{"id":1683,"date":"2015-09-08T01:58:38","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T04:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/?p=1683"},"modified":"2015-09-08T01:58:38","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T04:58:38","slug":"parque-el-olivar-lima-28-aug-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eayrs.com\/blog\/archives\/1683","title":{"rendered":"Parque El Olivar, Lima – 28 Aug 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Parque El Olivar is in the San Isidro district of Lima, Peru, and is a great place to see local bird species. I went there with my friend Andrew Sheehan and saw a fair number of birds (I didn’t keep a count) including six life-listers for me (details below). We were staying in Miraflores so the park was very easy to get to and was a relaxing moment to take our minds off the conference lectures we had come to give.<\/p>\n

I am including below only the new species that I saw. The first was the Amazilia Hummingbird<\/strong> (Amazilia amazilia<\/em>), known locally as\u00a0amazilia coste\u00f1a or often simply picaflor. These are common in Lima, and we saw several in the Olivar Park. Never easy to photograph, though! I had to use the flash extender<\/a> to reach this one through the bushes.<\/p>\n

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Amazilia Hummingbird<\/p><\/div>\n

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Amazilia Hummingbird<\/p><\/div>\n

I noticed a pigeon\/dove that I hadn’t seen before, with strange bright blue-coloured hard skin around the eyes. This was the West Peruvian Dove<\/strong> (Zenaida meloda<\/i>), of which we saw many – its wings are edged with white, which make it very distinctive when flying.<\/p>\n

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west peruvian dove<\/p><\/div>\n

Also in abundance were Vermilion flycatchers<\/strong> (Pyrocephalus rubinus<\/i>). We found that these came in a number of colours – here I am including the most common brilliant red\u00a0bird and its sooty morph, but we saw other colours too.<\/p>\n

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vermilion flycatcher<\/p><\/div>\n

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vermilion flycatcher (sooty morph)<\/p><\/div>\n

The bird below is the Long-tailed mocking bird<\/strong> (Mimus longicaudatus<\/i>); these two were present in large numbers. Cheerful birds, and with their long tails well named.<\/p>\n

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long-tailed mockingbird<\/p><\/div>\n

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long-tailed mockingbird – with its long tail clearly visible.<\/p><\/div>\n

A bright yellow bird flying all over the park turned out to be the Tropical kingbird<\/strong>\u00a0(Tyrannus melancholicus<\/i>), a cheerful fellow whose intense yellow was a match for the vermilion flycatcher’s bright red.<\/p>\n

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tropical kingbird<\/p><\/div>\n

The last of my six life-listers at the parquet de Olivar was the\u00a0Pacific parrotlet<\/strong> (Forpus coelestis<\/i>). We only saw the one pair, which are dimorphic as in the photo below; the male is on the right. Pretty little birds, very colourful.<\/p>\n

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Pacific parrotlet<\/p><\/div>\n

All in all, a mini-trip but an enjoyable one, and for anyone in the Miraflores\/San Isidro area of Lima with a couple of hours to kill a birding site I can whole-heartedly recommend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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