DAY 1: Arrive in Lima - International Jorge Chavez Aiport

Welcome at Lima airport and transfer to our hotel selected. Night in Lima

DAY 2: Flight to Iquitos - Boat Trip along the Amazon River

Today we will have a morning flight to Iquitos Northeast of Peru. When we arrive there, we will transfer to the main river port, for our fast boat trip down the Amazon River to Yanamono Creek where is located our first birding spot. We might see along the river banks Large-billed and Yellow-billed Terns, White-winged, White-banded Swallows, and with good luck one of the two species of river dolphins. After all our accommodations at the lodge, we will spend birding around the lodge for White-eyed, Dusky-headed, and Cobalt-winged Parakeets, Blue-headed and Short-tailed Parrots, White-eared Jacamar, Black-fronted Nunbird, Tui Parakeet, Glittering-throated Emerald, Scarlet-crowned Barbet, Orange-fronted Plushcrown, Straight-billed and Long-billed Woodcreepers, Pygmy Antwren, White-winged Becard, Red-capped Cardinal, Hooded and Masked Crimson Tanagers, Thick-billed and Purple-throated Euphonias, Greyish Saltator, Orange-eyed Flycatcher, Pale-billed (Bay) Hornero, and several other species. We will try for some owls before dinner. Night in Explorama Lodge

DAY 3: Full-day birding along different habitat

Morning birding nearby river islands for Red-and-white Spinetail, Blue-winged Parrotlets, Brownish Elaenia, Streaked Flycatcher, Bicoloured Conebill and Pearly-breasted Conebill, Lettered Aracari, Plain-breasted Piculet, Spot-breasted Woodpecker and the restricted-range Leaden Antwren, Ash-breasted Antbird and Zimmers Woodcreeper and with good luck Festive Amazon, Amazonian Umbrellabird. Then we will have another boat trip to our Next birding lodge. Explornapo Lodge, and the Amazon Conservatory for Tropical Studies (ACTS) near the famous canopy walkway. From here we will bird the forest trails as we walk to ACTS for our three nights there. 

Days 4-5 Birding the trails and Canopy Walkway

Mornings birding for canopy mixed flocks for White-throated and Channel-billed Toucans, Purple-throated and Golden-bellied Euphonias, Paradise, Green-and-gold, Turquoise, Bay-headed, Opal-rumped and Opal-crowned Tanagers, Black-faced, Yellow-bellied, and Blue Dacnises and Green, Short-billed and Purple Honeycreepers, Red-and-green Macaws, Maroon-tailed Parakeets, Sapphire-rumped Parrotlets, Orange-cheeked and Black-headed Parrots, and Orange-winged and Mealy Amazons, Ivory-billed and Many-banded Aracaris, Purple-throated and Bare-necked Fruitcrows, Piratic Flycatchers, White-fronted Nunbird, Lineated Woodcreeper, Moustached and Dugands Antwrens, White-lored, Slender-footed and Yellow-crowned Tyrannulets, Grey and Forest Elaenias, Pink-throated Becard, Black-bellied Cuckoo, Paradise Jacamar, Golden-collared Toucanet, Yellow-browed Tody-Flycatcher, Double-toothed Kite, Red-throated Caracaras, Grey-rumped, Pale-rumped and Lesser Swallow-tailed Swifts, White-necked Puffbird, Spangled Cotinga, Band-tailed and Casqued Oropendolas, Black-faced Hawk, White-browed Purpletuft and several other species.

We also spend time birding along the forest trails for Purplish or Yellow-billed Jacamar, Black-tailed Trogon, Pavonine Quetzal, Collared Puffbird, Lanceolated Monklet and Rusty-breasted Nunlet, Striped Woodhaunter, Olive-backed Foliage-gleaner, Short-tailed and Black-tailed Leaftossers, Spot-throated and Ocellated Woodcreepers. We usually find an army-ant swarm crossing the trails with the chance to watch Plain-brown and White-chinned Woodcreepers, Sooty, Scale-backed, White-plumed, Bicoloured and Hairy-crested Antbirds, and Reddish-winged Bare-eye and even Red-billed Ground Cuckoo. Most antbirds are not obligate ant-swarm followers but will provide chances to see Fasciated, Undulated, Plain-winged, and Mouse-coloured Antshrikes, Black-faced, Warbling, Yellow-browed and Spot-winged Antbirds and Rufous-capped and Black-faced Antthrushes, Striated Antthrush, Ochre-striped Antpitta, Golden-headed Manakin, Blue-backed Manakins.

we will bird terra firme trails searching for White-throated Tinamou, Ornate Hawk-Eagle, Marbled Wood-Quail, Grey-fronted Dove, Great-billed, Straight-billed and Reddish Hermits, Green-backed and Black-throated Trogons, Great Jacamar, Chestnut-capped Puffbird, Rusty-belted Tapaculo, Black-and-white Tody-Tyrant, Amazonian Scrub Flycatcher, Brownish Twistwing, Bright-rumped Attila, Ruddy-tailed, Whiskered, Variegated and Dusky-chested Flycatchers, Dwarf Tyrant-Manakin, Musician Wren, Buff-rumped Warbler, Yellow-bellied Tanager, Slate-coloured Grosbeak. During the evenings we will try for some nocturnal species such as Nocturnal Curassow, Short-tailed Nighthawk, Northern Tawny-bellied Screech Owl, Long-tailed Potoo, and Crested Owl. Nights in ACTS

DAY 6: Birding & boat trip back to our First Lodge

Morning birding ad then we will back to Explornapo Lodge. We will do some afternoon birding along some of the trails and lodge surroundings and some birding for Owls before dinner. Night in Explornapo.

DAYS 7: Birding along the trails  

We will have a chance to explore different types of forests such as floodplains, and the seasonally flooded Varzea forest and visit the nearby river islands of various sizes dotting the Napo River in this part of Peru. We will search for Screaming Piha, Purple-throated Cotinga, Ringed Antpipit, Short-tailed and Double-banded Pygmy Tyrants, Ochre-bellied Flycatcher and Golden-crowned Spadebill, Orange-eyed Flycatcher, Fulvous Shrike-Tanager may lead us to a sub-canopy flock made up of Chestnut-winged Hookbill, Buff-throated Woodcreeper, Spot-winged Antshrike, Rufous-bellied Euphonia, and Yellow-backed and Flame-crested Tanagers. Occasionally, Red-stained, Yellow-throated, Chestnut and Cream-coloured Woodpeckers, Cinereous and Dusky-throated Antshrikes, Cinnamon-rumped Foliage-gleaner, White-flanked Antwren, and Spixs and Wedge-billed Woodcreepers.

The floodplain canopy provides Lemon-throated and Gilded Barbets, Chestnut-shouldered Antwren, Zimmers Flatbill and Wing-barred Piprites, White-chinned Jacamar, Red-necked Woodpecker, Buff-throated Foliage-Gleaner, Slate-coloured Antbird, Grey Antbird, Wire-tailed, Blue-crowned and Striped Manakin, Banded Antbird, Chestnut-belted Gnateater, Thrush-like Antpitta, Lunulated Antbird, Black-spotted Bare-eye, Black-necked Red-Cotinga, and for river islands of the Napo river will we might find Lesser Hornero, White-bellied, Dark-breasted and Parkers Spinetails, the restricted-range Castelnaus Antshrike, and the striking, restricted-range Black-and-white Antbird. As we approach the shore we will look for Shiny Cowbirds and Yellow-hooded Blackbirds, Chestnut-bellied, Lined and Caqueta Seedeaters and Oriole Blackbirds, and White-headed Marsh-Tyrants, Olive-spotted Hummingbirds, Orange-headed Tanager and Yellow-browed Sparrow, Lesser Wagtail-Tyrant and Riverside Tyrant, Black-capped Donacobius, White-shouldered, Plumbeous, Silvered and Dot-backed Antbirds, Yellow-crowned Elaenia, Johanness Tody-Tyrant and Buff-breasted Wren. In trees overhead, we may find the retiring Slate-coloured Hawk, Amazonian Trogon, Dusky-capped, Olive-faced and Grey-crowned Flycatchers, Little and Lineated Woodpeckers, Varzea Thrush, Buff-throated Saltator, Rufescent Tiger Heron, Agami Heron, Great Black Hawk, American Pygmy and Green-and-rufous Kingfishers, Pied and Spotted Puffbirds, Black-chinned Antbird, Plum-throated Cotinga and the localized Velvet-fronted Grackle, Grey-necked Wood Rail, Sungrebe, Sunbittern, Rufous-breasted Hermit, Fork-tailed Woodnymph, Blue-and-yellow Macaws, Speckled Chachalaca, Crane and Short-tailed Hawks, Pale-vented, Plumbeous and Ruddy Pigeons, Pheasant Cuckoo, Ferruginous Pygmy Owl, Pauraque, Short-tailed Swift, Pale-tailed Barbthroat, Amazonian Barred Woodcreeper, White-necked Thrush, the skulking Coraya Wren and Collared Gnatwren, Sand-coloured Nighthawk. Nights in Explornapo

DAY 8 Birding & Boat trip to the Amazon River

Morning birding and then we will start our boat trip upstream on the Amazon River, Yanayacu River where is located our last Lodge in Iquitos. Some afternoon birding. Night in Muyuna Lodge.

DAY 9: Full-day birding along trails and Varzea 

We will have a full day searching for the rare Wattled Curassow in an area of the várzea forest, an oxbow lake and a nearby river island. These extensive floodplain habitats will provide us to find Muscovy Duck, Striated Heron, Black-crowned Night Heron, Black-collared Hawk, Hook-billed Kite, Laughing Falcon, Purple Gallinule, Wattled Jacana, Hoatzin, Little Cuckoo, Ladder-tailed Nightjar (at its daytime roost), Swallow-winged Puffbird, Sulphury Flycatcher, White-eyed Attila and Lesser Kiskadee. And along the trails through varzea and riverine forest hold Cinereous and Undulated Tinamous, Blue Ground Dove, Collared Trogon, Olivaceous and Striped Woodcreepers, Plain-crowned Spinetail, Great, Amazonian and Barred Antshrikes, Black-throated Antbird, Southern Beardless Tyrannulet, Rusty-fronted Tody-Flycatcher, Olivaceous Flatbill, Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher, Cinnamon Attila, Black-tailed Tityra, Varzea Schiffornis, Grey-headed Tanager, Lesser Seed Finch and Solitary Cacique, Black-tailed Antbird, Blue-cheeked Jacamar, Rufous-necked Puffbird and Saturnine Antshrike, Boat-billed and Zigzag Herons, Blue-chinned Sapphire, Rose-fronted Parakeet, Chestnut-capped Puffbird, Rufous-capped Nunlet, Point-tailed Palmcreeper, Slender-billed Xenops, Amazonian Antshrike and Grey-chested Greenlet.

DAY 10: Birding and Back to Iquitos

Morning birding and then we will back to Iquitos town. If time permits we will have some afternoon birding at Allpahuayo-Mishana Reserve along the white sand forest. Dinner & Night in Iquitos

DAY 11: Full-day Birding along the White Sand Forest

Today we will have a full day searching for Ancient Antwren, Allpahuayo Antbird, Mishana Tyrannulet, Iquitos Gnatcatcher, Brown-banded Puffbird, Pompadour Cotinga, Pearly Antshrike, Northern Chestnut-tailed (or Zimmers) Antbird, Orange-crested (or Orange-crowned) Manakin, Saffron-crested Tyrant-Manakin, Zimmers Tody-Tyrant, Fuscous ‘Campina’ Flycatcher, Cinnamon-crested Spadebill, Citron-bellied Attila and Yellow-throated Flycatcher. More widespread species include Dusky-billed Parrotlet, Canary-winged Parakeet, Goulds Jewelfront, White-chested Puffbird, Yellow-billed Nunbird, Scaly-breasted Woodpecker, Plain-throated Antwren, White-crowned and White-bearded Manakins, Rufous-tailed Flatbill, Greyish Mourner, Thrush-like Schiffornis, Dusky-capped Greenlet, Southern Nightingale-Wren, Red-legged Honeycreeper and several others species found at Alpahuayo-Mishana Reserve. Dinner & Night in Iquitos.

DAY 12: Birding & Flight to Lima

Morning birding for some missing species and then we will have our last lunch to celebrate our amazing Amazon birding in Iquitos.