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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
1. Pick up 5:30am from your hotel in Quito
2. Visit Zuro Loma Antpitta Feeder and White-throated Screetch Owl Feeder (when in season)
3. Lunch at Yanacocha Feeders
4. Return to Quito
Itinerary
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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
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ITINERARY OF TOUR
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.
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Tour Inclusions
Below you will find whats Included and Not Included in our Day Tours:
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
Personal Expenses
Alcoholic and Soft Drinks
Other Entrance Fees, when in season White-throated Screetch Owl Feeder $10.00 pp
Tips
Birding and Photography Antpittas Hides
Birding Trails
Hummingbird Feeders
Trip Reports
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Birding Report Ecuador: Full Day Yanacocha Zuro Loma Tour Report - 45 Birds!

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