Gustavo Bautista
Gustavo Bautista was born and raised in Lima but has been living in Cusco since 2010. He is a birder with a passion for nature, with a background as a tour leader, specialized in ecotourism and birding. Gustavo’s interest in birds began at the age of thirteen when he traveled for the first time to the Peruvian Amazon where was amazed by the extraordinary beauty of nature in the Tambopata National Park, Peru. Since then his interest in nature and birding grew and he decided to follow studies in ecotourism. He started birding at the age of nineteen at the Pantanos de Villa Wildlife Refuge in Lima, where he undertook his first research concerning nocturnal bird vocalizations. After finishing his studies he moved to Tampopata, where he started leading bird tours for Rainforest Expeditions. He also began performing volunteer field work for several studies such as Macaw Researching, Bird Census’ in Lima and Cusco and a project about nocturnal bird behavior according to the moon phase, at the Explorer’s Inn Lodge in Tambopata. Gustavo has worked in Colombia for the NGO Proaves, and leads bird tours in Colombia and Peru.