4Day Manu Birding Road Tour

Day1: Cusco – Huacarpay – Huayquecha Biological Station

Today we leave at 5:30am from the hotel heading towards laguna Huacarpay which will take approximately 45 minutes where we can see the ENDEMIC Bearded Mountaineer that is a special hummingbird found in the area. It is not the only hummingbird you can see in the region of Cusco but it does not exist in other parts of the world. We can also observe many other types of birds such as: Plumbeous rail, Cinnamon teal, Puna teal, Yellow billed pintail, White tufted grebe, Cinereous harrier, Black chested buzzard Eagle, Streak fronted thornbird, Many colored rush tyrant, Rusty fronted canastero and creamy crested spinetail which are also an ENDEMIC birds, and many others; afterwards, we will have a quick breakfast and then continue looking for more birds around the lake. Later we will take the bus to Manu. Later we arrive in the highest part of the tour to have lunch at the entrance of the national park of Manu (3565masl.) From hear we will enter the cloud forest to see tanagers hummingbirds, antpittas, tyranulets, flycatchers, toucans and toucanets and many other bird species. We will arrive to our lodge Huayquecha around 4:30pm. At night before sleep we will look for Swallow tailed nightjars

Day2: Huayquecha Biological Station – Cock of the Rock Lodge

Today we will head to Cock of the Rock lodge. In the way we will search birds such as: Golden collared tanager, Grass green Tanager, Scaled metaltail, Mountain Cacique, white collared jay, Barred parakeet, Barred fruiteater, Band tailed fruiteater, Marcapata Spinetail , Red and white antpitta, Blue Banded Toucanet, Hooded Mountain Tanager, Black and Chestnut Eagle, Black solitary Eagle, White throated Antpitta, Slaty Tanager, Slaty Backed Chat tyrant, Fulvos Wren, Chestnut crested Cotinga, Crested Quetzal, Golden Headed Quetzal, Black Streaked Puffbird, Yellow Throated Tanager, Buff Breasted Mountain Tanager, Superciliary Hemispingus, and many more. Eventually we will arrive at the home of the exotic Peruvian National Bird, the “Cock of the Rock”, where it is known to gather with others of its kind for some sort of social gathering that seems reminiscent of a large courtship. You will find that this is quite an amazing spectacle complete with an impressive array of sounds and colours that can only be found in the jungle. This night we will look for Rufous-bellied Nighthawk.

Day3: Cock of the Rock Lodge – Pona Lodge

After breakfast we will drive towars our third lodge, in the way we will have chances to observe birds like Ornate flycatcher, Lanceolated monklet, Peruvian piedtail, Black backed tody flycatcher, Black faced tanager, blue headed Macaw, Chestnut fronted Macaw, Fiery capped Manakin, White eyed parakeet, Chestnut backed Antshrike, Golden Tanager, Orange eared Tanager, black solitary eagle, and much more. After reach Pona Lodge we will head towards our first hummingbird garden. At the this place we will be able to see: Rufous crested coquette, Violet headed humminbird, Golden tailed sapphire, koepcke´s Hermit, Amethyst woodstar, Rufous webbed Brilliant, and Gould´s jewelfront, Amazonian Antpitta, Blue headed macaw, Great Tinamou, Spot back antbird ,Hoalzin, Sungrebe, Chestnut capped puffbird among other birds. After dinner we will return to the trail to observe owls such as: Tawny bellied screech owl, Long tailed potoo, Black banded owl, Great potoo and Band Bellied owl.

Day4: Pona Lodge – Inka Amazonia Garden - Cusco

This Moring we will head towards our second garden, at this place we will add more species to our list including the Buff-tailed sicklebill, King Vulture, Lemon-throated Barbet, Scarlet-Hooded Barbet among other species of birds.
In the afternoon we will start with our journey back to Cusco where our services will end.