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PRIVATE BIRD WATCHING TOURS NORTHERN ECUADOR: EAST & WEST SLOPE TOURS SOUTHERN ECUADOR: MARAÑON REGION & CONDOR MOUNTAIN RANGE SOUTHWESTERN ECUADOR: TUMBESIAN REGION AND SEABIRDS TOUR SEE THE BANDED GROUND CUKOO AT THE NEW HOT BIRDING SITE
Why Our Tours are The BEST! This page is the fruit of our efforts in exploring Ecuador to bring you the best birding experience possible. We make sure that your birding experience surpasses your expectations by offering private tours where you dont have to be part of a large group with strangers that may or may not share the same likings. As part of our commitment to conservation in Ecuador I have been writting every two weeks in the reputable 10000birds blog as Renato and you can see all my articles here: http://10000birds.com/author/renato. Our tours will focus on putting you up front so that you can experience the discovery and identification process that makes birding so exciting. Also, you will find that our tours are very economic because: * My wife and I work as a team when needed, so we do not need a driver or a guide. We are in a very unique location. Exploring inside the Pululahua Geobotanical Reserve is gratifying since we have some very difficult to find birds such as the Rusty-breasted Antpitta only found in Pululahua and in Southern Ecuador, the Ondulated Antpitta, the Ocellated Tapaculo, the Burrowing Owl, the Greentailed Trainbearer, and many others. Preliminary bird list of Puluahua.
BIRD WATCHING TOURS My wife and I have become very interested in bird watching. We believe this activity promotes more consciousness needed to save the forest. Most developed countries are working hard on conservation, but in Ecuador, and in general most underdeveloped countries, the conservation of the forest and the environment is just starting to take some meaning. We have seen one-hundred-and-eighty degree changes in people that used to destroy the forest who are now converted into forest protectors! This forest saving miracle has happened thanks to bird watchers that come to our country to see the amazing birds that most Ecuadorians have taken for granted. The real story about this miracle happens every day at “Refugio Paz de las Aves” www.refugiopazdelasaves.com where a humble Ecuadorian family earn their living by showing off some amazing Neotropical birds that have been trained to eat from the hands of their caretakers. The success of Refugio Paz de las Aves has motivated to help motivate other people so that they too can benefit from the benefits of sustainability and conservation through bird watching. This motivation is now beeing materialized though a new website in which we are linking Ecuadorian people who have conservation and bird watching related business. This is an assosiation of lodge owners, forest preservers, birding guides, and birdwatching routes that will help promote the businesses that promote sustainability and conservation in Ecuador. If you want your money to support our local people and their efforts in conservation, then visit our Birdwatching For Conservation Association and follow the links to our Eco-tourism associates. Birds are a very important chain in ecosystems and help immensely in the control of insects and pests. Our ecolodge is surrounded by a Geobotanical Reserve, and we see these benefits every day in the production of our organic produce. Here is a very interesting link related to this subject: How Birds Keep our World Safe from the Plagues of Insects Here are some hard facts about deforestation in the northern Andes and how this affects birds: Migrant Land Birds in the Andes .
PRICING AND DETAILS BIRD WATCHING TOURS NORTHERN ECUADOR: The Pululahua Geobotanical Reserve and it’s surrounding areas like Mindo, Maquipucuna, Bellavista, Tandayapa, Milpe, Silanche, and many others, make an excellent place for bird watching tours. All of these places are within the IBAS (Important Bird Areas) located on the Northwest Slope of Ecuador. This area spreads towards the Chocó region, which is one of the top ten biological hotspots in the world. And that is not all, the East and West slopes along with the Interandean Valleys are now considered the Tropical Andes the new hotspot classified as the richest and most diverse biodiversity in the world!!
We can offer tours to the following reserves (For more details click on each link): EAST SLOPE TOURS Papallacta Pass Antenas
WEST SLOPE TOURS Yanachocha Reserve We also offer tours to the eastern side at our standard pricing as proposed above. Here is our latest best sample itinerary: Day 1: Pululahua, Yanacocha. Sleep in Puluahua If you want to further explore the eastern side, we can price a package upon request. We can provide pricing for Sani Lodge, Cuyabeno Reserve, and others.
The Nothern Amazon Tours cover the Tena and Coca areas. Tena is the closest Amazon town and offers very special birding opportunities without difficult travel and at reasonable prices. Coca is further and becomes the door to more special birds which can be found in the deep forest of Parque Nacional Yasuni. We will be adding a specific tour to this area in the future.
Our tour will visit to the following reserves (for more details click on each link): Here is the proposed itinerary: Day 1: Drive from Quito to Tena bird late afernoon, lodging in Misahualli.
SEVEN DAY SOUTHERN ECUADOR : The South of Ecuador offers very special birding. Therefore, we have added an unique tour to see some of the endemics in this area like the Jocotoco Antpitta, Orange-throated Tanager, Golden-plumed Parakeet, Tumbes Hummingbird.
Our tour will visit to the following reserves (for more details click on each link): Cabañas Copalinga Here is the proposed itinerary: Day 1: Flight to Loja from Quito followed by transportation from Loja to Zamora. For those interested in fully exploring the tumbesian endemics we can extend this tour to include the following Jocotoco reserves: Jorupe, Utuana, Buenaventura, and Yunguilla. Also we would include an additional visit to the highland entrance of Cajanuma to the Podocarpus National Park and an additional visit to El Cajas. We can easily extend this tour to fourteen days to cover in great detail the south of Ecuador. Contact us to customize a special tour.
COMPLETE SOUTHERN ECUADOR :
Our tour will visit to the following reserves (for more details click on each link): Ecuasal Here is the proposed itinerary: Day 1: Start in Guayaquil and visit Ecuasal and Cerro Blanco. Sleep in Guayaquil.
SOUTHWESTERN ECUADOR: This tour is for birders interested Tumbesian endemic birds and also in aquatic birds from fresh and saltwater environments. Whale-watching is possible from July to September.
Our tour will visit to the following reserves (for more details click on each link): Rio Palenque Day 1: Travel from Quito to Rio Palenque Reserve, biding in afternoon.
This is land-based tour and includes one 3-hour boat transport from Santa Cruz to Isabela and a 40 minute flight from Isabela to San Cristobal. You can also find many details on our birding blog Birding Ecuador for Conservation. Briefly searching the web we found that the birding tours to Galapagos are the most expensive tours offered for Ecuador. Prices for a 10 day tour range from $450 per day to $630 per day. For this reason we are presenting tours for $220 - $300 per day with a totally different approach, the land-based approach. My wife and I went on a self-planned land tour in preparation to this offering and we concluded:
Click below to get more information and photos from Galapagos: Here is a proposed itinerary: Day 1: Flight from Quito to Baltra. Half day Birding at Santa Cruz Please contact us for alternative custom tours such as adding Floreana to see the Floreana Mocking bird and the Medium Tree Finch--both endemic to Floreana.
The highlands of Ecuador present a very special ecosystem where the flora, fauna, and the climate give an exhilarating and unique birding experience. These are day extension if you want to add to any of the existing tours.
Here are the details and pictures of these reserves. Antisana Reserve
This is a special group of bird watching extension to visit a set of reserves that form part of the Chocó region. These areas are difficult to access and have very difficult weather conditions so are offered as separate packages for those interested in visiting these birding paradises.
We offer a single day tour starting from Quito, Pululahua, or the Mindo area.
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