Neblina Forest Brochure 2017

Lowlands, Highlands & Andes
16 days / 15 nights
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Lago Titicaca
Coroico Refugio
La Paz Cerro Tunari Los Volcanes
Cochabamba
Santa Cruz
Comarapa Lomas de Arena
Mizque Valley Siberia CF
16 days - 15 nights
Departures
2016 - 2018
From: Santa Cruz
All year round
Best months:
August to April
Itinerary Resume
• 1 Night in Santa Cruz.
• 2 Nights at los Volcanes.
• 2 Nights in Monte Blanco.
• 2 Nights in Cochabamba.
• 1 Night in La Paz.
• 2 Nights in San Bartolome.
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Hooded-Mountain-Toucan
Day 1
Start birding right upon arrival to Santa
Cruz “Viru Viru” Airport (373 m / 1,224 ft.).
Then have lunch and a rest at our hotel
before doing some more birding in the
late afternoon. Overnight in Santa Cruz.
Day 2
Early morning visit to Santa Cruz
Botanical Garden. Drive to Refugio Los
Volcanes and Amboro National Park
(Park altitude range: 300 m to 2,000 m
/ 984 ft to 6,300 ft). Overnigth in Los
Volcanes.
Days 3 & 4
Birding the Amboro National Park
around Los Volcanes.
Day 5: Birding Los Volcanes and drive to
Tambo (1,676 m / 5,500 ft). Includes a
two hour birding stop at Samaipata, and
other selected birding stops on the way.
Overnight in Monte Blanco Hotel.
Day 6 & 7
Birding the dry habitats near the Villages
of Comarapa (1,886 m / 6,190 ft) and
Tambo. Then drive to Siberia (2,400
to 2,750 m / 8,000 ft to 9,000 ft), the
southernmost limit of humid-temperate
cloud forest in South America. Overnight
in Siberia Monte Blanco Hotel.
Day 8
Transfer to Cochabamba (2,569 m /
8,431 ft) with two stops: a Polylepis
Forest and Dry temperate scrub forest.
Lunch at an excellent birding place for
Citron-headed Yellow-Finch Overnight in
Cochabamba (Hotel Regina).
Day 9 & 10
Bird the new road from Santa Cruz to
Cochabamba, probably the best birding
site in South America. Overnights in
Cochabamba (Hotel Regina).
Day 11
Sunrise birding on Cerro Tunari (5,180
m / 16,995 ft) above Cochabamba (Road
access up to 4,400 m / 14,436 ft), from
the lower slopes to the Polylepis forest
and the Puna. Overnight in Cochabamba
(Hotel Regina).
Day 12
Birding morning at Laguna Alalay (2,560
m / 8,399 ft). Afternoon flight to La Paz
(3,829 m / 12,562 ft). Overnight in La Paz.
Day 13
Full day birding the road through the
Cordillera Real, to Coroico. Selected
stops including Cotapata and others
along the Yungas Road to Chulumani
(1,523 m / 4,999 ft). Overnight in San
Bartolome.
Day 14 & 15
Full day birding the Apa Apa Ecological
Reserve, indeed probably one of the
best birding sites in Bolivia. Overnights:
San Bartolome.
Day 16
Birding back to La Paz. Looking for some
species we may have missed.
If the conditions are proper, we will
stop in at selected locations of Cotapata
National Park (3,000 m / 9,843 ft).
Specialist, bilingual bird guide.
Private transportation.
Accommodation at hotels
and lodges.
SERVICES INCLUDED:
Domestic flights.
Landscaping, Trails, Birds.
Short & Long trail walks.
Target Birds:
Santa Cruz Airport: Whistling heron,
Rufous-rumped or White-bellied seedeater,
white-bellied nothura, Guira cuckoo,
White-eared puffbird, White-rumped monjita,
Toco toucan, White woodpecker, Campo
flicker, Chotoy spinetail, Fawn-breasted
wren, Red-legged seriema.
Refugio Los Volcanes: Mitred, Bluecrowned,
Green-cheecked and Bolivian
Tapaculo, Slaty Gnateater, Two-banded
warbler, Spectacled owl, Black-banded
woodcreeper, Black-capped antwren,
White-backed fire-eye, Yungas manakin,
Plush-crested jay, Bolivian recurvebill,
Black-goggled tanager, Blue-naped
euphonia.
Samaipata: Huayco and Tataupa
Tinamous, Bare-faced ground dove, Giant
Antshrike, Ochre-faced Tody-flycatcher,
Black and Rufous Warbling-finch.
Tambo, Comarapa: Red-fronted macaw*,
White-wedge piculet, Narrow-billed woodcreeper,
Large-tailed dove, Stripe-crowned
spinetail, Ocellated piculet, Golden-breasted
and Creamed backed woodcreepers,
Bolivian earthcreeper*, Greater wagtail-tyrant,
Cliff flycatcher, Safron-billed sparrow
and Ultramarine grosbeak.
Siberia: Maquis canastero*, Grey-bellied
flowerpiercer, Wedge- tailed hillstar,
Citron-headed yellow-finch, Red-tailed
comet, Olive-crowned crescentchest,
Rusty browed Warbling, Spot-breasted
thornbird, Rufous-sided Warbling-finch.
Cerro Tunari: Grey-hooded parakeet, Redtailed
comet, Grey-bellied flowepiercer,
and the endemic Bolivian blackbird, Rock
earthcreeper, Rufous-bellied saltator, Rufous-sided
warbling-finch, Giant conebill,
Bolivian warbling-finch*, Cochabamba
mountain-finch* and Wedge-tailed
hillstar*/ Andean hillstar, Plain-breasted
earthcreeper, White-winged cinclodes,
Black-hooded sierra-finch, Bright-rumped
yellow-finch.
Lake Titicaca and Sorata: Titicaca flightless
grebe, White-tufted grebe, Puna teal,
Andean ruddy duck, Andean negrito, Black
siskin and Yellow-winged blackbird, Giant
coot, Berlepsch’s canastero* and several
ground-tyrants.
* Endemic to Bolivia
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Full meals.
Giant Antshrike
White-bellied Seedeater