Birds > Strigiformes & Owls
The Long-whiskered Owlet (Xenoglaux loweryi) is an extraordinary, diminutive nocturnal raptor endemic strictly to the misty, epiphyte-draped cloud forests of the northern Peruvian Andes. Occupying its own monotypic genus, Xenoglaux (meaning ‘strange owl’),...
Birds > Trochilids & Apodiformes
The Marvelous Spatuletail (Loddigesia mirabilis) is one of the most anatomically extraordinary and geographically restricted hummingbirds on Earth, found exclusively within the Utcubamba River valley high in the cloud forest Andes of northern Peru. Classified as the...
