White-Masked Antbird
This itinerary covers a wide range of ecosystems in the Amazon and lowland areas along the Marañón River, including tropical forests, cloud forests, highland dry forests, and coastal dry forests in Peru, among others. We offer our clients the flexibility to choose the region they want to explore or the bird species they want to observe or photograph. Our team will organize their trip in the best possible way, with an itinerary of at least 4 days to ensure an enriching experience.
Arriveing Day
We arrive in Tarapoto from Lima airport in 1 hour and 20 minutes. We will be picked up at the airport and transferred to Yurimaguas, which will take approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes. We should arrive in Yurimaguas to take the flight the next day.
Hotel Rio Huallaga-Yurimaguas.
Day 1
We took a short flight from Yurimaguas to San Lorenzo, a small plane with capacity for 5 people. The flight lasted approximately 30 minutes and started around 8 a.m. from Yurimaguas. Once in San Lorenzo, we headed to the hotel and spent the rest of the day at the birding area, which is 30 minutes by local mototaxi from the hotel. We look for species such as the white-masked antbird, the black-necked red cotinga, the white-throated tinamou, the marbled tinamou and the bartlett's, among others.
Hotel la posada del Apu-San Lorenzo.
Day 2
For the full morning, we explored the masked antpitta area in search of all the specialties we needed to find. After lunch, we focus on searching for other special birds, such as Black-banded crake, Buckley's wood hawk, Pale-tailed bar-tailed woodpecker, Paradise jacamar and many more.
Hotel la posada del Apu-San Lorenzo.
Day 3
We took the first flight back to Yurimaguas and continued to Tarapoto, with a stop at a birding site called ACONAKIKH. There, we had the opportunity to see the collared puffin, the rufous-headed monjillo, the white-feathered antbird, the hairy-crested bird and many other species.
Hotel Rio Cumbaza-Tarapoto.
Day 4
We can choose to continue our itinerary to the north of Peru from Tarapoto or simply choose to transfer to the airport.
Airport.
