Lima Birding Tours: Santa Eulalia Canyon

We start the tour at a Willow forest near the lower Santa Eulalia river, this area has proved to be reliable for species like Black-necked Woodpecker, Peruvian Pygmy-Owl, Collared Warbling-finch, Peruvian Sheartail, Blue-and-yellow Tanager, Bran-colored Flycatcher, Yellow-billed Tit-tyrant and Pied-crested Tit-tyrant.

Then we continue the road up to the mountains checking the river for the occasional Torrent Duck and White-capped Dipper. Before reaching the Autisha bridge we start looking for the endemic Great Inca-finch on the bushes along the road. Once we see this species we head to the bridge where Andean Condors are often seen flying high above the mountains. Andean and White-collared Swifts are not uncommon here.

Our last stop is the most rewarding, as species like Giant Hummingbird, Black Metaltail, Sparkling Violet-ear,  Bronze-tailed Comet, Rusty-crowned Tit-spinetail, Rusty-bellied Brush-finch and Canyon Canastero are seen.

• Transportation from your hotel or the airport to the localities mentioned in the tour description
  
• Professional birding guide
  
• Box lunch at Lomas de Lachay

If you wish to see more high-altitude birds, we recommend this option. Instead of returning to Lima, we will spend the night a local hotel with hot water on the Andes. The following day, early in morning, we’ll be at the lookout to spot Andean Condors soaring from their cliffs. Our past visits to the Polylepis forest have yielded lots of successful sightings of the rare and endemic White-cheeked Cotinga. Other bird species in the area include the Striated Earthcreeper, Stripe-headed Antpitta, Giant Conebill, Tit-like Dacnis, Rufous-webbed Bush-Tyrant, Torrent Duck, White-capped Dipper, Black Metailtail, and possibly the White-tailed Shrike-Tyrant, which has been spotted here twice. We’ll then proceed over the 4900m pass to the Milloc bog, where we may encounter rare species like the Puna Tinamou, Giant Coot, Gray-breasted and Rufous-bellied Seed-snipes, Puna Snipe, Andean Ibis, as well as our main targets: Diademed Sandpiper-Plover, Olivaceous Thornbill, the endemics Black-breasted Hillstar,White-bellied Cinclodes, Dark-winged Miner, and Junin Canastero; among many others. In the afternoon, we’ll return to Lima through the Carretera Central and we will in your hotel for dinner.