Material for InkaNatura Guides

names and email addresses from 2008 guides course (Microsoft Word document)

letter sent to InkaNatura - February 2008 (pdf document)

bird checklists from 2008 guides course (8 January - 19 February 2008)

Waypoints and track logs for Dptos. Cusco & Madre de Dios - a .kml file that can be opened with Google Earth. It includes waypoints from along the road from Cusco to Atalaya, along the Rio Alto Madre de Dios, Rio Madre de Dios, and Rio Manu, showing the locations of lodges, birding spots, etc. as well as track logs showing the course of the Cusco-Atalaya road and the trail systems at Manu Wildlife Center and Cock-of-the-Rock Lodge. (download .kml file)

A NATURAL SYSTEMS GLOSSARY - A Glossary of Environmental, Biological, Zoological, Botanical, Ecological, Biogeographical, Evolutionary, Taxonomic, Hydrologic, Geographic, Geomorphologic, Geophysical and Meteorological Terms (download pdf file)

Field Museum link for downloading plates of plants and animals - http://fm2.fieldmuseum.org/plantguides/

xeno-canto link for downloading bird vocalizations - http://www.xeno-canto.org/

Recording of Scaled Antpitta (Grallaria guatimalensis) from the Cock-of-the-Rock Lodge (the recording on the Voices of Andean Birds CD is of a different subspecies). (download .mp3 file)

Powerpoint presentations

• Amazon canopy
• Amazon conservation
• Amazon River
• Classification
• Diversity
• Diesases
• Reptiles & Amphibians
• Insects & Spiders
• plant reproduction

Scientific articles on birds

• MULTI-SPECIES TERRITORIALITY IN NEOTROPICAL FORAGING FLOCKS
• Effects of Diet, Migration, and Breeding on Clay Lick Use by Parrots in Southeastern Peru
• PATTERNS OF ACTIVITY, FLOCKING, AND HABITAT USE IN PARROTS OF THE PERUVIAN AMAZON
  
• Seasonal variation in occurrence of macaws along a rainforest river
• Foraging Behavior of Neotropical Tyrant Flycatchers
• USE OF ARBOREAL TERMITARIA BY NESTING BIRDS IN THE PERUVIAN AMAZON
• ARBOREAL DEAD-LEAF-SEARCHING BIRDS OF THE NEOTROPICS
• THE DIETS OF NEOTROPICAL TROGONS, MOTMOTS, BARBETS AND TOUCANS
• OBSERVATIONS OF THE PALE-EYED BLACKBIRD IN SOUTHEASTERN PERU

My essays

Links on Peruvian birds

• List of Birds of Peru - a Peru bird list found on Wikipedia
  
• Peru Bird DataBase - a bird list of Peru by department
• A classification of the Bird Species of South America
  
• Birding Peru - a large site with many photos, audio clips, video clips and bird lists for Peru
  
• Birds of Peru range maps - Working maps from the Birds of Peru project, much more detailed than the maps in the published book.
• IUCN Red List of Threatened Species - Detailed information on threatened and endangered species found in Peru.

Audio recording data for xeno-canto

• field tape data sheets (download zip file - 61.8 MB)
• Peru & Ecuador Study Tape data sheets (download zip file - 33.9 MB)