Neblina Forest Brochure 2017

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Peru; Highlands Endemics
12 days / 11 nights
Unchog forest
Lima
12 days - 11 nights
Departures
2016 - 2018
From: Lima
All year round
Best months:
Sept to March
Itinerary Resume
• 2 nights in Lima.
• 1 night Santa Eulalia.
• 2 nights la Oroya.
• 4 nights Huanuco.
Oroya
Santa Eulalia
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• 2 Nights Unchog ( camping )
Diademed Plover
Day 1
Arrival in Lima (107 m / 354 ft) and check
in at Lima Hotel.
Day 2
Early leaving to bird the Santa Eulalia
Road (840 m to 3700 m / 2,756 ft to
12,139 ft). Night camping in the Santa
Eulalia Road.
Day 3
Early morning birding the Highlands of
the Santa Eulalia road (3700 m to 4700
m / 12,139 ft to 15,420 ft) and in the late
afternoon heading to La Oroya (3977 m
/ 13047 ft) town to check in at basic but
clean hotel in La Oroya.
Day 4
Early morning leaving La Oroya heading
to Junín lake (4080 m / 13,386 ft) for the
morning and then birding transfer to
Huanuco (1794 m / 5,885 ft), stopping
in the way in La Quinua Polylepis forest.
Night in Huanuco Hotel.
Day 5
Early morning birding the forest along
the Carpish tunnel (2700 m / 8,859 ft),
depending on weather staying for the
entire day or returning to Huanuco to
rest and in the afternoon birding the
Carpish tunnel area. Night in Huanuco
Hotel.
Day 6
Early morning birding the Paty trail
(2350 m to 1900 m / 7,710 ft to 6,234 ft)
depending on weather staying for the
entire day or returning to Huanuco to
rest and in the afternoon birding the
Carpish tunnel area. Night in Huanuco
Hotel.
Day 7
A repeat of day 6 since the Paty trail is an
area well deserving more time.
Day 8
Early morning birding the forest in
the Carpish tunnel area and later in
the morning birding transfer to the
Unchog forest (3400 m / 10,200 ft). In
the afternoon birding the Unchog forest
area. Night camping in Unchog.
Day 9
Full day birding the Unchog area. Night
caming in Unchog.
Day 10
Early morning birding the Unchog
area and in the afternoon transfer back
to Huanuco with a stop on Paty trail
or Carpish tunnel if needed. Night in
Huanuco Hotel.
Day 11
Early morning leaving back to Lima
stoping in the way in the early morning
at the La Quinua Polylepis forest. In the
afternoon before returning to Lima a
stop in the area just above San Mateo.
Night in Lima Hotel.
Day 12
Transfer to airport for international flight
back home.
Specialist, bilingual bird guide.
Private transportation.
Accommodation at hotels.
Full meals.
White-bellied Cinclodes
SERVICES INCLUDED:
Domestic flights.
Landscaping, Trails, Birds.
Short & Long trail walks.
Photography.
Great Inca Finch
Target Birds & Wildlife:
Santa Eulalia Road: Ornate
tinamou, Andean condor, Bare-faced
ground-dove, Scarlet-fronted parakeet,
Mountain parakeet, Bronzetailed
comet *, Peruvian sheartail,
Black-necked woodpecker *, Thickbilled
miner *, Plain-breasted earthcreeper,
Striated earthcreeper *,
Canyon canastero *, Baron’s spinetail
*, Great Inca-finch *, Rufous-breasted
Warbling-finch *.
Upper zone: Black-breasted hillstar
*, Black metaltail *, Stripe-headed
antpitta, White-cheeked cotinga
*, Giant coot, Rufous-bellied
Seedsnipe, Gray-breasted Seedsnipe,
Diademed Sandpiper-plover (rare),
Dark-winged miner *, White-bellied
cinclodes *, Junín canastero *, Correndera
pitpit.
La Oroya to Junín lake: Cinereous
Harrier, Andean Goose, Junín grebe
Silvery grebe, Junín rail *, Andean
avocet, Puna plover, Puna snipe,
Common miner, Dark-winged miner
*, Black-breasted hillstar *, Correndera
pitpit. Short billed pitpit.
Carpish tunnel: Golden-plumed
parakeet, Chestnut antpitta *,
Tschudi´s tapaculo *, Large footed
tapaculo *, Unstreaked tit-tyrant *,
Inca flycatcher *, Black-andean tyrant,
Peruvian wren *, Yellow-scarfed
tanager *, Golden–collared tanager
and Masked saltator.
Paty trail: Bay antpitta *, Rusty
-breasted antpitta, Trilling tapaculo,
Masked fruiteater *, Peruvian wren *,
Plush-capped finch, Brown-flanked
tanager *.
Unchog Forest: Andean snipe,
Barred parakeet, Swallow-tailed
nightjar, Plenge´s thistletail *, Manystriped
canastero, Line-fronted canastero,
Coppery metaltail *, Tscudi´s
tapaculo *, Bay-vented cotinga *,
Rufous-browed hemispingus *,
Golden-backed mountain-tanager *,
Moustached flowerpiercer.
Rusty-crowned tit-spinetail *, Striated
earthcreeper *, Baron’s spinetail *,
Green-heade hillstar *, Streak-headed
antpitta, Rufous-backed Inca
finch *, Giant conebill, Thick-billed
siskin.
* Endemic to Peru
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