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High Andes - Cordillera Vilcanota

Fieldwork with the highest frogs in the world in Southern Peru.

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The marbled water frog (Telmatobius marmoratus) is one of the two highest elevation frogs in the world, both of which occur in the Cordillera Vilcanota. A threatened species declining from harvesting by humans, destruction of their habitat, introduction of invasive trout, and the chytrid disease.

A pair of Andean geese (Neochen melanoptera) & an Andean crested duck (Lophonetta specularioides alticola) wander across the puna habitat together. Both of these waterfowl are restricted to high Andean habitat and rely on the bofedales (andean peat bogs) for survival.

A juvenile mountain caracara (Phalcoboenus megalopterus) a common bird of prey of the Andean Puna ecosystem.