch

Macaws feeding on clay wall

Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna), Yellow-crowned parrots (Amazona ochrocephala), and Scarlet macaws feeding on clay

Three Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna) perched in tree

Red-and-green macaws in flight above clay lick

Macaws feeding on clay wall

Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna), Yellow-crowned parrots (Amazona ochrocephala), and Scarlet macaws feeding on clay

Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna) and Red-bellied macaws (Ara manilata)

Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna), Yellow-crowned parrots (Amazona ochrocephala), and Scarlet macaws feeding on clay

Wild Scarlet macaw (Ara macao)

Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna), Yellow-crowned parrots (Amazona ochrocephala), Red-and-green macaws and Scarlet macaws feeding on clay

Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna), Yellow-crowned parrots (Amazona ochrocephala), and Scarlet macaws feeding on clay

Hummingbird feeding on Heliconia flower

Close-up on face of a Red-and-green macaw

Blue-and-yellow macaw flying in front of purple flowers

Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna), Yellow-crowned parrots (Amazona ochrocephala), and Scarlet macaws feeding on clay

Red-and-green macaws in flight above clay lick

Red-and-green macaw in flight

Blue-and-yellow macaws flying toward clay lick

Red-and-green macaws (Ara chloroptera)

Scarlet macaw (Ara macao) headshot

Green-and-red macaw feeding on crackers after stealing them from a room

Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna), Yellow-crowned parrots (Amazona ochrocephala), and Scarlet macaws feeding on clay

Red-and-green macaws (Ara chloroptera) in flight

Pair of Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna) flying

Blue-and-yellow macaws inflight

Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna), Yellow-crowned parrots (Amazona ochrocephala), Red-and-green macaws and Scarlet macaws feeding on clay

Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna), Yellow-crowned parrots (Amazona ochrocephala), and Scarlet macaws feeding on clay

Green-and-red macaw feeding on a banana

Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna), Yellow-crowned parrots (Amazona ochrocephala), and Scarlet macaws feeding on clay

Blue-and-yellow macaw (Ara ararauna) in flight

Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna) and Red-bellied macaws (Ara manilata)

Red-and-green macaws (Ara chloroptera)

Red-and-green macaws

Three Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna) flying

Red-and-green macaws (Ara chloroptera)

Scarlet macaw (Ara macao) headshot

Pair of Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna) flying

Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna), Yellow-crowned parrots (Amazona ochrocephala), and Scarlet macaws feeding on clay

Red-and-green macaw (Ara chloroptera) on clay lick

Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna), Yellow-crowned parrots (Amazona ochrocephala), and Scarlet macaws feeding on clay

Pair of Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna) flying

Red-and-green macaws (Ara chloroptera)

Blue-and-yellow macaws, Scarlet macaws, and parrots on clay lick

Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna), Yellow-crowned parrots (Amazona ochrocephala), and Scarlet macaws feeding on clay

Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna), Yellow-crowned parrots (Amazona ochrocephala), Red-and-green macaws and Scarlet macaws feeding on clay

Red-and-green macaws (Ara chloroptera)

Blue-headed parrots (Pionus menstruus) in tree

Mealy parrots in flight over rainforest

Cobalt-winged parakeet (Brotogeris cyanoptera) feeding on Kapok seeds

Parrots in flight

Blue-headed parrots and Yellow-crowned parrots

Cobalt-winged parakeet (Brotogeris cyanoptera) feeding on Kapok seeds

Cobalt-winged parakeet (Brotogeris cyanoptera) feeding on Kapok (Ceiba) seeds

Blue-headed parrot (Pionus menstruus) feeding on clay lick

Blue-headed parrots (Pionus menstruus) and Yellow-crowned parrots (Amazona ochrocephala) feeding on clay wall

Parakeets flying over forest canopy

Yellow-crowned parrots (Amazona ochrocephala)

Dusky-headed parakeets (Aratinga weddellii)

Red-and-green macaws (Ara chloroptera)

Feathers of scarlet macaw (Ara macao)

Macaws feeding on clay lick

Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna) flying toward clay lick

Flock of Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna) flying toward clay lick

Pair of Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna) flying

Yellow-crowned parrot (Amazona ochrocephala)

Cobalt-winged parakeet (Brotogeris cyanoptera) feeding on Ceiba seeds

Neotropic cormorant (Phalacrocorax olivaceus) in Oxbow lake

Chestnut Eared Araçari (Pteroglossus castanotis)

Blue-headed parrot, Pionus menstruus, in the canopy

Cobalt-winged parakeet (Brotogeris cyanoptera) in Kapok tree

Neotropical cormorant (Phalacrocorax olivaceus) in Oxbow lake

Wattled Jacana (Jacana jacana) in grass near Oxbow lake

Hanging Oropendula nests in canopy tree

Spix's Guan, Penelope jacquacu

Hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin) in vegetation along oxbow lake

Amazonian Oropendola (Gymnostinops bifasciatus)

Social flycatcher (Myiozetetes similis)

Striated heron

Spix's Guan, Penelope jacquacu, on clay lick

Red-capped cardinal (Paroaria gularis)

Unknown bird

Black-capped Tanager (Tangara heinei)

Spix's Guan, Penelope jacquacu

Hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin) in vegetation along oxbow lake

Chestnut Eared Aracari (Pteroglossus castanotis)

Hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin) in vegetation along oxbow lake

Saffron-crowned Tanager [Tangara xanthocephala]

Spix's Guan, Penelope jacquacu, on clay lick

Neotropic cormorant (Phalacrocorax olivaceus) with wings spread and standing on one leg

Wattled jacana (Jacana jacana)

Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)

Russet-backed Oropendula (Psarocolinus angustifrons) with hanging nests

Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)

Common Piping Guan, Pipile pipile

Unidentified bird in forest canopy

Four Neotropic cormorants (Phalacrocorax olivaceus) on tree branch

Hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin) in vegetation along oxbow lake

Small shore birds along Rio Tambopata

Neotropic cormorant

Wattled jacana (Jacana jacana)

Social flycatcher (Myiozetetes similis)

Vulture

Vulture

Greater ani (Crotophaga major)

Neotropic cormorant

Black-fronted Nunbird (Monasa nigrifrons)

White-throated Toucan (Ramphastos tucanus)

Hanging Oropendola nests in canopy tree

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