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ABRA MALAGA HOT-SPOT BIRDING
- Tour Type
- Recommended Ages
Welcome to all ages visitators
- Duration of the tour
FULL DAY
- Group size
From 1 to 15 people
Tour Details
General Information
Place where the tour begins: Cusco
Place where the tour end: Cusco
Tour Date: April – December
Tour Duration: Full day
Expected Birds Species: 70 to 100
Expected Mammal Species: 02
Altitude: 3500 mt / 11482 ft (Cusco) – 4200mt / 13779 ft. (Abra Málaga)
Photographic Opportunity: Excellent
Local Guides: Birding Guide. Miguel Garcia
Other staff: For 02 or more guests catering staff will be provided for picnic breakfasts and lunches in prime birding locations.
Trip Grade: taught Hikes (Royal Cinclodes way), gentle hikes (rest of the way)
You should prepare for certain travel factors in Peru, A few of the most important are elevation.
Insurance
We strongly advise that your travel insurance policies include medical assistance and evacuation – we believe that it is ‘better to be safe than sorry!’ Should you decline to do so, we must state that we will in no way accept responsibility for expenses incurred should you require medical attention/evacuation while on holiday with us.
Clothing
This trip departs in Cusco which is generally a dry and cool time of the year but you may encounter light rain or damp condition. Evenings may be cool and you will certainly have many early mornings starts so will need some warm layers. The key to being comfortable is to adopt a system of several layers rather than one item of bulky warm clothing. Sun hats are an essential item, with a wide brim and something to protect your neck. Temperatures can drop very quickly in the evening and early morning and at altitude and you may again need to put on a number of layers.
Equipment and Accessories
- Small day pack
- Sunglasses and retainers If you wear glasses,
- Anti-bacterial hand gel is very useful for washing hands when no water is
- Birdwatching staff
Brief Itinerary
Itinerary
DAY 01
ABRA MALAGA HOT-SPOT BIRDING
This bird watching trip aims to have a record of quite restricted and endemic birds that would only be possible to achieve in this hot spot, for that we will leave from Cusco early in our private bus and we will begin our birding looking for the endemic birds that live at the base of the high pass such as: Creamy-crested Spinetail, Chestnut-breasted Mountain-finch, White-tuffted Sumbean, Great saphirewing, Tawny-rumped tyrannulet, Tuffted Tit-tyrant, Rust-and-yellow Tanager, Tyrian Metaltail, etc.
As we go up the route, we will find birds restricted to steppe landscapes such as: Junin Canastero, Puna Pipit, Streak-backed Canastero, Streak-throated Canastero, Creamy-winged cinclodes, etc.
From the high pass there is a trail that leads to Polylepis relic forest where you can observe the Ones most restricted to this specialized habitat like: White-browed Tit-Spinetail, Ash-breasted Tit-Tyrant, Tawny Tit-Spinetail, Red- rumped Bush-Tyrant, Giant Conebill, Puna Tapaculo, etc. To reach these birds it will be a tough walk of approximately four hours in total, due to the altitude at which you walk and the unevenness of the route.
Then we will continue our birding towards the cloud forest area, there we will find quite colorful birds. It is also in this area possible to see mixed flocks that are made up of different species in order to be more successful in the search for their food, we could see: Scarlet- bellied Mountain-Tanager, Three-striped Hemispingus, Parodi's Hemispingus, Drab Hemispingus, Unstreaked Tit-Tyrant; the Flowerpiercers (Diglosas) are especially frugivorous that feed nectar of flowers too, we can see there; Rusty-Flowerpiercer Flowerpiercer, Mustached-Flowerpiercer, Black-throated-Flowerpiercer and also will have chance to see also endemic ones in this Cloud Forest like: Cusco Brushfinch, Parodi’s Hemispingus, Inca Flycatcher, Inca Wren, etc.
So, we can also see many other species that inhabit more in the cloud forest such as: hummingbirds and one of the most conspicuous is the Sword-Billed Hummingbird, Amethyst-throated Sunangel, Saphire-vented Puffleg, Rufous-capped Thornbill, Purple-backed Thornbill, etc.
Later we return to Cusco to arrive at over eight to our hotel.
What's Included
What does it include?
Licensed birding Tour Guide
All activities mentioned in the itinerary.h
All meals.
Bottled water throughout the trip
Ground Transportation.
All entrance fees
What is not included?
Travel Insurance (essential)
Laundry, phone calls and alcoholic drinks.
Personal Expenses.
Charges incurred because of circumstances beyond our control
Gratuities.
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