The Most Birding Tour Tambopata 10 days
¿WHAT WE EXPECT?
The Most Birding Tour Tambopata 10 days .
Itinerary: From Cusco to Tambopata National Reserve : Your adventure begins in the historic city of Cusco, the gateway to the Andes and the surrounding cloud forests. From there, you’ll travel through scenic routes surrounded by lush vegetation, where you’ll have the chance to spot iconic species such as:
- The Andean Cock-of-the-Rock (Rupicola peruvianus), Peru’s national bird
- Iridescent Andean hummingbirds
- Colorful tanagers, toucans, and more…
As we descend into the jungle, the landscape transforms into lowland tropical forests, and finally into the mystical Peruvian Amazon, where the Tambopata National Reserve awaits — one of the most biodiverse places on Earth.
DETAILED TOUR ITINERARY:
Itinerary The Most Birding Tour Tambopata 10 days
The Most Birding Tour Tambopata What Birds Will You See? During this specialized birding tour, you’ll have the chance to observe an extraordinary variety of species in their natural habitat, including:
- Endemic birds of the Andean-Amazonian region
- Migratory species traveling from North America
- Parrots, macaws, herons, woodpeckers, eagles, owls, and many more
You’ll be accompanied by expert ornithologist guides, who will share their deep knowledge and help you identify even the rarest and most elusive birds of the forest.
Day 1: Cusco – Marca pata to Puerto Maldonado.
The first day we would start at 05:00 a.m., driving in our mini bus to HUACARPAY lake, where we would have the oportunity to watch some . Endemic birds like in the tour Tambopata Rainforest Bird: Bearded mountaineer, Rusty
fronted Canastero , Streak fronted thorn bird, plumberous Rail, Andean Black, Giant Hummingbird, Many Colored
Rush tyrant, Cinnamon Teal, Spot Billed Ground Tyrant, puma Teal, White Tufted Grebe, Cinereous Harrier , Wren Like Rushbird. And much more birds. tambopata birding tours short
After we would continue driving to Ocongate town, in the way we would stop to watch more Endemic birds like: Chestnut Breasted Mountain Finch, Cream Crested Spine tail. And more like: Mourning Sierra Finch, Yellow Billed
Tit Tyrant, and Band Tailed seedeater. Then we would continue until Abra Pirhuarani; a high mountain pass at
4.725 meters over the sea level., where we can watch some birds like: Gray breasted Seed Snipe, White Fronted Ground
Tyrant, Andean Goose, Puna Snipe, White Winged Diuca Finch. And much more. After we will continue the manu rainforest until Marcapata town, in the way we would take a Box Lunch, then we would watch more Endemic birds like . Marcapata Spinetail, Scaled Metal tail. And more like: Andean Condor, Rufous Antpitta, Sword Billed
Hummingbird, Black Chested Buzzard Eagle and much more. After we continue the trip to Quince Mil town and in
the way we would stop to watch the Andean Cock of the Rock and much more: Tanagers, Flycatchers. Then we
arrive to Qunice Mil, where we would take dinner at a restaurant and sleep at the Basic hostel in this town.
Day 2 : The Most Birding Tour Tambopata – Marcapata Basic hostel .
Today we would start also very early, driving in our mini bus to Marcapata, in the way we would take breakfast. Here we would have the opportunity to watch birds like: Andean Cock Of The Rock , Andean Condor, Dark Faced
Brush Finch, Blue Capped Tanager, Rufus At pitta, Marcapata Spinetail, streak throated Bush Tyrant, Scarlet
Bellied Mountain Tanager , Red Crested Cotinga, Violet Throated Starfronlet , torret Duck, Torrent Tyranulet .
After we come back to Quince Mil , where we continue watching another kind of birds like: Saffron Crowned Tanager, Blue necked Tanager, Chestnut brested coronet, Chesnut Backed Antshire, orange Eared Tanager. At
midday we can also take a Box Lunch or instead our cook that always would be ready with our 3 daily meals, can cook for us. Then we continue the trip to Quince Mil, where we would watch more Endemic birds in the way like . Fine Barred Piculet,
Black Backed Toddy Flycatcher ,Masked trogon, Green Jay, Booted Racket Tail, White Bellied Wood star , Many
Spotted Hummingbird, Violet Fronted Brilliant , Gray Breasted Sabrewing, Long Tailed Hermit, Green Hermit, Blue Tailed Emerald, and more. Arriving to Quince Mil we would take our dinner and stay the night at the Basic hostel.
Day 3 :Quince Mil – Mazuco ( Puerto Maldonado) –The Most Birding Tour Tambopata .
Also today we start very early after breakfast at the hotel, in the direction to Mazuco or Puerto Maldonado, to watch some birds like: Yellow Tyranulet, Bobolik, Black and White Seedeater, Blackish Rail, uniform Crake , Azure
Gallinule, Burrowing Owl, Plain Crowned Spinetail, Long Tailed Tyrant, White lined ant bird, Rusty fronted Tody
Flycatcher, Black faced Dacnis, Blue Dacnis, Military Macaw, Cabanis Spinetail, Vercicolored Barbet, Cinnamon
Faced Tyranulet, Orange Breasted Falcon , Gray Breasted Crake, Paradise Tanager, Bay Headed Tanager. And the Endemics: Black Backed tody Flycatcher, Fine Barred Piculet.
Continuing the trip to Mazuco we would stop to watch: Carmiol’s Tanager, and have a Box Lunch in the way. After lunch we would watch more birds in the road like: Masked Tanager, Red Billed Tyranulet, White Browed Purpletuft,Gray Tinamou , Golden Collared Toucan , Striolated
Puffbird , Gould’s Jewelfront , Buff Tailed Sicklebill, Black Throated Brilliant , Vialed Headed Hummingbird , ( rare Rufus crested Coquette, Golden Tailed Sapphire , Black eared Fairy , Mottle Backed Elaenia , Two Banded
Warbler, Black Crowned Tityra , Spangled Cotinga, Festive Coquette and much more common birds. And just
before Puerto Maldonado we would stop again to watch: Red Breasted Black Bird , White Tailed Kite , Southern Caracara, Southern Lapwing , Brazilian Teal .
Arriving to the hotel, taking dinner in a restaurant, and stay the night in this town. macaw clay lick amazon
Day 4 : Puerto Maldonado – Iberia Birdwatching – The Most Birding Tour Tambopata .
Today we start after breakfast about 06:00 a.m., by bus to Pastora, to watch some special birds like: White Throated Jacamar , Purus Jacamar , Black Banded Crake , Sun bittern , Buff Breasted Wren , Southern Lapwing ,
Chestnut Crowned Foliage gleaner , Barred Ant shrike , Masked Tityra , Straight Billed Woodcreeper, Magpie
Tanager , Hoatzin , Orange Backed Tropical , Chestnut Bellied Seedeater , Black Billed Seed Finch , Rusty
Margined Flycatcher , Collared plover, Limkin, Pectoral Sandpiper , Solitary Sandpiper. After this activity we would go back to Puerto
Maldonado and take lunch there. Then we would continue our trip, about 3 or 4 hours by bus until Iberia. Stopping at some spots to watch some important birds. Take dinner in a restaurant and stay the night in Iberia. PERU BIRDWHATCHING
Day 5 : Puerto Maldonado – Infierno Durand lodge to The Most Birding Tour Tambopata.
Today we would drive only about 15 minutes, to Oceania, to watch some special birds like: Black Faced Cotinga, Rufous fronted Anthruhs, Rufous Twistwing , Sulphur Bellied Tyrant Manakin , Blue Headed Macaw , Bamboo Ant shrike , Spot Breasted Woodpecker , Blue and Yellow Macaw , chestnut fronted Macaw , Large Headed Flat bill ,
Tue. Parakeet, Blues Fronted Jacamar , Black Faced Tanager , Greenish Elaina . After this watching time we would go back to Iberia, to take lunch and pick up our luggage at the hotel. Then we would go back to Puerto Maldonado. Arriving in the end to Durand Lodge where we would take dinner and sleep.
The Most Birding Tour Tambopata- 6th, 7th & 8th Days: Durand lodge .
Here we would stay for four days, to watch another kind of birds in the High Jungle or Primary Jungle like: Rufus Headed Woodpecker, Manu ant bird , Pheasant Cuckoo , Lemon Throated Barbet, Scarlet Hooded Barbet , Gilded Barbet, Red Billed pied tanager , Bare Necked Fruit crow , Purple Throated Fruit crow ,Great Jacamar , Point tail
palm creeper , Striped Wood haunter , ENDEMIC . Peruvian Recurvebill, Band Tailed Manakin, Round Tailed
Manakin , Yellow Crested Tanager, Blue Crowned Manakin , Golden collared Toucanet , White Throated Toucan ,Emerald Toucan , Curd Crested Aracari , Ivory Billed Aracari, Rofous Breasted pickled , Red Necked Woodpecker ,
long Tailed Woocreeper , Amazonian Barred Woodcreeper, Black Banded Wood creeper, Strong Billed
Woodcreeper, Faciated Antshrike , Spot Winged Ant shrike, Dusky Throated Ant shrike, Barred Ant shrike, Ornate
Ant wren , White Eyed Ant wren , Stipple Throated Ant wren , Pygmy Ant wren , Scoter’s Ant wren , Gray Ant wren , Long winged Ant wren , Yellow Breasted Warbling ant bird, Dot Winged Ant wren , Gray ant bird , Blackish ant bird
, Black Ant bird,
White Browed ant bird , Black Faced ant bird , Sooty ant bird , Plumbeous Antbird , Goeldi’s ant bird , Black
Spotted Bare Eye , White Throated Antbird , Hairy Crested ant bird , Scale Backed ant bird , Spot Backed ant bird ,
Plain Throated Ant wren , Black Faced Anthrush , Ash Throated Gnat eater , Rusty Belted Tapaculo , Short Tailed Pygmy Tyrant , Johannes’s Toddy Tyrant ,Dusky Tailed Flatbill ,Ringed Antpipit , Golden Crowned
Spade bill , White Crested Spadebill , Crowned Salty Flycatcher , Sirystes , Pink Throated Be card , Dull Capped Atila , Cinereous Mourner , Plum Throated Cotinga , Wing Barred Manakin , Blue Backed Manakin, Blue crowned
Manakin ,Musician Wren ,Scaly Breasted Wren , Orange Headed Tanager , Yellow Backed Tanager , Guira Tanager , Flame Crested Tanager ,W hite winged Shrike Tanager , pectoral Sparrow , Buclkley’s Forest falcon, Slate colored
Hawk, olive Oropendola Trogons, Motmots, Haws, kites, Flycatchers, Jays Oropendolas . This four days staying at
LODGE would be with the food included, and in the nights we would be able to see birds like: Crested Owl ,Black Banded Owl , Spectacle Owl , Amazonian Pygmy Owl , Tawny Bellied Screech Owl, Great Potoo , Long Tailed Potoo
, Common , potoo , Ocellated Poorwill , Ladder Tailed Nightjar , Common Pauraque.
Day 9 :Durand lodge – Lake Tress Chimbadas – Durand lodge
Today we would start very early in the morning, about 05:15 a.m. we would sail about 45 minutes river up to a clay spot of Parrots and Macaws. After we would continue the trip until Tres Chimbadas Lake, to watch lake birds and
Giant Otters. We would sail in the lake in a Catamaran boat, that is very comfortable for birds watchers, where we
can watch: Horned Screamer , Green Ibis , Rufescent Tiger Heron , Gray Headed kite , Slender Billed Kite , Snail Kite , Black Collared Hawk , Green kingfisher , Amazon Kingfisher , Rufus and Green Kingfisher , uncolored Black
Bird, Gray Necked Wood Rail, Band Tailed ant bird, Silvered ant bird , Amazonian Streaked Antwren, Spotted Toddy Flycatcher , Boat Billed Flycatcher ,Lesser Kiskadee , Great Kiskadee , Black Tailed Tityra , Masked Tityra , Muscovy Duck , Sun grebe , Watt led Jacana , Purple Gallinule, Rufus Sided Crake, King Vulture , Pied Lapwing , Collared
Plover , Anhinga , Black Caracara. After the tour in catamaran we would come back to the path in the way to
Tambopata River, take lunch and watch some birds. Then we would sail river down until LODGE , having a free afternoon at this place
Day 10: Durand lodge to Puerto Maldonado – Lima
Today After breakfast we would drive about 1 hour to Puerto Maldonado. In this way we would stop to watch some important birds and continue to the airport. Where we must wait and take the day flight .Where it finishes our tour, and hopping that you had enjoyed it Thank you .
NOTE.
WHAT TOUR SERVICES:
Incluye Rainforest Birds
- Professional naturalist tour guide; Bird watching
Motorboat transportation;
Land transportation in a private vehicle;
Entrance to Tambopata Reserve;
Professional chef;
Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner, and drinking water (Note: Vegetarian option available upon prior request at no additional cost!)
Accommodation: 9 nights in lodges;
Kitchen equipment and a gas bottle;
First aid kit, including a venom extractor, treatment for mosquito bites, and an antidote for snake bites
Radiocommunications;
Rubber boots.
Not incluye ene tour Rainforest Birds
- Any flight or airport departure tax;
Vaccination costs;
Breakfast on the first day and dinner on the last day;
Drinks;
Tips for local staff.
What to bring to Tambopata Rainforest Birds:
- Mosquito repellent (DEET 35 recommended as a minimum);
Original passport;
Sleeping bag (can be rented with us);
Small backpack;
Long-sleeved cotton shirts (preferably in green);
Long cotton pants;
Long cotton socks (to tuck into pants);
Comfortable walking shoes;
Sandals or lightweight shoes;
Rain gear (e.g., rain poncho);
Sweater (only for the start of the tour in the Andes and cloud forest);
Swimsuit;
Binoculars (also available for rent);
Camera and its charger;
Plastic bags for clothes and a camera;
Hat for sun or rain protection;
Toiletries;
Small towel;
Toilet paper;
Hand sanitizer;
Sunscreen, sunglasses;
Flashlight (with spare bulb and batteries);
A water bottle (at least 1 liter);
Pocket money (Soles) to buy some drinks and souvenirs and for tipping
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