by Ikam Expeditions | Aug 2, 2021 | Birdwatching and photography, Digital series "Voices of th forest", Hummingbirds and orchids
The first chapter of the Voices of the Forest series is the Hummingbird Route, which allows us to learn about the diversity of hummingbirds that exist in the Northern Birding Route and especially the search for the Marvelous Spatuletail, as well as the sites that are...
by Ikam Expeditions | Oct 30, 2020 | Hummingbirds and orchids, Biodiversity and conservation
Hummingbirds´watching is a very interesting activity on The Northern Peru Birding Route. For this reason, in 2019, we began to record the diversity of this family in the main observatories of hummingbirds of northern Peru, having recorded, in that year up to 62...
by Ikam Expeditions | May 22, 2020 | Hummingbirds and orchids
¡All our excursions into the forest are different!. Our friend Kii Fujii, has reinforced a positive relationship with nature, especially with orchids and hummingbirds, and now we have a protector of their habitats and a lover of photographing them. The relationship...
by Ikam Expeditions | Apr 26, 2020 | Hummingbirds and orchids
In Peru, 125 hummingbird species have been identified (SACCC, 2018) out of the 340 that exist in the world (Smithsonian’s National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute, 2019). More than 50% of them can be observed on the Northern Peru Birding Route,...
by Ikam Expeditions | Apr 15, 2020 | Hummingbirds and orchids
The Marvelous Spatuletail (Loddigesia mirabilis) is an endemic bird of Peru, with a very restricted habitat in Amazonas region, at both sides of the Utcubamba Valley. This hummingbird inhabits between 2000 and 2900 m.a.s.l. and it’s easily seen in the Florida district...
