Pepe Rojas is a field ornithologist and one of leading birdwatching guides of Peru. He grew up watching and (more importantly) listening to West Peruvian Doves, Long-tailed Mockingbirds, and Rufous-collared Sparrows on the Pacific coast of his native Lima, Peru, where he later attended forestry school at the National Agricultural University of La Molina. In the early 1990’s while a forestry student in Lima, Pepe traveled to the Tambopata region of southeastern Peru as part of a team of researchers studying the reproductive behavior of macaws. During the almost ten years he spent as a resident bird guide in this region of upper Amazonia, he honed his knowledge of the local avifauna, helped train new guides, and assisted professional filmmakers and photographers form National Geographic, BBC among others on a wide variety of projects. (As a matter of fact, he plays a character in a BBC production named “Birdman of the Amazon” which is part of the series, Wild and Dangerous.) By the turn of the century, he was among the foremost naturalist-guides to what is generally regarded the most bird-rich region on Earth.