Clay lick usage by wild mixed-species parrot groups at the Colpa Colorado from Oct through Dec 2002–2012

This data was collected at the Colpa Colorado, a clay lick in southeastern Peru (13° 080' S, 69° 370' W), as part of a long-term monitoring project conducted by The Macaw Society (formerly known as the Tambopata Macaw Project). This data set documents the clay lick visitation rates of 12 species of parrots during the early wet season (Oct-Dec) from 2002-2012. Field assistants recorded the number of individuals of each species present on several pre-defined zones of the clay lick at regular 5-minute intervals, starting with the time when the first parrot lands on the clay lick in the morning. The vast majority of clay lick usage occurs in the early morning and this release contains data up until 9 am every day. This data set is unique for its longitudinal nature (spanning 11 years), fine-grained temporal resolution (with scans conducted every 5 minutes), and spatial resolution (with parrot numbers recorded for 11 standardized zones per scan).