2027 Study Abroad Peru

This summer, you are invited to join me in the Amazon rainforest of Peru to study biodiversity in a unique ecosystem that contains far more species per unit area than any other area on earth. More birds, more trees, more butterflies, more ants, more frogs, and more everything.  You will not just learn about biodiversity; you will experience it. We will take early morning hikes to watch screeching scarlet macaws, blue headed parrots, orange cheeked parrots, dusky-headed parakeets, and many other bird species. We will walk through the rainforest listening to the calls of howler monkeys defending their territory, the eerie whistling tinamou, and the crash of leaves as troops of capuchin monkeys, spider monkeys, and dusky titi monkeys swing from tree to tree, moving through the forest. The remoteness of the rainforest will allow you to connect more fully with cycles of life very different from that experienced in urban areas in temperate climates. You can reflect on forces that shape tropical ecosystems and examine, up close, species and processes not found anywhere else in the world.

surveys, among others.