As you may have heard, the new second edition of The Sibley Guide was published recently. Want a free copy? It’s easy, you just have to guess how many birds I saw on a recent trip to Peru. Enter your guess as a comment on this post, and the closest guess wins.
If you’d like to make a more educated guess, these are the the tours that we went on with Kolibri Expeditions:
- North Peru: Budget Birding Chiclayo to Tarapoto 8 days
- Machu Picchu and Abra Malaga overland
- Pelagic from Callao, Lima, Peru
This contest ends at 11:59pm eastern on Sunday, April 6 Wednesday, April 9. (I’ll need at least that long to figure out how many birds I actually saw!). I’ll take care of shipping if the winner is in the US or Canada. Those elsewhere are still eligible, but I may ask that you chip in some for shipping (via Paypal).
Posted by Grant McCreary on April 1st, 2014.
469!
You saw 421 species.
360 species!
523
293
They have 1800 species, so I guess you saw about 421 species
405 species
I’m guessing 427!
I’m extending the deadline to Wednesday, as I still haven’t gotten all my notes transcribed
316
426 🙂
444 species
480
375
457
510
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432
327?
557
453
463
367
From your locations I would estimate 335
I didn’t see the answer. Since we’re past the 2nd deadline, I assume the books already been awarded. but just in case, I’ll take a stab: 434.
485 if you were very, very lucky.
419
Contest closed last night. And the winner is…..actually, I’m still not sure yet 🙁
I’m almost done transcribing my notes (over 500 voice recordings) and then entering them into my listing software. I’ll post as soon as I have the answer. Thanks for your patience.
LOL! No worries. I know what it’s like to try to put all those lists together. Can’t wait to see how many you had. Are you ebirding them all?
btw Grant. I feel very confident on the Paint-billed Crake in hindsight.
It was not a Russet-crowned Crake – the common crake of rice paddies, as that would have been overall reddish-brown in color, nor Rufous-sided Crake, which would have a similar appearance.
The only species that is similar is Gray-breasted Crake which is tiny. Smaller even than Black Rail, plus it prefers grassy areas – not rice paddies.
There are previous records of Paint-billed Crake on ebird near Rioja.
And Alex has also seen it there.
@Charlie: Not ebirding them yet, but the listing software I use has an export function that is pretty easy to get them into ebird. But I still have years worth of records from GA that I need to get in!
@Gunnar: hmm. That may just bump the count up by 1
Should have it all done sometime tomorrow.
Final tally – 405 species seen (plus 5 heard only). Congratulations to Mario Pineda who got it exactly right!!!!
To put that number in perspective, before the trip I had about 850 total (with 2/3 from the U.S.). It was an amazing two weeks.
Among those 405 were 48 hummingbirds (!!), 36 tanagers (“tanagers” and hemispingus, not including flowerpiercers, etc), and 1 penguin (my first)
This is pretty cool! I was hoping I was going to be close, but never thought I would guess it exactly!
Thanks Grant!