Bird Tours Peru - Lima
Short trips from Lima
We offer 3 short trips: Lomas de Lachay, Paracas and Eulalia/Marcapomacocha.
Often our driver in Lima - Lucho Nuñez - is doing these short tours
without taking a specialised bird guide. He knows the spots very well, most
customers can identify the birds in open areas rather well and it´s
relatively expensive to take a bird guide with you on a short trip. Prices
with bird guide on request.
All routes are a good start or end to combine with one of the main tours.
Lomas de Lachay ( 1 day)
Lomas de Lachay gives you a very special habitat and some very special birds. In the desert-like coast is lomas a type of vegetation formed by the mist clouds rolling in from the sea. From Lima we are heading 100 km north on the Pan American Highway. Arrived at Lachay we will concentrate first on the most special birds like Cactus Canastero, Thick-billed Miner and Greyish Miner, species that prefer the higher part of the reserve. Afterwards we will look at Coastal Miner, Least Seedsnipe and Peruvian Meadowlark. Lomas de Lachay is the best to visit between June and December and in that period there is the possibility to find the endemic Raimondi´s Yellow-Finch, Tawny-throated Dotterel, Dark-faced Ground-Tyrant and Collared Warbling-Finch. Heading back to Lima we can visit the marshes and beaches of Ventanilla, looking fort waders, gulls and terns amongst others.
Paracas (2 or 3 days)
Paracas Peninsula and the Ballestas Isles are famous for the huge colonies of guano-producing birds like cormorants, boobies and pelicans. The Humboldt current produces food-rich circumstances and for that reason an abundant marine life.
Day 1: Lima-Pisco
From Lima we are heading south on the Pan American Highway. At Puerto
Viejo we will find White-tufted Grebe, Great Grebe, White-cheeked Pintail,
waders and gulls. Here we will also search for Peruvian Thick-knee,
Lesser Nighthawk, Coastal Miner and differetn species of seedeaters.
If time allows we will investigate the area around Pisco in the late
afternoon. Grebes, Egrets, Phalaropes, waders but also Yellowish Pipit
and Peruvian Meadowlark are some of the birds we may see.
Stay in a nice family hotel in Pisco.
Day 2: Ballestas, back to Lima
We start with an excursion by boat to the Islas Ballestas, seeing a large amount of Peruvian Boobies, Peruvian Pelicans, three species of Cormorants and the Inca Tern. We will see Humboldt Penguin in small numbers, while sometimes a Peruvian Diving-petrel or a Wilson´s Storm-Petrel is flying by. Depending the time of the year Swallow-tailed Gulls and Sooty Shearwaters can be seen near the coast. After the 2-hour boat trip we continue to the peninsula Paracas, where we expect to see Blackish Oystercatcher, Per.Seaside Cinclodes and lots of waders, terns and gulls. After lunch we have a 4-5 hours drive back to Lima.
With 3 days we can do this program on a more extensive and a more relax way.
In day 2 there will be time to bird the Pisco- Paracas area better, taking our time to find also the rare waders and searching birds like Peruvian Sheartail, Amazilia Hummingbird and the rare Slender-billed Finch.
Santa Eulalia & Marcapomacocha (3 days)
This area is home to an impressive number of endemic species as well as more widespread, but still spectacular, birds.
Day 1: Lima-Santa Eulalia
This morning we will head out from Lima to Pantanos de Villa, a reserve at the southern end of Lima. Afterwards we make a stop at Pucusana for Surf Cinclodes, Red-legged Cormorant and Peruvian Pinguin. After lunch in Pucusana we will go to Puerto Viejo, where we should find Peruvian Thick-knee, as well as more common scrub birds. We will then drive up the Santa Eulalia Valley for an overnight in a rather basic hostal
Day 2: Santa Eulalia Valley
The dramatic Santa Eulalia valley holds several rare endemics which we will look for this morning. The rarest of these is the difficult Rufous-breasted Warbling-Finch which we will be lucky to find on scrubby hillsides. There are many more Andean species in the valley including other sought after endemics like Great Inca Finch and Bronze-tailed Comet. In the afternoon we will continue into the Milloc Valley. Interesting birds here include Black Metaltail, Striated Earthcreeper, Rusty-crowned Tit-Spinetail and dOrbigny´s Chat-Tyrant. We will set up camp just above 3000 m to acclimatize to the elevation so that we can be on site at dawn next morning for some truly spectacular birding.
Day 3: Milloc-Marcopomacocha
An early start will give us the best possible chance of a fabulous endemic
the White-cheeked Cotinga. This species is at home in the threatened Polylepis
habitat where the very rare White-tailed Shrike-Tyrant can sometimes also
be seen. As we drive through the scenic puna habitat towards Marcopomacocha,
we should find many other Andean species. Crossing over a high pass, we
will descend to a boggy area where we will search for the very rare but
regular White-bellied Cinclodes and the beautiful and unique Diademed Sandpiper-Plover.
From this majestic area we will drive back to Lima or continue with with
the Satipo Road (route L4) or the Central Highway (route L3).
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