Trip extensions For those course participants interested in a post-course birding experience or two, Fauna Forever and CORBIDI can help arrange modestly-priced sidetrips and extensions to:

1) Paracas National Reserve (a shorebird and rocky-island birding paradise if ever there was one, including the option to look for Pacific pelagics);

2) Lomas de Lachay National Reserve (an oasis for birds located on the misty, western edge of the Andes about 100 km north of Lima);

3) Pantanos de Villa Reserved Zone (a wetland and Important Bird Area located a mere 40 minutes from downtown Lima which hosts numerous resident and migrant bird species);

4) Birds of Arequipa Andes, coastal wetlands and beaches (includes the Salinas and Aguada Blanca National Reserve, the Lagunas de Mejia National Sanctuary and the Arequipa Pacific ocena shoreline between Mejia and Moyendo;

5) Inambari cloud and elfin forest (a new birding destination accessed by highway from Puerto Maldonado).

Ask us also for our recommendations regarding trips to Cusco, Machu picchu, Lake Titicaca, Arequipa and dosens of other Peru tourism destinations.