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NORTHERN PERU BIRDING PARADISE
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NORTHERN PERU BIRDING PARADISE This special Peru birding tour will take you to unexplored newly accessible locations. Most birding tours take you to the southern tourist Mecca near Cuzco, or to Ecuador, but neither offers our world’s most extreme endemic zones. It stands to reason that Peru’s tropical northern cross-section would offer more and better varieties despite not having a promotion budget to hype these. This trip will start in the desert coast of Lambayeque, across the high Andes, and end in the incredible jungle of Tarapoto. We will visit the most important places that Valqui mentions in his book. Peru has more bird varieties than N. America and Europe combined. This program contains the best accommodations offered in the area.
Day 1 Lima – Chiclayo Airport pick up in Chiclayo. Chiclayo is Peru’s fourth largest city located in desert coast where the climate is warm and sunny almost all year. We will visit Private Reserve of Chaparri seeking out the specialties such as White-winged Guans, Tumbes Tyrants, White-headed Brush-Finches, Scarlet-backed Woodpecker and other endemics of the Tumbesian region. Night in Gran Hotel Chiclayo. (BL) Day 2 Chiclayo – Olmos Early transfer to Reserve of Batan Grande these dense old mesquite have been declared archaeological and ecological sanctuary. This beautiful birding site is 13,400 hectares, the biggest forest on the Peruvian Coast. Several species are found here as the Peruvian Plantcutter, Necklaced Spinetail, Rufous Flycatcher, Coastal Miner, Supercilliaried Wren, Black-faced ibis,Savvana Hawk, Pearl Kite, Aplomado Falcon, Peruvian Pygmy-Owl, Shot-tailed Woodstar, Sacarlet-backed Woodpecker, Streak-headed Woodcreeper, Pacific Hornero, Necklaced Spinetail, and others… we will continue birding and probably find Gray and Gold Warbler, Sooty-capped Flycatcher, Gray and White Tyrannulet, Tumbre Tyrant (endemic), Sooty-capped Flycatcher among others. Night in a local hotel. (B, L, D) Day 3 Olmos Olmos is well known for the relatively recent re-discovery of the White-winged Guan, first discovered en the 1870s and not seen again for 100 years. This extremely range-restricted guan has been found now in several valleys. We have all day to explore the canyons and likely we will see Henna-hooded Foliage-gleaner, Elegant Crescentchest, White-headed Brush-finch, Henna-hooded Foliage-glea, White-winged, Tumbes Hummingbird (endemic) Red-masked Parakeet, plumbeous-backed Thursh, Cinereous Finchs (endemic), White-Winged Guan. Transfer to the city of Olmos where we will spend the night in a local hostel. (B,BL,D)
Day 4 Olmos – Jaen Today we will continue to Jaen, after passing Abra Porculla although not in the dry forest region, this more humid montane area is not far away and has some very interesting birds that add to the Olmos birds. We will stop in different key locations to observe the local endemics. Birds that we may see are: Yellow-bellied and Black and White Seedeaters, Andean Tinamou, Black-cowled Saltator, Elegant Crescentchest, White-winged and Bay Crowned Brush-Finch’s Chapman’s Antshrike, , Rufous-necked and Henna-hooded Foliage-Gleaners, Andean Tinamou, Peruvian Slaty-Antshrike, Spot-throated Hummingbird and Chinchipe Spinetail, Gray-chinned Hermit, Ecuadorean Piculet, Rufous-necked Foliage Gleaner. In the afternoon we will bird near the Monastery, located just outside Jaen. Night in Jaen hotel. (B, BL, D)
Day 5 Jaen – Choctamal Early start to look for Little Inca Finch and several Maranon endemics. Later continue on to Choctamal and night in Choctamal Marvelous Spatuletail Lodge. Hot tub and dinner overlooking Fortress Kuelap, the largest building of the Americas. (B,L, D)
Day 6 Choctamal Huiquilla Forest Early start with birding around Choctamal Marvelous Spatuletail Lodge. There are 328 varieties of hummingbirds found only in the Americas, and less than 20 venture into the United States. The world’s most spectacular and mysterious one is the Marvelous Spatuletail (Loddigesia mirabilis) with less than 1000 estimated in existence, and can be seen daily at this lodge. Near the lodge you can look for more birds in Choctamal: Timamiformes, Tinamidae, Nothoprocta sp. “perdiz” Tinamou, Galliforme, Cracidae, Penelope ortoni “sachahuashpa”, ”pava de monte” Guan Columbiformes, Columbidae, Columba fasciata albilinea “Torcaza” Band-tailed Pigeon Leptotila sp. Dove, Ciconiformes, Cathartidae, Cathartes aura “gallinazo cabeza roja” Turkey vultur, Coragyps atratus “shuca”, “gallinazo cabeza negra” Black vulture, Falconiformes, Accipitridae, Buteo albicaudatus “Gavilan” White-tailed hawk, Falconidae, Falco sparverius “Cernicalo” Common kestrel, Strigiformes Strigidae Glaucidium brasilianum “Talacua” Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl, Caprimulgiformes Caprimulgidae, Chordeiles sp. Nighthawk, Micropodiformes, Trochilidae, Colibri coruscans Sparkling Violetear,. Night in Choctamal Marvelous Spatuletail Lodge.. (B, BL, D)
Day 7 Choctamal – Kuelap – Choctamal forest Today you will be free to explore the surroundings of the lodge in the morning at your own pace. After lunch we will head to the ancient Fortress Kuelap located only at 40 minutes from the Choctamal Marvelous Spatuletail Lodge. Birds around this fortress are: Aglaeactis cupripennis Shining Sunbeam, Chlorostilbon sp. Emerald, Thalurania sp. Woodnymph, Chalybura sp. Plumeleteer, Psittaciformes, Psittacidae, Aratinga wagleri scarlet-fronted parakeet, Piciformes, Picidae, Piculus sp. Woodpecker, Passeriformes, Tyrannidae, Contopus virens, Eastern Wood-Pewee Myarchus tuberculifer Dusky-capped Flycatcher, Todirostrum cinereum common tody-flycatcher, Hirundinidae, Notiochelidon cyanoleuca “golondrina” Blue-and-white Swallow Turdidae, Turdus fuscater Great Thrush, Turdus sp Trush, Troglodytidae, Troglodytes aedon House wren, Icteridae, Cacicus sp. Cacique, Vireonidae, Vireo olivaceus Red-eyed Vireo, Fringilidae, Dendroica sp. Warbler, Vermivora sp. “reinita” Warbler, Pheucticus chrysopeplus Yellow Grosbeak, Emberizidae, Zonotrichia capensis Rufous-collared Sparrow, Certhiidae, Donacobius atricapillus Black-capped Donacobius among others. Night in Choctamal Marvelous Spatuletail Lodge (B, L, D)
Day 8 Choctamal–Pomacochas Transfer to Pomacochas & La Florida located at the 326 Km between Chiclayo and Tarapoto, vultures, herons are divisible on the way to Pomacochas , check into the Pomacochas hotel. The rest of the afternoon if time allows we will be looking for the famous Marvelous Spatuletail around the area and other birds like Black Crested Warbler, Andean Lapwing, Grassland yellow-finch, Silver-backed and Blue-capped Tanagers, flowerpiercers, and Green-throated, Smoke-colored Pewee, Purple-throated Sunangel, Three-striped and Russet-crowned Warblers, Green-tailed Trainbearer, Smoke-colored Pewee, Sierran Elaenia, Tawny-rumped Tyrannulet, Streak-necked Flycatcher among others. Night in Pomacochas. (B, BL, D)
Day 9 Abra Patricia We will continue our exploration in the main points around Abra Patricia, this part can be muddy, make sure to bring your boots. Over 400 species has been recorded in Abra Patricia among them: Owl & Owlets, Toucan, Tiranidos , Guans, Royal Sunangel, Tapaculo, the little-known Ochre-fronted Antpitta, Cinnamon-breasted Tody-Tyrant, Bar-winged Wood-Wren, Chestnut-breasted Coronet and Long-tailed Sylph, flycatchers, vireos and warblers, the little-known Ochre-fronted Antpitta, endemic Yellow-scarfed Tanager, Cinnamon-breasted Tody-Tyrant, Bar-winged Wood-Wren and the splendid White-capped Tanager, the little-known Ochre-fronted. Night in Moyobamba, Puerto Mirador hotel that has a lot of vegetation and we can observe some tropical birds, flowers, etc. from this hotel strategically located in the shores of the Mayo River. . (B, L) Day 10 Tingana Reserve All day to explore the reserve and birds along our river cruise where we may see: Herons, Kite, Woodpecker, Buff-thrioated, Woodcreeper, and Silvered Antbird, Sender-billed Kite, and the five species of kingfishers, Horned Screamer and Limpkin, Agami Heron, Boat-billed Heron, White-banded Swallow, Variable seedeate and others Night in Moyobamba, Puerto Mirador hotel that has a lot of vegetation and we can observe some tropical birds, flowers, etc. from this hotel strategically located in the shores of the Mayo River. (B, BL) Day 11 Morro de la Calzada Day 12 Tarapoto We will go on the road towards Yurimaguas into the lower Amazon rainforest to see the Plumbeous Euphonia, Northern-Slaty-Antshrike, Swalow-tailed Kite, Sulphur-bellied Tyrant-Manakin, Pavonine Quetzal. The rare Dotted Tanager can be seen here. White-necked Jacobin, Painted Parakeet,Ocellated Woodcreeper, Green Honeycrepper, Scale-backed Antbird, Striolated Puffbird, Collared Trogon, Bluish-fronted Jacamar, Gilded Barbet,Blue Ground-Dove, Golden-collared Toucanet, Speckled Chachalaca. Return to Tarapoto for the afternoon flight to Lima. (B, L) THE TOUR INCLUDES: NOT INCLUDED: |
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