Santa Eulalia, Milloq Bog

Santa Eulalia, Milloq Bog

  • 1 DAY - 2 DAYS

Peru Birding Tours provides the chance for birding Santa Eulalia Canyon, Milloq Bogs, Andean Lakes, small Polylepis forest patch. The birding starts from 700 m along the arid mountains at Santa Eulalia and get up to around 4,800 m at the pic. The scenery of the area is a spectacular landscape overview. There are several species only found along this valley and mountains.

This tour is mainly driving with several stops for our targets species such as Great Inca-finch, Black Metaltail, Black-necked Woodpecker, Peruvian Pygmy-Owl, Bronze-tailed Comet, White-cheeked Continga, Rufous-bellied Brush-finch, White-bellied Cinclodes all ENDEMICS but for sure we will find several other species!

DAY 1: Santa Eulalia-Milloq Bog - Marcapomacochas

We will pick you up from your hotel around 4:30 am and start our drive up to Santa Eulalia entrance for about 2 hours for our first stop for birding. then we will keep driving up the canyon for more species and we hope to get in time for the Andean condor view. Them we will reach small Polylepis area, bogs, and Marcapomacochas lake. We will have a picnic lunch to increase our time birding up tom mountain on the way to Marcapomacochas area. Dinner and night in Small Hotel.

DAY 2: Milloq Bog - Ticlio - Lima

 Early breakfast and we will start driving up again the mountains to get more species. we will pass nearby a small Polylepis forest, small lagoons, bogs where we will be at 4,200 m high where we need to walk slowly and try to get some target species: White-bellied Cinclodes, Puna Snipe, Canasteros, Seedsnipes. From the higher part of the road, we will start to drive slow down to get the main central pave highway for our drive straight to Lima. We usually arrive around 5:00 pm

Target Species: Rufous-breasted Warbling-Finch, Bronze-tailed Comet, Black-necked Woodpecker, Striated Earthcreeper, Rusty-crowned Tit-Spinetail, Canyon Canastero and Rusty-bellied Brush-Finch, Peruvian Pygmy-Owl, Andean Condor, Great Inca-Finch, Bare-faced Ground-Dove, Andean Swift,  Peruvian Sheartail, Purple-collared Woodstar, Pied-crested Tit-Tyrant, Yellow-billed Tit-tyrant, White-browed Chat-Tyrant, White-capped Dipper, Chiguanco Thrush, Cinereous Conebill, Blue-capped Tanager, Mourning Sierra-Finch, Band-tailed Seedeater, Golden-bellied Saltator, Striated Earthcreeper, White-winged Diuca-Finch, Peruvian Sierra Finch, Diademed Plover, White-bellied Cinclodes (E), Andean Goose, Andean Condor, Puna Snipe, Giant Coot, Andean Hillstar, Mountain Caracara, Andean Flicker, Dorbignys Chat-Tyrant and many more.

TOUR TIME 1 DAY - 2 DAYS  
GROUPE SIZE FROM 2 to 10 People  
TOUR DATES Book at any Time, fixed and custom dates   
PRICE PER PERSON FOR 1 DAY US$ 350.00 per person  
PRICE PER PERSON FOR 2 DAY US$ 700.00 per person  
TOUR PACE & WALKING Easy with some high altitud areas
EASY OF BIRDING Easy wlaking with long drive on a dirt road
PHOTOGRAPHIC CHANCE Excellent
   
INCLUDE Pick up, meals, hotel, private transport, driver and birding guide
NOT INCLUDE International/domestic flights,hotel, phone calls, extra activities