Gunnar Engblom

Birder, biologist, runner, former punkrock sing/song-writer, daddy, husband and owner, manager and guide of Kolibri Expeditions based in Lima, Peru - that is me in a nutshell. I have been living in Lima since 1998, but was spending several months every year in Peru since 1990, travelling, birding, guiding and surveying Polylepis forests in the High Andes. I am particularly interested in threatened birds and I have conducted surveys for a number of threatened species such as Peruvian Plantcutter, Titicaca Grebe, Golden-backed Mountain-Tanager and White-bellied Cinclodes. I always believed that birding tourism can make a difference to local communiities and inspire to protect the habitat where threatened species are, if the same community recieves some tangible benefit. I blog at http://www.kolibriexpeditions.com/birdingperu/blog/