Perú: Ecotraveller's Wildlife Guide

• A Photographic Guide to Birds of Peru
• Birds of Peru (Helm Field Guides)
• The Inca Trail Cusco and Machu Picchu (Inca Trail, Cusco & Machu Picchu: Includes Santa Teresa Trek,)
• The Rough Guide Map Peru
• A Neotropical Companion: An Introduction to the Animals, Plants, and Ecosystems of the New World Tropics (Second Edition)

The plates and pictures of the wildlife are good, but the book is not comprehensive. Common birds such as the orange cheeked parrot are missing. Another notable exception is the giant condor! I found that I could not rely on this book for species recognition once I discovered that it was not comprehensive.

Good Overview!, 2004-01-15
I found the book quite helpful while working in the Peruvian rainforest - it certainly is not complete and you are most likely to encounter other birds, mammals, insects and plants than those pictured in the book - but it gives you an idea of what to expect and what it could be. Biologist or people with a deep interest in species identification should try get a book on birds or mammals or what they are interested in but it is hard to get something at all or something small with lots of good and useful information. Therefore the Ecotraveller's Guide might not be perfect but it's a good help!