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Birding at WildSumaco, Ecuador
As part of a 10-day Andes East Slope birding tour (see last post), I stayed six nights at WildSumaco Lodge, which sits at 1500m in elevation and is around 4.5 hours east of Quito by road. With 675 bird species over all time according to eBird, it is the top hotspot by that measure in…
Birding the Andes East Slope, Ecuador
You might go birding in the lush rainforests of Ecuador’s Andes eastern slopes and end up saying to yourself: “Wow, what just happened?!” It’s that fabulous. The Andes East Slope refers to the range of the Andes mountains to the east of Quito, Ecuador’s capital city. The Andes rises from Quito’s 2800m elevation to over…
Birding at Isla Esteves, Lake Titicaca, Peru
In an ideal world this blog post would have been authoritatively called “Birding at Lake Titicaca”, as I would have canvassed a bunch of nature sites around the lake other than just Isla Esteves, where I spent four nights. Then I could have given a more comprehensive overview of the whole region. Alas, best laid…
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