On a rainy Saturday morning at 8:20 am. near the gardening  house and orchid trail II, gardeners reported by radio to our ecology personnel the sighting, of what seemed to be a toucanet, but when reaching the site this bird flew off to the top of the mountain. Later that day at 12:45 pm. we heard a rather strange and strong tweet coming from the maintenance warehouse, we went running with our binoculars and cameras, and surprise!, there it was, resting on a “pacaemono” tree branch (Inga adenophylla) chirping loudly, a Blue-banded Toucanet (Aulacorhynchus coeruleicinctis). This bird is very rarely observed in the area, the staff passing by could not believe that there were toucanets in Machu Picchu.

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