Quito Day Tours
Birding Tour Ecuador: Andean Condor Observatory and Hummingbirds
✅ Possible 20-40 Bird Species including the iconic Andean Condor and Ecuadorian Hillstar
✅ Tailor-made Experience: Birding or Photography at your own pace.
✅ Visit our Antisana Condor Observatory Tower
✅ Delicious Ecuadorian Lunch with Hummingbirds view
✅ Conservation-Oriented: Supporting our Reforestation Projects
✅ Ecuador Birds Tours Souvenir Cap
Antisana Condor Tour Map
- Pick up 6:00 to 6:30am from Quito
- Visit Antisana Condor Observatory
- Visit Antisana National Park
- Visit Andean Ibises Grasslands
- Lunch Tambo Condor Hummingbirds
OVERVIEW OF ANTISANA CONDOR TOUR
Antisana National Park is one of Ecuador’s top birding destinations, offering breathtaking landscapes and abundant birding wildlife. The National Park spans 120,000 hectares of páramo (high-altitude grasslands), glacial lagoons, and rugged cliffs, making it a sanctuary for Andean Condors, Carunculated Caracaras, Hawks, Ecuadorian Hillstar and mammals like the Spectacled Bear.
Our Antisana Condor Tour from Quito is perfect for Birders or Photographers that would like to observe the Andean Condor from our Antisana Condor Observatory Tower, 10 species of Hummingbirds including the Giant Hummingbird and Ecuador Hillstar, to enjoy the Andes Landscapes, and possible Spectacled Bear with a delicious Ecuadorian lunch overviewing Secas Lagoon and to support our conservation reforestation projects planting native trees.
ITINERARY
Early in the morning we will start our Top Birding Tour in the Ecuadorian Andes, a magestic day await us to observe one the endangered species like the Andean Condor in its natural habitat. We will pick you up between 6:00 and 6:30am from your hotel in Quito and drive towards the Upper Andean Valleys near Antisana Volcano.
Our first stop is the Antisana Condor Observatory, located on the border with Antisana National Park. Our private condor reserve has a prime location for observing the mighty Andean Condor. This site offers panoramic views of the cliffs and condors nest, providing one of the best opportunities Ecuador to observe this iconic species. There are only around 120 Condors in Ecuador and we have observe around 40 of them in Antisana.
Continue to Antisana National Park where we will make strategic stops to observe different flora and fauna and natural treasures that Antisana offers up to the Andean Ibises Grasslands.
Target Birds: Andean Condor, Shining Sunbeam, Giant Hummingbird, Black Flowerpiercer, Caranculated Cara Cara, Variable Hawk, Black-chested Buzzard Eagle, Andean Coot, Andean Teal, Ruddy Duck, Andean Gull, Many-striped Canastero, Tyrian Metaltail, American Kestrel, Brown-backed Chat Tyrant, Red-crested Cotinga, Ecuadorian Hillstar, Spectacled Redstart, Andean Ibises, Paramo Pipit and if we are lucky possible the Spectacled Bear!
If the weather permits, we can see also observe the top-three volcanoes including Cotopaxi, Sincholagua and Antisana. We will enjoy a delicious ecuadorian Lunch surrounded with an incredible mountain scenery and overviewing Secas Lagoon and Hummingbird feeders. Afternoon return to Quito.
Target Hummingbirds: Shining Sunbeam, Giant Hummingbird, Black-tailed Trainbearer, Sparkling Violetear, Ecuadorian Hillstar, Tyrian Metaltail, Golden-breasted Puffleg, Mountain Velvetbreast, Sword-billed Hummingbird, and Great Sapphirewing.
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