Guango Lodge Birding 3D

Guango Lodge: Your trip will begin to a drier central valley, and pass through agricultural zones and chaparral forest to the windswept paramo, ecosystems where you may spot Andean Condors, Carunculated Caracara, Andean gull, Black-tailed trainbearer, blue and yellow tanagers and Southern yellow grosbeak. Then you will continue to Papallacta pass, where rich paramo birdlife resides like: Rufous-bellied Seedsnipe, Ecuadorian Hillstar, Tawny Antpitta, Many-striped Canastero, White-chinned Thistletail, Red-rumped Bush-Tyrant, Black-billed Shrike-Tyrant, Brown-backed ChatTyrant, some interesting seedeaters, and even Giant Conebill. After this you will continue towards Guango Lodge, and on the way you will pass some beautigul high elevations temperate forest, and have the opportunityt to see Black-chested Buzzard-Eagle, Viridian Metaltail, Red-crested Cotinga, Black-backed Bush-Tanager, among others. Once you arrive to the lodge, you will head to the hummingbird feeders to see Tourmaline Sunangel, Sword-billed Hummingbird and White-bellied Woodstar. In the late afternoon you will be welcomed to the lodge with a delicious drink called canelazo, and a tasty dinner.

Guango Lodge: This day will be devoted to birding at Guango Lodge. You will visit the hummingbird feeders and while walking around the trails you may spot: Bar-bellied Woodpecker, White-banded Tyrannulet, Bluebacked Conebill, Black-capped and Black-eared Hemispingus, Slaty and Pale-naped Brush-Finch, Gray-hooded Bush-Tanager, several species of mountain-tanager and even Plushcap. You will have to be attentive to see Gray-breasted Mountain-Toucan and Mountain Avocetbill. After this activities you will head back to the lodge for dinenr and depending on the climate, you can do owling at night.

Return to Quito: After breakfast, you will check out from the lodge and head to Cayambe Coca National Park, where you may spot mountaintanagers (Black-chested and Masked) and other flock birds; it is also a great place for some high elevation hummers that we might not have seen yet, like Shining Sunbeam and Great Sapphirewing.After this activity you will have a box lunch and then head back to Quito.