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 Qoyllur Tours bird watching tours are customer designed tours on special request, depending
on the size of the group, the time available and the special interests, as well as the region you are
interested to visit.
Peru is famous for its bird watching opportunities in the rainforest areas. However there are many more
interesting bird habitats. Qoyllur Tours offers you to combine marine and coastal bird watching:
High seas
Coastal marine areas
Beaches
and the visit of the following terrestrial bird habitats:
Birdwatching in Limas Parks
Coastal wetlands (Please note: Visits of the Paracas National Reserve, being listed as a Ramsar site
and wetland, are considered by us as visits in a coastal marine area – see link above)
Terrestrial and Andean Habitats
Desert Lomas
Manu rainforest
In order to book your marine bird watching tour click here
Bird watching in Limas Parks
 Start your nature experience right in Peru’s capital. We will take you in the early morning or at any other time of the day to walk in one of Limas most beautiful parks: El Olivar. Being a former olive tree plantation you now can observer here – in the middle of San Isidro/Lima - hawks, parrots, hummingbirds, wild doves and many other birds some as colorful as the Vermilion Flycatcher or the Saffron Finch.
Read more and find out about our city - bird watching tour.
See a species list with pictures of birds registered in the park
Coastal Wetlands
 Between the shoreline and the desert Peru does count with nearly a hundred coastal wetlands, mostly areas where underground water pressures up to the surface creating swampy conditions and lagoons, as well as the mouths of rivers. These wetlands can be small green patches or saltwater lagoons in the desert or can cover many square kilometers. Even though under intense pressure from contamination, destruction by urban development, agriculture, as well as unregulated hunting, fishing and tourism activities, many of these wetlands are still home to an amazing diversity of bird species. Coastal wetlands are areas where birdwatchers can experience how different bird communities meet and mingle in the same place from marine birds and shore birds to species known from lakes, agricultural and urban areas, native species and migratory birds.
Travel with us to watch birds along the Peruvian coast.
Terrestrial Habitats
The Peruvian coast and the western Andean slopes do offer a wide range of dry-forest-types, agricultural landscapes and river valleys as well as Andean high altitude habitats, being home to a great diversity of birds.
See here a species list of bird species from the coast and the western Andean slopes
Desert Lomas
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Lachay National Reserve © Heinz Plenge |
During the so called winter months (May – August) the first few kilometers
of Peruvian desert coast from the shoreline landwards are many times covered by a thick condensation fog. This humidity condensating on rocks and hillsides provides the water for temporal vegetation to grow. Within weeks the desert sand is covered by thick green vegetation, even tree-trunks – that appear to be dead during most of the year- become green with leaves and do flower. The entire lifecycle of these temporal oasis habitats (Loma) is squeezed into a few months of the year and then - in summer - everything dries out and dies away, waiting for the next winter fog to bring water. Not only vegetation also birds, mammal and insect species have adapted to this fast rhythm and do populate the Lomas habitat. It is an amazing nature experience to walk a desert habitat and sense the intensity of life surrounded by desert. Visit with us the Loma habitat of the Lachay National Reserve, located 105 km northwards of Lima and covering an area of 5070 hectars.
Find out about travel packages and costs for visiting the Lachay National Reserve
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Male vermilion flycatcher |
Hooded siskin |
Manu rainforest
The jungles of the department of Madre de Dios are some of the least disturbed tropical rainforests left in the world. The department still retains more than 85% of its original forest cover, and is home to healthy populations of animals which have all but disappeared in other areas of the Amazon: jaguar, harpy eagle and the large macaws of the genus Ara.
Qoyllur Tours exciting Manu rainforest program offers you a unique chance to observe several threatened and fascinating rainforest species like Makaws and other parrot species, tapirs, giant river otters and many other bird and mammal species. If you always wanted to experience pristine rainforest and obtain a profound understading of rainforest ecology – then this is your chance.
Read more about the Manu rainforest tour
See a movie of the Makaw Lick at Blanquillo lodge in the Manu area
Read more about
the Blanquillo lodge
See a movie about a walk on a typical rainforest trail
Find out about costs and travel packages to the Manu
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See here a species 
