Peru - Day 19; Chunco Lodge & Puerto Maldonado

   For our final morning at Chunco Lodge we walked the trails around the lodge for an hour before breakfast at 08:00, after which we took the boat and taxi back to Puerto Maldonado. The morning walk was quite lively, with Striated Antbird being a new species for me, where Rufous-crowned Nunlet was probably the standout otherwise. The walk was enjoyable with sounds all around us, and a small tinamou that ran across the path in front of us was brilliant to see even if I could not identify it, its stupid little legs going like the clappers.

  After breakfast we packed and parted ways with Chunco Lodge. We returned to Puerto Maldonado around 11:30 which was unfortunately a little too early to check in to our hotel, the Wasi Hotel Ecolodge on the banks of the river. There were a few birds in the grounds to keep the spirits up whilst we waited, although nothing spectacularly rare. A Scarlet Flycatcher was probably the highlight.

  We were informed that the lodge had Brown-throated Three-toed Sloths on the premises, and I planned to spend the afternoon searching for them once the heat died down. In the meantime we visited the pool and bar, which is where we happened to spot one of the sloths showing very well. A quick walk back up the stairs to the room for the camera and I was able to get some very nice photos of the second sloth species of our trip, meaning no search would be required later in the afternoon.

  It was early to bed after a pizza dinner, with an early start to reach our next destination, the Los Amigos Biological Station, deep in the amazon!