Most bird species (national park)

Peru's Manú National Park in the Departments of Madre de Dios and Cuzco is a UNESCO World Heritage site within which an astounding 1,009 bird species have been documented since the park’s establishment in 1973.

Bolivia’s Madidi National Park, established in 1995, is a very close second-place, having recorded its 1,000th bird species in 2016.

Peru has the second-greatest bird diversity as a country, with 1,861 native species according to BirdLife International as of 2020; it is only surpassed by Colombia on 1,884.

Madre de Dios is a birdwatching haven, also boasting the guest lodge with the greatest number of birds logged. Since the early 1980s, ornithologists and experienced ecotour group leaders have documented 638 different bird species within a day’s walk of Amazonia Lodge, located approximately 200 km (125 mi) north-east of the city of Cusco.