Yanacocha and Zuro Loma Birding Tour | Birding Tours in Ecuador

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Birding Tour Ecuador: Zuro Loma Antpittas Hide and Yanacocha Puffleg Reserve

✅ Possible 20 - 40 Bird Species including Sword-billed Hummingbird and Scarlet-bellied Mountain Tanager
✅ Tailor-made Experience – Birding or Photography at your own pace.
✅ Visit Zuro Loma Feeders and Yanacocha Reserve
✅ Delicious Ecuadorian Lunch with Cloud Forest View
✅ Conservation-Oriented – Supporting our Reforestation Projects
✅ Ecuador Birds Tours Souvenir Cap

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Zuro Loma & Yanacocha Birding Map

Pick up 5:30am from your hotel in Quito
Visit Zuro Loma Antpitta Feeder and White-throated Screetch Owl Feeder (when in season)
Lunch at Yanacocha Feeders
Return to Quito

HIGHLIGHTS OF OUR ANDEAN COCK OF THE ROCK TOUR

Visit Zuro Loma Antpittas Hide and possible Ocellated Tapaculo Hide (when in season)!
Visit Yanacocha Reserve near Quito (Upper Mountain Forest and Paramo Region)
Birding the Old-Nono-Mindo Route for spectacular bird species
Delicious Lunch at the reserve overviewing the Andes and Cloud Forest

ITINERARY

We will pick you up early in the morning around 5:30 am from your hotel in Quito area and drive towards Zuro Loma Reserve located in the North Western part of Quito. Upon arrival to the reserve we will devote the first hour to explore the Antpitta nad Hummingbird feeders of the reserve for 2-types of Antpittas, the Chestnut-naped Antpitta and Equatorial Antpitta, as well as Tanagers and Sword-billed Hummingbirds.

Target Species: Black-chested Mountain Tanager, Scarlet-bellied Mountain Tanager, Grey-browed BrushFinch, Chestnut-naped Antpitta, Equatorial Antpitta, Andean Guan, Masked Flowerpiercer, Glossy Flowerpiercer, Southern-Yellow Grossbeak, Shining Sunbeam, Sword-billed Hummingbird, Great-Sapphirewing, Buff-tailed Coronet, Superciliated Hemispingus and others.

We will continue birding in Yanacocha Reserve for about 1 hour observing hummingbirds and possible the critical endangered Black-breasted Puffleg. Lunch at the Reserve overviewing the Canopy of the Upper Mountain Forest and Cloud Forest. Continue to the main Puffleg feeders and afternoon return to Quito.

Target Species: Sapphire-vented puffleg, Golden-breasted Puffleg, Buff-winged Starfrontlet, Sword-billed Hummingbird, Great Sapphirewing, Rufous Wren, Tawny Antpitta, Purple-backed Thornbill, Rainbow-bearded Thornbill and others.

Special Pricing

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Tour Inclusions

Included

✔ Pick up from Quito Hotel
✔ Drop off at Quito Hotel or Quito Airport
✔ Private English Speaking Birding Guide with Transportation
✔ Entrance Fees to Zuro Loma and Yanacocha Feeders
✔ Lunch Menu with soft drink
✔ Souvenir Birding Cap
✔ Ebird Online Birding List
✔ Personalized Services

Not Included

✘ Personal Expenses
✘ Alcoholic & Soft Drinks
✘ Other Entrance Fees, when in season White-throated Screetch Owl Feeder $10.00 pp
✘ Tips

Activities

Birding and Photography Antpittas Hides
Birding Trails
Hummingbird Feeders

Trip Reports

2025 - Birding Report Ecuador: Full Day Yanacocha Zuro Loma Tour Report - 45 Birds!

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Testimonials

2024 – Birding Review Ecuador: Birding Tour

★★★★★

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★★★★★

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★★★★★

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★★★★★

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★★★★★

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★★★★★

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2025 – Birding Report Ecuador: 10 day tailored tour with Ecuador Bird Tours

★★★★★

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★★★★★

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★★★★★

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★★★★★

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