Fantastic species and where to find them ;-)

To underline the large diversity of wildlife in the Manu National Park in Perú we did a list of the animals we saw while we were on our 8-day trip.

Mammals

Bolivian Black Hat Squirrel Monkey

Toppins Titi Monkey

Red Howler Monkey

Light colored Howler Monkey

Tschudi‘s Woolly Monkey

Black Spider Monkey

A Black Spider Monkey watching us

Bearded Emperor Monkey

Wedel‘s saddleback tamarin

Shock-headed capuchin

Large-headed capuchin

Jaguar (black)

(Margay) Y

Giant otter

Three Giant Otters fighting for a fish

Southern Amazon Red Squirrel

Andean Fox

Brazilian Tapir

Brazilian rabbit

Reptiles and amphibians

Black Caiman

A black Caiman in the Cocha Salvador

White Caiman

Cat-eye snake

Common Mussurana

Spotted river turtle

Sideneck river turtle

Amazon race runner

2 other kinds of lizards

Jaguar Monkey frog

Common milk frog

On the lakeside there were hundreds of these small frogs

Giant gladiator tree frog

This Giant gladiator tree frog is the largest frog in Manu NP

Madre de Dios thin toed frog

Three-striped poison frog

Yurimaguas poison frog

Do you see the frog hiding in the trumpet leave?

Crested forest toad

This crested forest toad is very hard to find on the ground

Cane toad

a Crab

Insects and spiders (selection)

Bullet ant

Fire ant

Leafcutter ant

Army ant

Stick insect (small/medium/gigantic)

A gigantic stick insect – it was about 30-40 centimeters long

Grasshoppers and crickets

Blue electric morpho butterfly

Cockroaches

Caterpillars

Jumping spider

A jumping spider close-up – “They don’t jump at you”, Carlos said. He was right.

Banana spider

Brownback tarantula

Wolf spider

Golden silk arjuper

Orbid webbing spider

Social spiders

Hornback spider

Clearwings butterfly

Uropijio

Dragonflies

Snails

Hundreds of moths and millions of mosquitoes

Our guide Carlos helped us identify the animals we saw

Birds

Jabiru

Orinoco Goose

Muscovy duck

Sungrebe

Speckled chachalaca

Andean guan

Spix‘s Guan

Blue-Throathed Piping-Guan

Festive coquette (a Hummingbird)

Razor-billed Currasow

Beotropic cormorant

Anhinga

Cocoi Heron

Fasciated tiger heron

Boat-billed heron!! (Very rare)

Capped heron

Roseate spoonbill

Great egret

Cattle egret

Limpkin

Snowy egret

Horned screamer

Black vulture

Turkey vulture

Greater yellow-headed vulture

King vulture

Swallow-tailed kite

Plumbeous kite

Laughing falcon

Great black-hawk

Black-coralled hawk

Roadside hawk

Broad-winged hawk

Nighthawk

Nighthawks on a tree log in the Manu River

Osprey

Black Caracara

Wattled Jacana

Pied lapwing

Southern lapwing

Large-billed tern

Black skimmer

Pale-vented pidgeon

Blue-and-yellow macaw

Scarlet macaw

Red-and-green macaw

Red-and-green macaws at the lick, getting minerals to digest their food

Chestnut-fronted macaw

White-eyed parakeet

Dusky-headed parakeet

Basked-headed parakeet

Tui parakeet

Blue-headed parrot

Yellow-crowned parrot

Orange cheeked parrot

Mealy parrot

Masked tytira

Greater Ani

Smooth-billed ani

Black-billed thrush

Hoatzin

Lyre-tailed nightjar

Sand-colored nighthawk

White-collored Swift

Golden-tailed sapphire (Hummingbird)

White-chinned sapphire

Gray-breasted sabrewing

Goalden-headed quetzal

Rufous motmot

Striolated puffbird

Black-fronted nunbird

Swallow-wing

Chestnut-eared aracari

White-throated toucan

Yellow-tufted woodpecker

Spot-breasted woodpecker

Crimson-crested woodpecker

Andean flicker

Lineated woodpecker

Cinnamon flightcatcher

Gray-capped flightcatcher

Lemon-browed flightcatcher

Great kiskadee

Social flightcatcher

Boat-billed flightcatcher

Lesser kiskadee

Long-tailed tyrant

Tropical kingbird

Andean cock-of-the-rock

White-winged swallow

Black-capped donacobius

Magpie tanager

Silver-beaked tanager

Three-stripped hemispingus

Blue-gray tanager

Blue-and-black tanager

Blue-necked tanager

Swallow tanager

Turquoise tanager

Grass-grewn tanager

Blue-black grassquit

Red-capped cardinal

Spectacled redstart

Dusky green oropondula

Russet-backed oropendula

Crested oropendula

Yellow-rumped cacique

Giant cowbird

Chestnut finch

Pale-tailed barbthroat

Grayish saltator

Yellow brow sparrow

Social flycatcher

Ruddy ground dove

Double colour seedeater

Strirated heron

Black-fronted nunbird

Squirrel cuckoo

Ferrugginous Pygmy-Owl