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Intense Birding, a tradition of good fun for Hobbyist and Specialist
The strongest motivation for these tours is getting to know most Bolivian endemic birds (20 plus other 20 almost-endemics), those of distribution restricted to less than 50.000 km2 (63 species inhabit Bolivia in Endemic Bird Areas or EBAs), the zoogeographical-endemics (238 species occur in Bolivia) and the threatened ones (70 species protected in Bolivia), or simply the most spectacular and interesting wings.
We don’t neglect the rest of the avifauna (1400 species for Bolivia in total), but the specialties of Bolivia are our priority. Anyway, we maximize the spotting chances by visiting more than 25 Protected Areas at national, departmental and municipal level with professional and well equipped birding guides.
The routes were specially designed to achieve this task. We take you to 7 of the 9 EBAs in Bolivia where they concentrate most of the species that we look for, we visit 14 of the 23 Important Bird Areas in Bolivia, plus other 7 potential IBAs, and we go to all the Avian Life Zones according to the Annotated List of the Birds of Bolivia (in our tours of intense Birding we cover heights between 200 and 5.000 m.a.s.l. and precipitations registered between 50 and 5000 mm of annual rainfall).
We recommend you to begin at-or-before dawn, in occasions we also continue after dusk. The pause at noon is generaly used to switch to the next town, habitat, lifezone or ecosystem.
Playback and spotlights are used moderately according to reactivity of the species, to their susceptibility, season of our visit, the frequency that those techniques are used in each location and to user’s desire.
BW 51-IN 1 Long Day Intense Birding in 4WD to Interandean Valleys and Mountain ChacoBW 42-IN 2Days/1Night Intense Birding in Refugio Volcanes with 4WD and Trilingual Birding GuideBW 43-IN 3Days/2Nights Intense Birding in Refugio Volcanes with 4WD and Trilingual Birding GuideBW 52-IN 1 Long Day Intense Birding in 4WD to Cloudforest of Amboró NPBW 53-IN 1 Long Day Intense Birding in 4WD to Interandean ValleysBW 55-IN 2Days/1Night Intense Birding in 4WD to Tucuman Forest and Cloud ForestBW 56-IN 2Days/1Night Intense Birding, 4WD to Interandean Valley & Cloud forestBW 57-IN 3Days/2Nights Intense Birding in 4WD to Valleys and Cloud forest -
Birding Light or birding while enjoying the natural and cultural Bolivian landscape!
A way of watching birds for who is attracted to Bolivia mostly by its wings, but doesn’t want to miss the oppertunity to know something more about the country. Or for the birds’ enthusiast that wants to come accompanied in this oppertunity by friends or relatives for who birds are very interesting but not the priority.
Therefore, the itineraries link the places with the special birds of Bolivia, allowing us to be there at the right birding time, while sight-seeing natural and cultural highlights is done at noon or after several days outdoors. We highlight in the detailed programs the endemic and almost endemic species, with restricted distribution, rare, threatened or simply spectacular.
Essentially we enjoy the showiest birds, or we look for those with highest probabilities of being seen, although using the expertise of our professional birding guides and all the necessary birding gear. We won’t make the effort in viewing that hidden Antpitta in a forest of mysterious beauty or we won’t try to identify all the small different Flycatchers of the canopy until completing a list. In that way we get time to also interpret the Bolivian nature and culture, living a diversified and relaxed experience while obtaining a list that is at least 70% of which you would obtain in a hard core birding tour anyway.
Also specially interesting if you are coming in the rainy season, because some days of rain in these tours is not a disaster, since we will interest you in visiting an interpretation center, to admire the colonial architecture in town or assist to a local cultural event.
BW 00-LI 1 long Day Birding Light. Hike to the Condors’ Cliff and their tiered WaterfallBW 03-LI 2Days/1Night Birding Light. Valleys plus Subtropical and Cloud Forests
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