Birding Trip report sacha lodge and southern Ecuador 2022
Northern Ecuador. Yanacocha Reserve, MIndo Area, Amazon Basin Napo River – Sacha Lodge (227 m / 745 feet ).
Southern Ecuador: Buenaventura Reserve (Choco Region – west foothill), Tapichalaca Reserve (cloud forest), Copalinga Reserve (tropical forest – east foothill)
14 nights, 15 days
Participants: Paul Howard Gurn, Paula Susan Pariseau, Eileen Marie Sinnott, Robert Allan Pariseau.
Leaded: by Pablo Andrade.
Sacha Lodge Birding Trip 2022
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Itinerary
Day 1. nov 14 Arrival to Quito
Day 1. nov 15. Yanacocha Reserve
Day 2. nov 16. Flight Quto Coca and Boat trip to Sacha Lodge. Napo River
Day 3. nov 17. Sacha Lodge.
Day 4. nov 18. Sacha Lodge
Day 5 nov 19. Sacha Lodge and flight Coca – Quito
Day 6 nov 20 Flight: Quito – Loja in the mroning and head to Tapichalaca Reserve, 3 nights. Casa Simpson Lodge.
Day 7 nov 21 Tapichalaca Reserve, Casa Simpson
Day 8.nov 22 Tapichalaca Reserve
Day 9 nov 23 Tapichalaca Reserve, and head to Copalinga Reserve. 3 nights.
Day 10 nov 24 Copalinga Reserve, Podocarpus National Parl.
Day 11 nov 25 Copalinga – Podocarpus National Park
Day 12 nov 26 Copalinga and head to Buenaventura Reserve. Umbrella Bird Lodge.
Day 13 nov 27 Bunaventura Reserve.
Day 14 nov 28 Buenaventura Reserve . Laguna la Tembladera
Day 15 nov 29 Buenaventura and head to Catamayo in the afternoon. Flight back to Quito. 5pm.
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Birding Trip Ecuador 2022 Exploraves
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This is just a brief summary of this trip that started in Quito picking up the passengers at the Whydam Hotel at 5h30 and then to Yanacocha Reserve where our guide Patrico with our driver started this amazing experience at the highlands of Yanacocha Reserve. On nov 16th the trip continued towards Sacha Lodge by flying 45 minutes to Coca, town of Puerto Francisco de Orellana, where our local guide met the group and taken to the town docks. Here a coverd motorized canoe took the people on a journeys of 2 1/2 hour, 50 mile(80 kilometer) trip down the sediment – rich waters of the Napo, the largest river in Ecuadorian Amazonia. During the ride spoted handsome shorebirds such as herons, kingfishers, spoonbills ans ospreys. After a 4 days of staying in Sacha the group flew back to Quito, and then the next day they took a flight to Loja to the Catamayo airport where will continue our trip visiting the most important private reserves, lodges and ecosistems in southern Ecuador. Here in soutthern I met the group for this fantastic bird experience.
Among the hundreds of birds we saw are some of the most remarkables such as the Harpy Eagle, Black & White Hawk-eagle, Slender-footed Tyrannulet, Zigzag Heron, Chestnut-bellied (Agami) Heron, Red-bellied Macaw, Chestnut-fronted Macaw, Crested Owl, Black-and white Owl, Andean cock-of-the-rock, Silvered Antbird, Esmeraldas Antbird, Plum throated Cotinga. Double-toothed Kite, Jocotoco Antpitta; Long-wattled Umbrellabird, Amazonian Umbrellabird, El Oro Parakeet; Horned Screamer, Coppery-chested Jacamar, Black-streaked Puffbird,
Testimonial birding Tour 2023
Here’s a brief testimonial about you and our tour:
“We had a very good tour with Pablo (Andrade). He was extremely knowledgeable about where to find the “good” birds, and he knew the various species by sound-song, and calls. Pablo could spot birds with a facility we didn’t have, plus he had a laser pointer to show us where any specific bird was, often in the thick bushes or higher up in tall trees. It was uncanny.
Our tour was very well organized, to Sacha Lodge, Yanacocha, and three wonderful locations in southern Ecuador: Tapichalaca (great sighting of the Jocotoco antpitta, “Panchito”), Copalinga on the eastern Andean slope, and Buenaventura in the west, where we got to see the endemic and endangered El Oro Parakeet very well.
If you’re looking to see a lot of species in the south of Ecuador, we can recommend Pablo.”
Paul Gurn