HOTSPOTS – SOUTH PERU BIRDING EXPERIENCE

Welcome to all ages visitators
11 days / 10 nights
From 1 to 15 people

Tour Details

Why Peru?

Peru is a megadiverse country located in South America, a destination that houses Machu Picchu and a section of the Amazon rainforest, with diverse geography that includes a coastal, Andean, highland, Amazonian, and Antarctic region. It has 84 of the 117 life zones in the world, and its territory is divided into three natural regions. The coast occupies 11% of the national territory, the Sierra (Andean region) occupies 30%, and the Amazon rainforest occupies the remaining 59%. Peru is an Amazonian country. Ecotourism activities in Peru and the enjoyment of nature observation have become an increasingly popular activity in the local, national, and international market, such as birdwatching in natural environments protected by the state across the country. Imagine traveling to a country that has 1879 species of birds (SACC checklist), a country where you could find more birds than in North America and Europe combined, a country that is the first home of endemic birds throughout South America, including over four hundred species that have subspecies.

Our Peruvian tour leader is a birding expert and an accredited naturalist who will ensure that your trip through this varied and beautiful landscape is full of birding and wildlife excellence.

General Information

Trip date: From April to November  

Place where the tour begins: Lima

 Place where the tour end: Lima.

 Tour Date: from April to December

Tour Duration: 11 Days

Expected Birds Species: 400 to 500 species

Expected Mammal Species: 10 to 15

Altitude: 05 mt/ 16 ft (Lima) – 3500mt / 11482ft (Cusco)-183 m t / 600 ft (Puerto Maldonado)

Photographic Opportunity: Excellent

Local Guides: Birding Guide Miguel Garcia

Other staff: For 3 or more guests catering staff will be provided for picnic breakfasts and  lunch in prime birding locations.

Note Regarding single supplements

Single occupancy can be arranged, based on room availability and at an extra cost of US $ … per night.

Trip Grade: Gentle Hikes

You should prepare for certain travel factors in Peru, A few of the most important are elevation.

elevation of Cusco, Peru is approximately 3,399 meters or 11,152 feet above sea level, we need to be prepared to change our clothes during the trip, because we will change elevations and climes.

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.

Accommodations

It is our policy to use the best available accommodation in each location. All hotels and lodges we use are government approved registered with the Tourism organism of Peru.

Temperature April

Average Temperature in Fahrenheit and Celsius

Place High Low
Lima    
Cusco    
Madre de Dios    
     
     
     
     

Clothing

This trip departs in April 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.

Clothing Checklist

  • Walking boots for hiking
  • Comfortable shoes for camp
  • Waterproof jacket best made with breathable, waterproof
  • Fabric Waterproof over-trousers best made with breathable waterproof fabric.
  • Lightweight down jacket for colder evenings / mornings or in case of cold snap trekking trousers.
  • T-shirt / underskirts.
  • Long sleeved shirts to prevent sunburn on your arms and keep airborne biting insect at day, thermal underwear.
  • You may like to chance into this in the evening or have it to sleep in micro-fleece: warm, jacket, thick, sock, etc.
  • Sun hat whit adequate protection for your neck smart/casual clothes for air travel

Equipment and Accesories

  • Small day pack
  • Sunglasses and retainers, if you wear glasses.
  • Bring a spare pair Headlamp or
  • Bring spare batteries
  • Anti-bacterial hand gel, very useful for washing hands when no water is available

Electricity

The standard voltage in Peru is 220-240 volts. Most American appliances (except hairdryers) now have built-in convert- ers, so you only need to worry about bringing adapters. You will often find two pin sockets in bathrooms (type C). In most other rooms’ sockets are generally the round-three pin variety (type D). To be safe, take a universal travel adaptor.

Brief Itinerary

Day 01.- Lima airport – transfer to hotel in Lima – overnigh

 

Day 02.- Lima (Pucusana Fishing Port-Villa wedland)-Cusco

Day 03.- Cusco- Manu Road (Cock of the Rock Lodge)

Day 04.- Cock of the Rock Lodge around

Day 05.- Lower Manu road – Amazonia Lodge

Day 06.- Amazonia Lodge

Day 07.- Amazonia Lodge-Manu Birding Lodge

Day 08.- Manu Birding Lodge-Blanquillo Clay Lick

Day 09.- Manu Birding Lodge-Blanco Oxbow Lake

Day 10.- Manu Birding Lodge-Puerto Maldonado

Day 11.- Puerto Maldonado birding- Lima

Itinerary

DAY 01
LMA AIRPORT – TRANSFER TO HOTEL IN LIMA – Overnigh
LIMA (PUCUSANA FISHING PORT-VILLA WEDLAND)-CUSCO

This second day we will start our birding and Photography tour in Pucusana fishing Port, along the Peruvian coast Pucusana is one of the ports where you can see easier the Humboldt Penguin that is currently have population that it is declining; This fishing port is a great place to see and photograph Peruvian pelicans as well.

one of the most beautiful birds in this Port is the Inca tern, here we will see it easy and we will have also others good birds like: Belcher's Gull, Blackish Oystercatcher, Gray-Hooded Gull, Guanay Cormorant, Red-Legged cormorant, Peruvian Booby, Blue-Footed Booby, Ruddy Turnstone, etc.

After this activity we are heading to Villa Wetland, this place offers us photographs of some birds such as: Pied-Billed Grebe, Great Grebe, White-Tufted Grebe, Black-Crowned Night-Heron, Cinnamon Teal, etc.

This wetland also is refuging some shorebirds, like: the tiny sandpiper called least sandpiper and semipalmated sandpiper, Semipalmated Plover as well as another resident species in the Peruvian coast.

After to make this site and checking our flight schedule we will ahead to airport to fly to Cusco to have overnight in this wonderful city.

DAY 02
DAY 03
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CUSCO- MANU ROAD (COCK OF THE ROCK LODGE)

Early in the morning we will leave from Cusco in our private car with destiny to cock of the rock lodge, which is located in the Cloud Forest of Manu national Park in our way we make stops in strategic places to take pictures and watch some high Andean birds, and this first stop we make in the Wacarpay lake, where we can see four of The high Andean ducks that are: Puna Teal, Yellow-Billed Teal, Yellow-Billed Pintail, Cinnamon Teal, Ruddy Duck etc.

The swamp reeds is the perfect habitat for the elusive Many-colored Rush-Tyrant, Wren-Like-Rushbird and Yellow-Winged Blackbird; and the Andean vegetation is good habitat for the largest hummingbird in the world, the Giant Hummingbird and will also be our goal in this part of the trip and after this stop we will continue our trip to our lodge obviously the route is long and for sure we can continue taking photos and seeing so many more birds such as: American Kestrel, Variable Hawk, and it would also be great to see Aplomado Falcon, the route before get in to Manu National Park is a good point to see and photograph the endemic thorn tail; creamy-crested spinetail and the downhill route in the cloud forest will be a place to photograph  and make birdwatching colorful birds and mix flocks such as: Scarlet-Bellied Mountain-Tanager, Hooded Mountain-Tanager, Great Thrush, Crimson-Mantled Woodpecker, Golden-Headed Quetzal and The Crested Quetzal which is it more difficult, the route also gives us great opportunities to photograph the biggest raptors in the cloud forest such as: Solitary Eagle and Black and Chestnut Eagle.

And after all this we will arrive at our lodge.

COCK OF THE ROCK LODGE AROUND

Manu National Park, is a habitat of more than a thousand types of birds and its cloud forest is an amazing habitat of birds of many colors, here is common to see mixed flocks of tanagers of different species such as: Golden Tanager, Golden-Eared Tanager, Silver-Beaked Tanager, Paradise Tanager, Bay-Headed Tanager, Blue Necked Tanager, Spotted Tanager, etc.

Yungas Manakin are also there, Versicolored Barbet, Yellow-Throated Bush-Tanager now (Yellow-throated Chlorospingus) some of them coming down to feeders in the mornings.

the other group of impressive birds for their size and iridescent colors are the hummingbirds that we will also have in from of us to make photography, they are challenge to make photos, because they are so tiny and fast, we can have the: Violet-Fronted Brilliant, Many-Spotted Hummingbird, Sparkling violetear (seasonal migrant); Green Hermit, White-Bellied Woodstar etc.

After having enjoyed this morning of photography we will go to the surroundings of the lodge to keep doing photos and looking for birds that we can photograph and after our lunch we will leave in our private car to continue looking for more birds we will visit the Lek of the Cock of the Rock (considered our national bird);  where the males jus to dance to get a female, At nightfall we will have some opportunity to take pictures of screech-owls, and we could also have an opportunity with awesome lyre-Tailed Nightjar and then to go for our dinner at our lodge.

DAY 04
Versicolored Barbet
DAY 05
LOWER MANU ROAD - AMAZONIA LODGE

This part of the route is also interesting in altitudinal change it offers us new species of birds, in the way it will become frequent passerines like: Russet-Backed Oropendola, Blue-Headed Parrot, Chestnut-Fronted Macaw etc.

The tropical kingbird is common and the mixed flocks are combined with birds of medium and low canopy and we can enjoy some species like: Blue Dacnis, Blue-Necked Tanager, Black-faced Dacnis, Black-Fronted Nunbird, Long-Tailed tyrant, Plumbeous Kite, Black-Throated Antbird, Golden-Bellied Warbler, Bluish-Fronted Jacamar etc.

We will arrive to port of Atalaya and from there we will take a motor boat to make a trip to Amazon lodge. We will arrive quickly and at the lodge we will have the afternoon to be able to take pictures of hummingbirds in the feeders of the lodge, the species of hummingbirds will be different from those we have seen in the cloud forest of the Manu National Park here we can see flash species like: Golden-Tailed Sapphire, Great-Breasted Sabrewing, White-Necked Jacobin, Gould's Jewelfront, Rufous-Crested Coquette, and we have here great possibility to see the endemic Koepcke's Hermit and the jungle surrounding to the lodge also offers canopy species that we can see and photograph.

AMAZONIA LODGE

The lodge is located in the tropical rain forest of the Manu Biosphere Reserve. will be our place to make bird watching and photography today, here also the morning is good tame for shooting hummingbirds in the garden whit feeders such as: Fork-Tailed Woodnymph, Gray-Breasted Sabrewing, also have the possibility to see the tiny one’s Rufous-Crested Coquette, Blue-Tailed Emerald, Violet-Headed Hummingbird, etc.….

An also the trails in the secondary and primary forests makes possible to do good pictures of different kinds of birds such as: White-Browed antbird, Bluish-Slate Antshrike, Pygmy Antwren, Gray Antwren, Dot-Wing Antwren, Bamboo Antshrike, Great Antshrike, Grey Antbird, Chestnut-Tailed Antbird, Blue-Headed Parrot, Blue-Headed

Macaw, Chestnut-Fronted Macaw, White-Wing Becard, Yellow-Crowned Tyrannulet, Gray-Crowned Flycatcher, Black-Tailed Trogon, etc.…

In the night near the lodge, we can hear some screech owls, we could take some pictures, before going to rest.

DAY 06
Goul'd Jewelfront
DAY 07
AMAZONIA LODGE-MANU BIRDING LODGE

Today we will go to the Manu Birding Lodge our trip will be in our private motor boat for six hours Madre Dios down river; this part of the river is a good route to see and take pictures of some Anseriforms (water birds) we could take pictures of: Cocoi Heron, Capped Heron, Snowy Egret, Roseate Spoonbill etc.

In the first hours of travel, we will surely see the Fasciated Tiger-Heron that can only be seen in the part where the river runs more; on the banks of the river, we can see and take pictures of Giant Cowbird, Orinoco Goose Muscovy duck etc.

In the afternoon we can reach the lodge where our cook will make for us a delicious dinner.

MANU BIRDING LODGE-BLAQUILLO CLAY LICK

Today early we are heading by motorized boat to clay lick of Blanquillo forty-five minutes downriver, in this clay lick we will witness a fascinating and colorful show where the largest macaws in Amazon jungle of Peru gather to eat clay and socialize and some of them getting couples who will live forever and from the blind house where we are watching to them, we could make pictures of them.

From the river bank we will make a walk half hour to hidden house where we can spot the first parrots what have come around the clay wall to get the minerals, they need for digestion we can see: Mealy Parrots, Blue- Headed Parrots Yellow- Crowned Parrots, Orange- Cheeked Parrots that easily exceed two hundred members; while we are watching this show, we can take our delicious breakfast that will make possible our expert cook.

 

After these green visitors will begin to descend to clay wall the largest Macaws of the Peruvian Amazon jungle; Red and Green macaws often over a hundred we can see them close.

Also, we will see many other species such as: Ringed Kingfisher, White -winged Swallow, Bank Swallow, White- Banded Swallow, Grey -Capped Flycatcher, White- Throated Toucan, Chestnut -Eared Aracari, Crimson-Crested Woodpecker, Lineated Woodpecker, Fork-Tailed Palm- Swift, etc.

DAY 08
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DAY 09
MANU BIRDING LODGE-BLANCO OXBOW LAKE

We will leave early from our lodge towards the Blanco Lake; this place is a meander lake where we can find many birds. We will use a catamaran to navigate in this lake that will give us the possibility of taking pictures of birds like: Hoatzin, Purus Jacamar, Little Cuckoo, Greater Ani, Black-Capped Donacobios, Ringed Kingfisher, Limpkin, Purple Gallinule, etc.

After this activity we will return to our lodge to take our lunch and be able to do more spots in the trails of our lodge, we will also visit the King Vulture hide where we can take pictures of this beautiful vulture of the new world; the trails in the lodge also having leks of manakins of Band-Tailed Manakin, Blue Blacked manakin, Blue Crowned Manakin, after this place we are going to canopy tower from where we can do pictures and we wait the time for owls.

MANU BIRDING LODGE-PUERTO MALDONADO

Today in the morning we will leave from our lodge towards to Puerto Maldonado city; our last trip will be approximately seven hours in different transport system; the first stretch of the trip we will do in our motor boat to Boca Colorado still we have chances to make some pictures from the motor boat such as: Southern Caracara, Muscovy Duck, Black Skimmer, Yellow Billed Tern, Large Billed Tern, etc.

Boca Colorado is a place where tourism activity has been replaced by gold mining and flora and fauna are farther, and in Boca Colorado we will take an express car that will transport us for an hour and half approximately to Punkiri port and from there we will cross another river called Inambari by motor boat to finally to continue our journey to the city of Puerto Maldonado where we can rest in our hotel after an agitated traveling.

DAY 10
DAY 11
PUERTO MALDONADO BIRDING- LIMA

This morning we will bird near the airport and the road to Cusco which several species of widespread distribution have colonized in the wake of deforestation. We should pick up some new species in these few hours, including Double-collared Seedeater, Red-breasted Blackbird and possibly White-tailed Kite. Other birds we will look for, Scaled Pigeon, Rusty-margined Flycatcher, Black-faced Tanager and Grassland Sparrow. Later we will take a midday flight, via Cusco, to Lima where the tours end.

What's Included

What does it include?

Visa and all taxes
Licensed Tour guide who is a specialized Birder
All activities mentioned in the itinerary.
All meals.
Tea/coffee and snacks
Ground Transportation.
All entrance fees to parks.

What is not included?

Domestic flight between Lima and Cusco
International Flights.
Travel Insurance (essential)
Laundry, phone calls and alcoholic drinks.
Personal Expenses
Charges incurred because of circumstances beyond the control
Gratuity /Tips.

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