Ecuador Birds Tours
Shared Southern Ecuador Birding: 16 Days Endemic Specialties
✅ Possible 300 - 500 Bird Species
✅ Highly Recommended in Trip Advisor
✅ Tailor-Made Focus at your own pace and flexible!
✅ Shared Expert Birding Guides – over 25 years of birding experience
✅ Comfort in Nature – Overnight in top birding lodges
✅ Top Birding Hotspots – Includes iconic locations like Lagartera Marshes, Tumbesian Dry-forest, Copalinga Reserve, Yankaum Orange-throated Tanager Feeder and Cajas National Park!
✅ Private Birding Reserves – with tanagers and hummingbird feeders, hides, observation towers for better birdwatching and photography.
✅ Top Logistics – Includes Airport Transfers, Private transportation, Meals, Entrance Fees, Top Birding Guides, Accommodation and more!
✅ 24/7 Customer Support – We will ensure your trip goes smoothly and can be reached anytime via whatsapp at +593 99 373 2879.
Southern Birding Slope Map
- S1. Manging Galeria Hotel Guayaquil
- S2. Umbrellabird Lodge
- S3. Urraca Lodge
- S4. Casa Simpson Lodge
- S5. Copalinga Lodge
- S6. Yankuam Cabins
- S7. Inti Wasi Hotel
- S8. Posada Angel Cuenca and Dos Chorreras
Itinerary
In our Southern Birding Tour in Ecuador we will explore several different habitats and ecosystems, ranging from the Coastal Marshes, to the Tumbesian and Choco Forests, Lowlands, Cloud Forests, Amazon Basin and the Southern Andean Paramo. In addition to our Northern Birding Circuits, this tour emphasizes in several endemic species, as well as other species from Northern Peru, that are close to our birding reserves. In average we can add around +/- 400 New Bird Species in this tour, in addition to our Northern Circuits.
Birding Photos: Western Striped Manakin, Birding Group and Ecuadorian Trogon by Ecuador Birds Tours.
Index
| DAY | DESCRIPTION | HOTEL | MEALS |
| 1 | Arrival to Guayaquil. Our driver will pick you up from the Airport. Transfer to the Hotel. Leisure afternoon. | Manging Galeria | X |
| 2 | Lagartera Aquatic Species, Peruvian Pigmy Owl, Hornedscreamer, Arenillas Dry-Forest. | Umbrellabird Lodge | B/L/D |
| 3 | Full Day Buenaventura Reserve Lower Part & El Oro Parakeet Reserve | B/L/D | |
| 4 | Puyango Petrified Forest-Tumbesian Dry Forest, Celica-Empalme Road, Macara, Jorupe Reserve | Urraca Lodge | B/L/D |
| 5 | Full Day Jorupe Reserve | B/L/D | |
| 6 | Transfer to Utuana Reserve & Cerro Sabanilla | Casa Simpson | B/L/D |
| 7 | Full Day Jocotoco Antpitta and Tapichalaca Reserve | B/L/D | |
| 8 | Transfer to Copalinga Reserve | Copalinga Lodge | B/L/D |
| 9 | Full Day Copalinga Reserve | B/L/D | |
| 10 | Zamora Birding Road and Yankuam afternoon | Yankuam Cabins | B/BL/D |
| 11 | Full Day Yankuam Reserve | B/L/D | |
| 12 | Transfer to Saraguro Birding Road | Inti Wasi Hotel | B/L/D |
| 13 | Cerro de Arcos - Blue Throated Hillstar and continue to Cuenca. | Hotel Cuenca | B/L/D |
| 14 | Full Day Cajas National Park | B/L/D | |
| 15 | Morning Cajas Park and Birding in route to Guayaquil. | Manging Galeria | B/L |
| 16 | Transfer Out to the Airport | X | B |
We start from Guayaquil City, birding in Lagartera Marshes along the way towards Buenaventura Reserve in El Oro Province. Our main targets include El Oro Parakeet, Club-winged Manakin, Long-wattled Umbrellabird, El Oro Tapaculo, Ecuadorian Trogon, Emeral-bellied Woodnymph, Grey-breasted Flycatcher, Rufous-throated Tanager, Blue-necked Tanager and others.
Continue birding in the Dry-deciduous and Humid Evergreen Forests, bordering with Peru and Macara at Jorupe Reserve. Some of our Targets include Grey-cheeked Parakeet, West Peruvian Screetch Owl, Watkins Antpitta, Whooping Motmot, Peruvian Pygmy Owl, Scarlet-backed Woodpecker, Black and white Tanager and others.
The foothills of Ecuador’s far southeast are still among some of the least explored areas of the country, partly because of its remote location and terrain. We will focus in two major areas: the deep Southeast, along the western slope of the Cordillera del Condor right along the Peruvian border near Yankuam Reserve, and then the Lower eastern slopes of the famous Podocarpus National Park, and areas nearby like Copalinga and Tapichalaca Reserves, including the excellent old Loja-Zamora Birding Road.
In Tapichalaca Reserve our Targets include Peruvian Anpitta, Masked Mountain Tanager, Undulated Antpitta, Neblina Metaltail, Bearded Guan, Jocotoco Antpitta, Flame-throated Sunangel, Amethyst-throated Sunangel, Green and Black Fruiteater and others. While in Copalinga Reserve Grey Tinamou, Little Tinamou, Amazonian Umbrellabird, White-capped Tanager, Golden-eared Tanager, and others.
We continue the drive towards Coordillera del Condor to Cabanas Yankuam for the specialty of Orange-throated Tanager. At the reserve and surroundings of Maycu Trail other targets include Lemon throated Barbet, Swallow Tanager, Yellow bellied Dacnis, Purplish Jacamar, Green backed Trogon, Tropical Screetch Owl, Paradise Tanager, White-eyed Parakeet, Golden-winged Tody-Flycatcher, Flame-crested Tanager and others.
Morning birding in Yatzaza Road and continue to Loja. Afterwards explore Cerro de Arcos and Cerro Acanama for specialties like Blue-throated Hillstar, Crescent-faced Antpitta, Grey-breasted Mountain Toucan, Red-faced Parrot and others. Late arrival to Saraguro, a town between Loja and Cuenca. We will continue to explore Yunguilla Birding Road for targets including Amazilia Hummingbird, Chiguanco Thrush, Pallid Dove, Hepatic Tanager and others. The next days we will explore Cajas National Park located near Cuenca City. In the Paramo the targets include Giant Conebill, Andean Condor, Violet-throated Metailtail, Variable Hawk, Tufted-tit-Tyrant, Tit-like Dacnis, Mountain Caracara, Blue-mantled Thornbill and others. Last day transfer to Guayaquil City, drop off at the Airport or at the hotel depending in your departure flight back home.
**Depending in your travel dates, we can tailor-made this itinerary to any length of days in the Southern Ecuador Region and also if needed extensions to Galapagos Islands**
Umbrellabird Lodge
Double Room
Urraca Lodge
Double Room
Casa Simpson Lodge
Double Room
Copalinga Lodge
Double Room
Yankuam Cabins
Double Room
Posada del Angel Hotel Cuenca
Double Room
Dos Chorreras Lodge Cuenca
Double Room with chimney
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