Machu Picchu

Machu Picchu
Obviously Peru's greatest tourist attraction, there is excellent birding at this archeological site as well. The train tracks near the town of Aguas Calientes are home to a number of unusual and interesting species, including the stunning endemic Masked Fruiteater, Oleaginous Hemispingus, Silver-backed Tanager and Dusky-green Oropendola. Variable Antshrike is frequent throughout the area. Slightly above the town, there are some hummingbird feeders where Gould's Inca, Chestnut-breasted Coronet, Booted Racket-tail and Green-and-white Hummingbirds are among the visitors. The Inca Trail from the ruins down toward the town is also good birding. Inca Wren is found in the upper part, while moving down through the forest, Pale-legged Warbler, White-eared Solitaire, Slaty Tanager and Tricoloured Brush-Finch are among the possibilities. Connecting Sites Aguas Calientes is only accessible via the Inca Trail or by train from Ollantaytambo and Cusco. These trains can be difficult to get tickets for.

Status Table (endemics and specialties in bold) These are the species we've recorded on our last three visits to this site, which has an extensive list including some rather unlikely birds. It is available on the resources page.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90	Torrent Duck Variable Hawk American Kestrel Andean Guan Rock Dove White-tipped Dove White-throated Quail-Dove Mitred Parakeet Speckle-faced Parrot Sparkling Violet-ear Green-and-white Hummingbird Speckled Hummingbird Chestnut-breasted Coronet Booted Racket-tail Long-tailed Sylph White-bellied Woodstar Highland Motmot Black-streaked Puffbird Versicolored Barbet Ocellated Piculet Azara's Spinetail Pearled Treerunner Streaked Xenops Buff-browed Foliage-gleaner Variable Antshrike Masked Fruiteater Andean Cock-of-the-rock Highland Elaenia Sierran Elaenia Torrent Tyrannulet Streak-necked Flycatcher Slaty-capped Flycatcher Marble-faced Bristle-Tyrant Mottle-cheeked Tyrannulet Sclater's Tyrannulet Plumbeous-crowned Tyrannulet Tawny-rumped Tyrannulet White-tailed Tyrannulet Common Tody-Flycatcher Cinnamon Flycatcher Smoke-colored Pewee Black Phoebe Maroon-chested Chat-Tyrant White-winged Black-Tyrant Golden-crowned Flycatcher Tropical Kingbird Barred Becard Blue-and-white Swallow Brown-bellied Swallow White-capped Dipper Inca Wren House Wren Gray-breasted Wood-Wren Andean Solitaire White-eared Solitaire Chiguanco Thrush Glossy-black Thrush Brown-capped Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Tropical Parula Slate-throated Redstart Spectacled Redstart Pale-legged Warbler Russet-crowned Warbler Capped Conebill Common Bush-Tanager Oleaginous Hemispingus Rust-and-yellow Tanager Slaty Tanager Hepatic Tanager Blue-gray Tanager Blue-capped Tanager Blue-and-yellow Tanager Fawn-breasted Tanager Thick-billed Euphonia Bronze-green Euphonia Saffron-crowned Tanager Golden-naped Tanager Blue-necked Tanager Beryl-spangled Tanager Blue-and-black Tanager Silver-backed Tanager Blue Dacnis Rusty Flowerpiercer Tricolored Brush-Finch Rufous-collared Sparrow Golden-billed Saltator Black-backed Grosbeak Dusky-green Oropendola Hooded Siskin	Merganetta armata Buteo polyosoma Falco sparverius Penelope montagnii Columba livia Leptotila verreauxi Geotrygon frenata Aratinga mitrata Pionus tumultuosus Colibri coruscans Leucippus viridicauda Adelomyia melanogenys Boissonneaua matthewsii Ocreatus underwoodii Aglaiocercus kingi Chaetocercus mulsant Momotus aequatorialis Malacoptila fulvogularis Eubucco versicolor Picumnus dorbygnianus Synallaxis azarae Margarornis squamiger Xenops rutilans Syndactyla rufosuperciliata Thamnophilus caerulescens Pipreola pulchra Rupicola peruviana Elaenia obscura Elaenia pallatangae Serpophaga cinerea Mionectes striaticollis Leptopogon superciliaris Phylloscartes ophthalmicus Phylloscartes ventralis Phyllomyias sclateri Phyllomyias plumbeiceps Phyllomyias uropygialis Mecocerculus poecilocercus Todirostrum cinereum Pyrrhomyias cinnamomea Contopus fumigatus Sayornis nigricans Ochthoeca thoracica Knipolegus aterrimus Myiodynastes chrysocephalus Tyrannus melancholicus Pachyramphus versicolor Pygochelidon cyanoleuca Notiochelidon murina Cinclus leucocephalus Thryothorus eisenmanni Troglodytes aedon Henicorhina leucophrys Myadestes ralloides Entomodestes leucotis Turdus chiguanco Turdus serranus Vireo leucophrys Vireo olivaceus Parula pitiayumi Myioborus miniatus Myioborus melanocephalus Basileuterus signatus Basileuterus coronatus Conirostrum albifrons Chlorospingus ophthalmicus Hemispingus frontalis Thlypopsis ruficeps Creurgops dentata Piranga flava Thraupis episcopus Thraupis cyanocephala Thraupis bonariensis Pipraeidea melanonota Euphonia laniirostris Euphonia mesochrysa Tangara xanthocephala Tangara ruficervix Tangara cyanicollis Tangara nigroviridis Tangara vassorii Tangara viridicollis Dacnis cayana Diglossa sittoides Atlapetes tricolor Zonotrichia capensis Saltator aurantiirostris Pheucticus aureoventris Psarocolius atrovirens Carduelis magellanica	C U U F F F F C Fe Cm? C F C F F U F R R F C U F R F F U F C F C F U F U U R F F C F C F F U F F C F F F C F F F C U F F C C F F U F F U F U F C C F F F U C F C R U F U U F C F U F C