Birding Northern Peru
Chasing the Marvelous Spatuletail
May 16 - 31, 2028
Register by clicking the ‘book now’ button above, or by contacting the Ventures office. We accept credit cards for an additional fee (2.9% for MC, Visa, Discover; 3.9% for AmEx), but you may also pay by bank transfer, cash, check, or money order. This Venture is limited to 10 participants.
Leaders: Simon Thompson & Mark Welford
You can combine this with our Central Peru trip from June 2-12, 2028
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Birds We Hope to See
Surf Cinclodes, Blackish Oystercatcher, Inca Tern, Humboldt Penguin, Red-legged Cormorant, Peruvian Booby, Peruvian Pelican, Belcher’s gull, Peruvian Plantcutter, Rufous Flycatcher, White‐tailed Jay, Tumbes Swallow, Necklaced Spinetail, Grey-and-white tyrannulet, White‐edged Oriole, White-winged Guan, Tumbes Hummingbird, Tumbes Tyrant, Cinereous Finch, Sulphur-throated Finch, Collared Warbling-Finch, Piura Chat-Tyrant, Chapman’s Antshrike, Elegant Crescentchest, Ecuadorian Piculet, Bay-winged Brushfinch, White-winged Brushfinch, White-headed Brush-Finch, Black-capped Sparrow, Sooty-crowned Flycatcher, Pacific Elaenia, Gray-breasted Flycatcher, Tumbes Pewee, Henna-hooded & Rufous-necked Foliage-Gleaners, Guayaquil Woodpecker, Black-chested Fruiteater, Purple-throated Sunangel, Black-eared Hemispingus, Piura Hemispingus, Speckled-chested Wren (Marañón race), Black-capped Sparrow (Marañón race), Chinchipe Spinetail, Marañón Spinetail, Marvelous Spatuletail, Royal Sunangel, Bar-winged Wood-Wren, Inca Flycatcher, White-faced Nunbird, Yellow-scarfed and Green-throated Tanagers, White-capped Tanager, Chestnut-crested Cotinga, Chestnut, Rusty-tinged, and Ochre-fronted Antpittas, Long-whiskered Owlet, Cinnamon Screech-Owl, Yungas Pygmy-Owl, Equatorial Greytail, Ecuadorian Piedtail, Olivaceous Greenlet, Ecuadorian Tyrannulet, Versicolored Barbet, Rufous-crested Coquette, Koepcke's & Black-throated Hermits, Golden-tailed Sapphire, Sapphire-spangled Emerald, Mishana Tyrannulet, Painted Manakin, Marañon Thrush, Peruvian Pigeon, Pale-billed Antpitta, Chachapoyas Antpitta, Russet-mantled Softtail, Unstreaked Tit-Tyrant, Red-hooded Tanager and Golden-browed Chat-Tyrant.
Northern Peru offers perhaps the most diverse birding route on earth, spanning Tumbesian dry forests, arid Marañón valleys, and humid Andean cloud forests to the Amazon lowlands. Key highlights include searching for the White-winged Guan, the spectacular Marvelous Spatuletail, the elusive Long-whiskered Owlet and Rufous-capped Thornbills. The region is a hotspot for endemics, including the Royal Sunangel, Rusty-tinged Antpitta, and White-masked Antbird. This route provides unmatched species diversity, blending high-altitude birding with rich hummingbird and tanager viewing in the region’s cloud forests.
Cost $6700 per person from Lima, Peru, $700 single supplement. This includes a private pelagic trip, all transportation including domestic flights, all admission fees, information packet & bird checklist, and services of one Ventures tour leader and one local guide, all accommodations, and three meals per day (breakfast, lunch/ picnic or box lunch depending upon where we are, and dinner, and snacks and water).
Not included: Alcoholic beverages, gratuities, laundry, and items of a personal nature.
