Field Guides Birding Tours

ECUADOR: RAINFOREST & ANDES
Sacha, Mindo/Tandayapa & San Isidro

Highlights of the best of Ecuador's rainforest birding at Sacha Lodge (think cotingas, parrots, antbirds, and canopy towers) combined with two exciting destinations in the Andes, the Mindo/Tandayapa area and San Isidro (think myriad hummingbirds and tanagers, quetzals, and cock-of-the-rock).
2008
II. September 6-20 with Mitch Lysinger		 2009
I. March 21-April 4 with Mitch Lysinger
II. September 5-19 with Mitch Lysinger

$3875 (2008 fee); $3975 (2009 fee). 15 days
From Quito. Limit: 8
Good accommodations, warm to cool climate, easy to mostly moderate terrain. Our staff travel agents can book your air travel for this tour. Contact us at (800) 728-4953 for more information.

See our triplist for March 2008 or September 2007 or March 2007 or September 2006

Purple-bibbed Whitetip
by guide John Rowlett
This two-week itinerary promises a productive and fun visit to three famous venues in this small but amazingly bird-rich country.  We’ll have a five-night stay at Sacha Lodge (with its three canopy towers, wonderful parrot licks across the river, and myriad birds) in the Amazonian lowlands, as well as three nights each at two other well-known locales in the beautiful Andes: Septimo Paraiso (“Seventh Heaven”) Lodge, on the west slope of the mountains and with close access to both famous Mindo and the Tandayapa Valley, and San Isidro Lodge, featuring a significantly different and equally rich east-slope avifauna; to these we’ll add a visit to Yanacocha on the slopes of Pichincha volcano and birding at Papallacta Pass.  With the abundance of species to be found at each of these sites, we’ll have hardly a dull moment on the trip. 

We can expect to encounter a fabulous diversity of tropical birds, from stunning hummingbirds and dazzling tanagers to eye-catching cotingas, raucous parrots, and handsome antbirds.  Highlights of the more than 500 species seen on last year’s tour included dozens of dazzling hummingbird species (and hundreds and hundreds of individuals!) from Booted Racket-tails and Velvet-purple Coronets to Violet-tailed Sylphs and Tourmaline Sunangels; eye-level views of White-fronted Nunbirds, Dugand’s Antwrens, and Paradise Tanagers from Sacha’s canopy towers; Long-billed Woodcreper and Cream-colored Woodpecker along a cocha; owls from Tawny-bellied Screech- to Crested to the enigmatic “Black-and-white” type that Mitch Lysinger has been observing at San Isidro for the past few years; the unusual Orange-fronted Plushcrown; a glowing and hard-to-find Collared Puffbird; shaggy-headed Hoatzins; the mind-blowing Wire-tailed Manakin; the always amazing Plate-billed Mountain-Toucan; brilliant Andean Cocks-of-the-rock; Crimson-mantled Woodpecker and Plushcap among numerous species in several fantastic mixed flocks; eye-catching Turquoise Jays; a wonderfully close Tawny Antpitta; and among many other flashy tanagers the wonderful Golden, Flame-faced, and Saffron-crowned.  Join us for a fabulous fortnight in Ecuador! 

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