Tour Overview: 

Tour starting from Santa Rosa. June 8 to 16th

Participants_ Leonid and Irina Finkelstein
Local Guide Southern Ecuador: Pablo Andrade.

Itinerary.
June 8. Flight Quito Santa Rosa.

Santa Rosa, Arenillas Reserve, Puerto Jelí.

June 9. Coastal Wetlands and Dry Forests: Arenillas Reserve, La Tembladera Lagoon.
First we visited Puerto Jelí and some small ponds in the surrounding area of Santa Rosa, then laguna la Tembladera, Reserva Arenillas, and some small ponds in the surrounding area of Santa Rosa. Chacras near the border with Peru; by the way since in Puerto Jeli is not easy to get a place where to have a breakfast we went to Hosteria, lodge El Chozón, where we had a delicious breakfast after visiting the Arenillas Reserve, which is very close by. In the afternoon head to Buenaventura Reserve.

Buenaventura Reserve. Umbrellabird Lodge:

June 10, 11, 12. Buenaventura. Reserve. We spent three days Birding at the Buenaventura Reserve, exploring its lush mid-elevation forests and staying at Umbrellabird Lodge

Cerro de Arcos Remote Forest, Saraguro: 

June 12: Cerro de Arcos. Saraguro. We ascend to the high-altitude Cerro de Arcos (3600 meteres), a remote paramo habitat, in search of the Endemic Blue-throated Hillstar.

TAPICHALACA RESERVE.

June 12, 13: Tapichalaca Reserve.
At the Tapichalaca Reserve, we stayed at Casa Simpson Lodge and focused on key montane bird species, including the Jocotoco Antpitta.

COPALINGA RESERVE.

June 14, 15, 16, Copalinga Reserve.
Our final days were spent at the Copalinga Reserve and the Bombuscaro sector of Podocarpus National Park, located in the eastern foothills near Zamora (900 m elevation)