These are images of birds presented in my novel, Parallels That Cross. Hover on green names for images of actual species. Those in blue are fictional birds that I imagined as possible for the novel. Species are arranged alphabetically so that you can more rapidly locate a particular bird. I obtained these images from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Macaulay Library through ebird where additional information, such as geographic range and songs, can be found. See Birds of Peru (Schulenberg et. al., 2010) for a field guide to all bird species in Peru.
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Antpittas (fictional new species)
Chestnut Antpitta
(similar to fictional new antpitta species seen when Mica and Clay first meet)
© Nick Athanas: Macaulay Library
Pale-billed Antpitta (similar to fictional new antpitta species seen by Clay near the end of novel)
© Fabio Olmos : Macaulay Library
Golden Metaltail (fictional new species)
Fire-throated Metaltail (similar to fictional new hummingbird seen when Mica and Clay first meet)
© Peter Kaestner: Macaulay Library
Long-whiskered Owlet (This owl is real but I gave it a fictional scientific name in the novel, Xenoglaux lowelli, similar to its real name, Xenoglaux loweryi)
© Andrew Spencer: Macaulay Library
Nightingale thrush (fictional new species)
Orange-billed Nightingale-thrush (similar to fictional new nightingale collected by Clay near the end of novel)
© David Hollie: Macaulay Library
© Bill Hill: Macaulay Library
Rothman’s Tapaculo (fictional new species)
White-browed Tapaculo (similar to my fictional new tapaculo, which has rufous colors where this real one has white)
© Andrés Terán: Macaulay Library
Xenops-like fictional new species
Streaked Xenops (similar to fictional new species seen near Clay’s first camp)
© Alexander Lees: Macaulay Library