Northern Ecuador: Birding with a Camera® (BwC)

Ecuador is world famous for its amazing number or variety of birds. This BwC tour visits renowned birding sites that are also terrific for bird photography. There will be feeders at nearly every place we visit, though we will not limit ourselves to just those, as we will also bird along dirt roads, easy trails, and even a canopy tower, to see large numbers of species, and try to photograph as many of them as possible. The “jewels of the Andes”, the hummingbirds and tanagers, will feature heavily, and we are sure to enjoy numerous delectable species including White-booted Racket-tail, Violet-tailed Sylph, Velvet-purple Coronet, Flame-faced Tanager, Glistening-green Tanager, and Black-chinned Mountain-Tanager among a horde of other memorable species. While hummingbirds and tanagers are undoubtedly a major feature of this tour, they will also be accompanied by other colorful tropical birds, such as a bevy of toucans, trogons, woodpeckers, and even the incredible, vivid scarlet Andean Cock-of-the-rock, one of the most outstanding birds in the world.