• Animals in Peru

    Extreme Bird Love, That

    Here in Lima, the trees and rooftops are overrun with cuculis — plumpish grey morning doves who coo mournfully, mate in treetops, and shit absolutely everywhere. With all this cuculi mess around, it’s easy for a Limena to forget that Peru itself is considered a birder’s paradise. I certainly forgot. Then I read an article in last Sunday’s El Comercio about “the four types of foreign tourists” in Peru and what they like to spend their money on, and of the four prototypical turistas, one of them was The Birdlover. Otherwise known as Wads ‘o Cash. Birdlovers, the article claimed, spend more than other visitors to Peru — more than Archaeology/Cultural Tourists,…