Top 5 Wildlife Species You Can Spot in Tambopata National Reserve!
This southeastern Peru destination offers a safe haven for biodiversity and a thrilling wildlife experience. Stay in an Amazon lodge Peru or join Puerto Maldonado rainforest tours to see some of the most interesting creatures that the region has in store for you. Here, we bring you five extraordinary species you can encounter as you venture into this Amazonian treasure. 1. Scarlet Macaw Scarlet macaw-the Amazonian icon, with beautiful plumage, is a colorful highlight during a visit to the Chuncho Macaw Clay Lick. Hundreds of them come here to feed from the mineral-rich cliffs made of clay that detoxify the poisonous foods they intake. Seeing the colorful flocks of birds swirling about in the sky and touching down in groups at daybreak is a treat no visitor to Tambopata National Reserve can miss. 2. Giant River Otter Of all the giant river otters' remaining populations, Tambopata is home to one of them. Cute and endangered, these are commonly seen in oxbow lakes and rivers that ...