Birding Tour Ecuador Southern 11 days
Birding Tour Southern Ecuador 2024 – 2025, 11 days
Endemics and specialties. Amazon Basin-Nangaritza River-Maycu Reserve-Tropical. Cloud Forest- Highlands; and Choco Region.
Places: Tapichalaca Reserve (2500 m – 8200 feets). Zamora Chinchipe Province – Bombuscaro River – Podocarpus National Park – Copalinga Reserve (900 m – 2950 feets.). Yankuam Lodge – Maycu Reserve – Nangaritza River. Saraguro: Cloud Forets (2400 -3200 m) Acacana: 3400 m. 11154 feets. Cerro de Arcos: 3600 m. – 11811 feets. Buenaventura Reserve – Choco Region: (500-1300 m, 1640-4265 feets).
Target Birds: Long-wattled UmbrellaBird. Jocotoco Antpitta, Andean cock-of-the-rock, many Tanagers and Hummingbirds
Arrival in Quito 1 night before
Day 1Flight Quito – Loja at the Catamayo Airport (50 minutes flight), head to Buenaventura Reserve 2 nights
Day 2 Buenaventura Reserve
Day 3 Buenaventura Reserve and head to Tapichalaca Reserve 2 nights. Cloud forest.
Day 4 Tapichalaca Reserve
Day 5 Tapichalaca Reserve and head To Copalinga Reserve and Lodge. 2 nights
Day 6 Copalinga Reserve. Podocarus National Park
Day 7 Copalinga Reserve and head to Yankuam Lodge – Maycu Reserve- Nangaritza River
Day 8 Yankuam Lodge – Maycu Reserve
Day 9 Maycu Reserve and head to Copalinga 1 night
Day 10 Copalinga and flight to Quito at 5 pm.