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Blue-crowned Trogon Trogon curucui: Seen or heard fairly regularly between Amazonía Lodge and
Manu National Park
Collared Trogon Trogon collaris: Two birds were seen well at Amazonía Lodge (nominate race).
Masked Trogon Trogon personatus: We had good luck with this species in the Manu cloud forest
seeing a total six.
ALCEDINIDAE
Ringed Kingfisher Ceryle torquata: At least four of these impressive birds were seen along the Manu
and Madre de Dios Rivers as well as at Cocha Blanco.
Amazon Kingfisher Chloroceryle amazona: This species is usually more numerous than Ringed
Kingfisher in the Manu lowlands. We totalled up to 10 individuals during the trip.
Green Kingfisher Chloroceryle americana: A handful of sightings from the Manu lowlands from both
rivers and oxbows.
Green-and-rufous Kingfisher Chloroceryle inda (LO): A bird along the creek at Manu Wildlife Centre
was sadly a leader-only sighting shooting off its perch.
MOMOTIDAE
Broad-billed Motmot Electron platyrhynchum: Good spotting by Gwen and others at Pantiacolla
Lodge to find this bird in the subcanopy.
Rufous Motmot Barypthengus martii (H): Heard on a few occasions in the Manu lowlands.
Whooping Motmot Momotus ignobilis (H): Somewhat vocal during our stay at Manu Wildlife Centre.
Highland Motmot Momotus aequatorialis: We had great luck in seeing an individual that came down
to pause on the road! Then during the extension we saw three additional birds during our
train rides to and from Machu Picchu. A bigger and higher-elevation replacement of the
previous.
GALBULIDAE
Purus Jacamar (Chestnut J) Galbalcyrhynchus purusianus: We first saw this species from one of the
trails at Romero and we later saw more at Cocha Camungo. It is named after the Purús
River, a tributary of the Amazon, which together with the Manu River form a large,
roadless wilderness area home to two uncontacted indigenous groups, termed the
Mashco and the Curanjeño, both living in voluntary isolation. In 1894 the Peruvian
rubber baron Carlos Fitzcarrald left the Ucayali-Urubamba watershed and crossed an
overland isthmus (now known as the Fitzcarrald Arch) into what he thought was the
Purús River, but which was actually the Manu River. He eventually brought a steam-ship
(having to disassemble it) from Iquitos over the 10 kilometre long isthmus, terrorizing
Indians along the Rio Manu as he went, an exploit dramatized, although inaccurately, by
the German producer Werner Herzog's bizarre film “Fitzcarraldo.”
White-throated Jacamar Brachygalba albogularis: This localised species remains in the Puerto
Maldonado area where we enjoyed good views of a pair.
Bluish-fronted Jacamar Galbula cyanescens: Another elegant member of this showy family, granting
many good views.
BUCCONIDAE
White-necked Puffbird Notharcus hyperrhynchus (H): Our canopy birding was fairly slow and we
were otherwise able to see calling birds.
Chestnut-capped Puffbird Bucco macrodactylus: Our first along the Atalaya ridge was seen by most
of us. Then we all caught up with a very obliging bird over the trail near Manu Wildlife
Centre. Note that Handbook of the Birds of the World resurrects the monospecific genus
Argicus for this species (among other distinguishing features, the Chestnut-capped
Puffbird lacks the ‘bifid’ bill of other species of the subfamily Bucconinae).
Collared Puffbird Bucco capensis (LO): If it were not for a tree fall, we all might have seen this one
that unfortunately flushed upon our approach.
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