Category Archives: Peru

Slideshow: Shorebirding in Peru

Here’s Nate Senner to tell you how the last two stops in the survey of Peru’s coastline went. And we hope you’ll enjoy the slideshow, above, from eBird project leader Marshall Iliff, another member of the survey team. Here’s Nate: We were expecting great things—spectacular desert scenery and thousands of shorebirds—from our workshops around Lima, [...]

Surveying Peru’s Entire Coastline

Last time we heard from Nate Senner, he was herding godwits in Chile. Since then he’s been to Peru for a three-week stint of shorebird-identification workshops with an incredible goal: to survey the entire coastline of the country. Here’s Nate with his first installment of how things went: Twenty-five years ago, two Canadian biologists undertook [...]