Birdwatching at Abra Málaga – Ipal Lodge 2d1n – MachupicchuCusco Peru

Birdwatching at Abra Málaga – Ipal Lodge 2d1n – MachupicchuCusco Peru

Abra Malaga is also very important because it is an ecosystem that is made up of the last forests

of Queuña (Polylepissp.), extremely fragile, being also the place where the most endangered flora

and fauna in South America live.

Although the forests that are within this Conservation Area are popular and highly prized by

specialists and amateurs for the practice of bird watching, the diversity of these has diminished

considerably in recent years, even so endemic birds can be seen, such as: Inca wren, Marcapata

spinetail, Creamy crested spinetail, White browed tit spinetail, Chestnut breasted mountain finch,

Vilcabamba tapaculo, Royal cinclodes, White tufted sunbean, Beardered mountaineer, among

others.

Itinerary

Day 1: Cusco or Ollantaytambo - Abra Málaga - Ipal Lodge

Stop At: Ábra Málaga, Ábra de Málaga (4316 m.s.n.m.), Cuzco 08675, Peru
You will be pick up at your hotel in a van at 5:00 am to drive in direction of Abra Málaga, in the route

you will stop in several strategic points in order to see some endemic birds and other most difficult

to observe, living in specific microclimates, like:

Endemic Birds:
- Chestnut-breasted Mountain Finch
- White-tufted Sunbean
- Creamy-crested Spinetail
- Rusty fronted Canastero
- Bearded Mountaineer
- White-browed Tit-spinetail
- Royal Cinclodes
- Junín Canastero

More complicated birds to spot
- Puna Thistletail
- Tawny Tit-spinetail
- Giant Conebill
- Blue-mantled Thornbill
- Ash-breasted Tit-tyrant
- Purple back Thornbill
- Olivaceous Thornbill
- Puna Tapaculo
- Black Siskin
- White wing Cinclodes and others

After a full birding day, we set up to Ipal lodge, where wait for you a n accommodations and dinner.

After dinner, you will go to look for some owls near the lodge, like Tropical screech owl, Buff-fronted

owl and others.
Duration: 10 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight at Ipal lodge

Day 2: Ipal Lodge – Ollantaytambo - Machupicchu

Stop At: Huayopata Rodeo, 28B, 08700, Peru
You will wake up early in the morning to prepare our birding equipment and leave to explore

surround the lodge to observe the local birds feeding around the lodge and farming areas. There

are identified more than 60 species of birds which make a very special area to spotting birds, like:
- Green and White Hummingbird (endemic)
- Red-crested Finch
- Swallow-tailed Hummingbird
- Blue-tailed Emerald
- Bronzy Inca
- White-lined Tanager
- Silvery Tanager
- Blue Dacnis
- Speckled Chachalaca
- Plumbeous Kite
- Barred Antshrike
- Bananaquit
- Palm Tanager
- Blue-black Grassquit, and others.

Finishing our morning birding we will be back to our lodge to have breakfast. After that we aboard

the van to drive in direction to Carrizales route stopping in the Bamboo, cloud and polylepis forests,

to spot some endemic birds and others, like:

Endemic Birds
- Inca wren
- Marcapata spinetail
- Unstreaked tit-tyrant
- Parodi's Hemispingus
- Vilcabamba tapaculo

Other Birds:
- Tit-like Dacnis
- Golden-collared Tanager
- Capped Conebill
- White-browed Conebill
- Masked flowerpiercer
- Ondulated Antpitta
- Red and White Antpitta
- Diademed Tapaculo
- Azara’s spinetail
- Crimson-mantled Woodpiecker
- Masked Trogon
- Sword-billed Hummingbird
- Sapphire-vented Puffleg
- Streaked Tuftedcheek and others.

After our birding day, you will go back to Cusco. In case you take an optional tour to Machupicchu, we

get you to the train station in Ollantaytambo.
Duration: 10 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
No accommodation included on this day.