Peru Birding Rally ~ Dec 2013

Carlos, soaked through to the skin but still smiling!
A steaming hot day and then torrential rain - Steve takes a shower, fully clothed!
A steaming hot day and then torrential rain - Steve takes a shower, fully clothed!
Steve double-checks our total for the first day. 176 put us in 1st place!
Our home for 5 days...complete with mosquito nets
Caught in a torrential downpour, the Colombian team were also getting wet!
Manuel Bryce
From Peurto Maldanado to the Reserva Amazonica takes over an hour by boat
Our boatman for our journey down the Madre de dios
Pueurto Maldanado
The winners and...the runners up. It was great fun and a superb way to notch up 583 species in two w
Downtown Peurto Maldanado
Puerto Maldanado arrivals hall
Peurto Maldanado airport
Jesse and Steve trying to look disinterested in her butt...
Dan Lane, sound recording Western Willets and Hudsonian Whimbrels at Ventanilla
Local women in traditional Inca dress, Agua Calientes.
Jesse Cantador Fagan with Dan Lane at Machu Picchu
Barry Walker of Manu Expeditions
Steve and Gavin recording and playing for Cream-coloured Woodpecker
Birding in the Reserva Amazonica
Our local guide for the Amazonian leg, Carlos Torres, complete with a cloud of mosquitos!
Birding at Pucasana
Birding with friends! Gavin Bieber, Jesse Cantador Fagan, Steve Howell and Dan Lane at Villa Lagoons
Birding in the deserts of Lomas de Lachay
The organising committee at Inkaterra/ITA. Dennis Osorio, Jose Purisaco and the unique Manuel Bryce!
Our great friends, competitors and eventual winners. From Field Guides, Jesse Cantador Fagan, Dan La
The senior figures at Inkaterra, Jose Koechin, Miguel Hernandez and Maria de Carmera
The Sunbird/WINGS team at the opening ceremony. From left Gavin Bieber, me, Jose Purisaca of ITA and