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Why Birding Peru with Kolibri Expeditions?

MORE BIRDS!
An ecotourism experience that fits your time constraints, budget, skills and fitness level. DON’T PAY MORE TO SEE LESS.

Don't pay more to see less. Apart from bird watching holidays in Peru we also organize bird photography and eco-tourism trips to Peru, South America and Worldwide.

Peru bird watching tours can be customized to fit all comfort levels. Our expert guides take into account your birding experience and help you reach a Higher Skill Level.

Fixed departures in our calendar have lower prices. For some tours such as the Manu Road or North Peru there is tiered pricing depending on level of comfort in lodging and the services you choose. This way you can choose a price that fits your budget.

Use the category menu or the calendar to find a trip that suits your needs in content and time frame. Check tour length to find a trip of preferred length of time. For those with very limited time we recommend look at our 5 day tours covering the major birding areas of Peru.

Recently we have started offering trips outside of Peru. Check our short Winter Japan tour for example.

Our clients choose us because:

  • Of our Environment, Conservation and Community commitments.
  • Of our Excellent in the field meal services, which allows more birding time than sit-down meals.
  • We provide free, completely safe treated drinking water and this way avoid plastic disposable bottles. Doing our part to combat plastic pollution in South America where there is lack of recycling and garbage treatment. Furthermore bottled water is a waste of natural resources and energy. Water is filtered and treated with micro pore systems.
  • We involve and train local guides.
  • We have pioneered new birding areas some that have become part of the regular birding circuit today.
  • We have the longest track record of organizing Pelagic Trips in Peru.
  • Our drivers and guides are legendary.
  • We provide birding for everyone; at every level.
  • We provide deluxe trips as well as budget trips. Even self-guided trips, if you want only some of the logistics taken care of. And we provide for every level of comfort and pace. Your requirements are our guideline. We can pair you up with others who are interested in the same type of trip.
  • We love Hard Core Birding - with Big Days, Specific Target species and attempts to reach 500-1000 species.
  • We love Relaxed Birding where nature, birding and culture often are combined.
  • We love Bird Photography trips, helping you to get the best shots.
  • Also other Fauna, rare plant and orchid trips.

    • MORE BIRDS!
    An ecotourism experience that fits your time constraints, budget, skills and fitness level. DON’T PAY MORE TO SEE LESS.

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 Upcoming Trips 2021

Birding Peru Anytime
Every week Mo-Fri throughout the year Kolibri attempts to run three different 5 day tours. They are our most popular programs and perfect for those with little time. You can of course combine them into one longer trip. They are:
Photography friendly Machu Picchu and Cusco endemics - with extreme comfort.
Manu road. Best season and drier mid-April to mid-December - although birding can be very good also in the rainy season between showers.
Northern Peru transect Tarapoto-Jaen or vice versa with Marvelous Spatuletail and Long-whiskered Owlet. Note that the male Spatuletail often lack spatulas in July-Aug.
When you book, we shall enter the dates in the calendar so other people will see that these trips are running these dates and they could book the same date for a better price for everyone.
Having said that, just booking any date yourself or with your partner at the date you prefer will not break the bank. $1000 surcharge for a single person + single supplement. $500 surcharge per person if only two people. $250/person surcharge with three people, and no surcharge with groups of 5 or more.
 
If you don't find a suitable trip, please contact us at kolibriexp@gmail.com
 February 2021 
Every Mon-Fri throughout the year we offer our most popular 5 day tours to Machu Picchu, Manu road and North Peru. Click and sign up!
If you don't find a suitable trip, please contact us at kolibriexp@gmail.com
 March 2021 
13 - 20 Best Birding of Yucatan (Guide(s): Gunnar Engblom)  Combine a visit to the Maya heritage of the Yucatan with the New 7 Wonder Chichen Itza as one of the highlights together with incredible birding, and delicious Mexican food. Birding highlights include Flamingos, Great Curassow, Occelated Turkey, Yucatan Jay and a number of other localized endemics. 
Take only 5 days off from work. 
21 - 28 Triunfo and Horned Guan   Once again we run our successful trip to Horned Guan, Pink-headed Warbler and Resplendent Quetzal with the famous Triunfo hike.
25 - 29 5 day Manu Road Birding and Photography   Our classic Manu road in 5 days. The fastest way to get the most important birds on Manu road and good photography at feeding stations, including a lek (display area) of Andean Cock-of-the-Rock. Can be combined with Machu Picchu and Abra Malaga before. 
Every Mon-Fri throughout the year we offer our most popular 5 day tours to Machu Picchu, Manu road and North Peru. Click and sign up!
If you don't find a suitable trip, please contact us at kolibriexp@gmail.com
 April 2021 
5 - 9 Carpish, Unchog and Junin Lake 5 days.   Our short Junin, Carpish and Unchog trip targeting Junin Grebe, Golden-backed Mountain-Tanager and many more. Can be combined with the short Satipo road that follows.
10 - 14 Satipo Road and Colibri Cloud Forest - Short 5 Day Tour   Targeting Cloud-forest Screech-Owl near la Merced and many undescribed and new species in the Satipo road area.
19 - 23 5 day Manu Road Birding and Photography   Megadiverse Manu road with hummingbird feeders and fruitfeeders for tanagers in 5 days. Most endemic and special species along the route are also covered. Andean Cock of the Rock very close for photography. 
24 - 28 Machu Picchu and Abra Malaga - Birding program   BIrding focused 5 day tour with our new program covering Abra Malaga, Machu Picchu, Laguna Huaypo, Ensifera Camp feeders and Salcantay road for Apurimac endemics. COVID-19 Replacement tour.  Manu road 5 days runs just before this tour and the two tours can be taken back to back.
Every Mon-Fri throughout the year we offer our most popular 5 day tours to Machu Picchu, Manu road and North Peru. Click and sign up!
If you don't find a suitable trip, please contact us at kolibriexp@gmail.com
 May 2021 
5 - 9 Marvelous Spatuletail, 40 hummingbirds and Long-whiskered Owlet. (Guide(s): Gunnar Engblom)  Special photography departure for Long-whiskered Owlet and Marvelous Spatuletail and many other birds. Lots of hummingbird feeders and an array of colorful tanagers. Start in Jaen and ends in Tarapoto. Flight from Lima leaves at 5.50 AM. 
10 - 19 Butterfly watching Satipo (Guide(s): Gunnar Engblom,  Juan Julca)  New Departure.   Trip postponed from April 2020. If you love butterflies and moths, and don't worry to much about comfort, then this trip is for you. The birding is also very good - especially on Satipo road. Your guides know both butterfiles, moths and birds. 
22 Cusco/Ollantaytambo birding day trip: Abra Malaga (Guide(s): Gunnar Engblom)  Start in Cusco when first flight from Lima arrives. Specific focus on hummingbirds such as Scaled Metaltail, Andean Hillstar and White-tufted Sunbeam on this pre day tour before Manu road. 
23 - 27 5 day Manu Road Birding and Photography   For The Hummingbird lover. This departure date has been commsioned by a hummingbird aficionado, so a focus on the trip will be to get as many hummingbirds as possible. Having said that, the itinerary is very varied and ample time will be set off for the other good looking birds in the itinerary. It is very photography firendly. It is open for other birders/bird photographers to join. 
If you are interested in humminbirds there will be a day in Lima on July 3 looking for hummers and other endemics on the Santa Eulalia Canyon road and a very early flight to Cusco to look for hummingbirds on the Abra Malaga road in Cusco the next day. Also on July 11, there will be a day trip to Ticlio/Marcapomacocha area.
29 Lima days: Daytrip to Ticlio and Marcopomacocha area (Guide(s): Gunnar Engblom)  Prime target this day is Diademed Sandpiper-Plover, but also White-bellied Cinclodes, and other good birds include Black-breasted Hillstar, Olivaceous Thornbill, Dark-winged Miner and Giant Coot. 
30 Lima days: Daytrip to Santa Eulalia Canyon (Guide(s): Gunnar Engblom)  Special focus on hummingbirds such as Peruvian Sheertail, Oasis Hummingbird, Bronze-tailed Comet, Giant Hummingbird and Black Metaltail.
Also Andean Condor, Great Inca-Finch, Peruvian Pygmy-Owl, Black-necked Woodpecker, Rusty-bellied Brush-Finch and many more. 
Every Mon-Fri throughout the year we offer our most popular 5 day tours to Machu Picchu, Manu road and North Peru. Click and sign up!
If you don't find a suitable trip, please contact us at kolibriexp@gmail.com
 June 2021 
5 - 14 North Peru getaway (10 days) featuring White-winged Guan and Marvelous Spatuletail (Guide(s): Juan Julca)  Two options. Either this 10 day trip or the 5 day trip below, depending on how much time you have got. The 5 day trip meets up with the 10 day trip in Jaen. 
Either option is confirmed. 
15 - 18 Scarlet-banded Barbet extension (Guide(s): Gunnar Engblom,  Juan Julca)  Peru's newest birding hotspot with localized and recently described Scarlet-banded Barbet and Cordillera Azul Antbird. Both endemics of course.  Join us on the 5 day Marvelous Spatuletail and Long-whiskered Owlet tour. 
19 - 23 Marvelous Spatuletail, 40 hummingbirds and Long-whiskered Owlet. (Guide(s): Gunnar Engblom,  Juan Julca)  Long-whiskered Owlet and Marvelous Spatuletail are the main targets of this short 5 day trip, that can easily be combined with our 5 day Scarlet-banded Barbet tour.
Every Mon-Fri throughout the year we offer our most popular 5 day tours to Machu Picchu, Manu road and North Peru. Click and sign up!
If you don't find a suitable trip, please contact us at kolibriexp@gmail.com
 July 2021 
1 - 5 Birding Tumbes and North Peru pelagic (Guide(s): Gunnar Engblom,  Juan Jose Chalco)  One of Peru's best kept secrets. Lush semi-deciduous forest with many regional endemic birds, shared with Ecuador, but the habitat in Ecuador is only fragments compared to this. 
3 Lima days: Daytrip to Santa Eulalia Canyon (Guide(s): Gunnar Engblom)  Search for all the hummingbirds and endemics in the Santa Eulalia Canyon during this day trip. 
21 - 25 Marvelous Spatuletail, 40 hummingbirds and Long-whiskered Owlet. (Guide(s): Juan Julca)  If 10 days in North Peru is too much, this is a compromise. Start in Jaen either in the afternoon of the 20th, or morning the 21st of July, and end in Tarapoto on the 25th afternoon-evening to fly to Lima, or the next day continuing birding at the ACONABIKH reserve and then flight in the afternoon to Iquitos for our ExplorNapo and white Sand forest program, or fly back to Lima.
25 - Aug 11 Complete Central Peru (Guide(s): Juan Julca)  The complete Central Peru program covers all the endemics en route and several undescribed species including Golden-backed Mountain Tanager, Diademed Sandpiper-Plover and White-cheeked Cotinga. 
Every Mon-Fri throughout the year we offer our most popular 5 day tours to Machu Picchu, Manu road and North Peru. Click and sign up!
If you don't find a suitable trip, please contact us at kolibriexp@gmail.com
 August 2021 
12 - 17 5 days Birding Canopy walkway, river islands and white sand forest. (Guide(s): Gunnar Engblom)  This departure will focus on the endemics and special birds. There shall be no overnight at Cumazeba and more time spent in Allpahuayo-Mishana reserve, but perhaps a half day tour to include Black-tailed Antbird and Zimmer's Woodcreeper. 
On August 18-20 there is a Muyuna Lodge extension. Price for this part TBA. 
12 - 17 5 days Birding Canopy walkway, river islands and white sand forest. (Guide(s): Gunnar Engblom)  This departure will focus on the endemics and special birds. There shall be no overnight at Cumazeba and more time spent in Allpahuayo-Mishana reserve, but perhaps a half day tour to include Black-tailed Antbird and Zimmer's Woodcreeper. 
On August 18-20 there is a Muyuna Lodge extension. Price for this part TBA. 
21 - 30 North Peru getaway (10 days) featuring White-winged Guan and Marvelous Spatuletail (Guide(s): Juan Julca)  There is also a shorter version of this trip between Aug 21-25 starting in Jaen ending in Tarapoto. 
Every Mon-Fri throughout the year we offer our most popular 5 day tours to Machu Picchu, Manu road and North Peru. Click and sign up!
If you don't find a suitable trip, please contact us at kolibriexp@gmail.com
 September 2021 
11 - 12 Machu Picchu: Independant one day or two day trip   Bird photography program over two days. Possibly the Machu Picchu part on day one will be unguided if group size is small, but the second day is with guide searching for Bearded Mountaineer and visiting feeders at Ensifera camp. Also a visit at Laguna Huaypo as we return to Cusco in the evening. 
13 - 17 5 day Manu Road Birding and Photography   Our classic Manu road in 5 days. The fastest way to get the most important birds on Manu road and good photography at feeding stations. Can be combined with Machu Picchu and Abra Malaga afterwards. 
22 - Oct 9 FIXED DEPARTURE - Complete Manu Birding Tour 18 days (Guide(s): Gunnar Engblom)  Join us for the complete Manu tour. Now with an improved itinerary to get you a chance of all the special birds in SE Peru. Tiered pricing saves you money. 
Every Mon-Fri throughout the year we offer our most popular 5 day tours to Machu Picchu, Manu road and North Peru. Click and sign up!
If you don't find a suitable trip, please contact us at kolibriexp@gmail.com
 October 2021 
13 - 30 FIXED DEPARTURE - Complete Manu Birding Tour 18 days   Join us for the complete Manu tour. Now with an improved itinerary to get you a chance of all the special birds in SE Peru. Tiered pricing saves you money. 
13 - 17 Marvelous Spatuletail, 40 hummingbirds and Long-whiskered Owlet. (Guide(s): Juan Julca)  This departure starts in Jaen on the 13th and is run reversed to the program on the website. The other passengers in the group are adding 3 days prior to the tour to bird Cajamarca-Leimebamba-Jaen. It is also possible to do a three day pretour before the Cajamarca-Jaen pretour Oct 10-12, from Chiclayo to Cajamarca which will include Chaparri, Tinajones, Puerto Eten and El Rafan for Peruvian Plantcutter and White-winged Guan between Oct 7-19.

Also, note that one could easily add birding in Tarapoto on Oct 18. There will be connection to Cusco for those who want to do Manu road right after (Oct 19-23). Two people are booked already for Manu road.   
17 - 21 Lowland SE Peru specialties at Los Amigos Research Center (Guide(s): Gunnar Engblom)  The most impressive trail system and birding in the Peruvian Amazon. Special birds includ Black-faced Cotinga, Rufous-fronted Antthrush, Long-crested Pygmy-Tyrant and many more. Also, the cute Emperor Tamarin can be seen here, as there is a good population. Stay connected with WIFI at the lodge. 
21 - 25 Marvelous Spatuletail, 40 hummingbirds and Long-whiskered Owlet.   Long-whiskered Owlet and Marvelous Spatuletail are the main targets of this short 5 day trip, that can easily be combined with our 5 day Scarlet-banded Barbet tour.
Every Mon-Fri throughout the year we offer our most popular 5 day tours to Machu Picchu, Manu road and North Peru. Click and sign up!
If you don't find a suitable trip, please contact us at kolibriexp@gmail.com
 November 2021 
20 - Dec 5 FIXED DEPARTURE - Northern Peru Complete Standard Birding Route in 16 days. (Guide(s): Juan Julca)  Our most complete North Peru trip with Marvelous Spatuletail and all the other endemics and special birds. Check out our tiered pricing for this tour. Something affordable for you, or maybe you want more comfort and you are willing to pay for it. 
Every Mon-Fri throughout the year we offer our most popular 5 day tours to Machu Picchu, Manu road and North Peru. Click and sign up!
If you don't find a suitable trip, please contact us at kolibriexp@gmail.com
 December 2021 
4 - 5 Paracas two days with Pelagic (Guide(s): Juan Julca)  The pelagic will run south of Nazca on Dec 5. It is best to add a day after the pelagic to have enough time to get back to Lima. 
Every Mon-Fri throughout the year we offer our most popular 5 day tours to Machu Picchu, Manu road and North Peru. Click and sign up!
 Upcoming Trips 2022

Birding Peru Anytime
Every week Mo-Fri throughout the year Kolibri attempts to run three different 5 day tours. They are our most popular programs and perfect for those with little time. You can of course combine them into one longer trip. They are:
Photography friendly Machu Picchu and Cusco endemics - with extreme comfort.
Manu road. Best season and drier mid-April to mid-December - although birding can be very good also in the rainy season between showers.
Northern Peru transect Tarapoto-Jaen or vice versa with Marvelous Spatuletail and Long-whiskered Owlet. Note that the male Spatuletail often lack spatulas in July-Aug.
When you book, we shall enter the dates in the calendar so other people will see that these trips are running these dates and they could book the same date for a better price for everyone.
Having said that, just booking any date yourself or with your partner at the date you prefer will not break the bank. $1000 surcharge for a single person + single supplement. $500 surcharge per person if only two people. $250/person surcharge with three people, and no surcharge with groups of 5 or more.
 
If you don't find a suitable trip, please contact us at kolibriexp@gmail.com
 January 2022 
Every Mon-Fri throughout the year we offer our most popular 5 day tours to Machu Picchu, Manu road and North Peru. Click and sign up!
If you don't find a suitable trip, please contact us at kolibriexp@gmail.com
 February 2022 
Every Mon-Fri throughout the year we offer our most popular 5 day tours to Machu Picchu, Manu road and North Peru. Click and sign up!
If you don't find a suitable trip, please contact us at kolibriexp@gmail.com
 March 2022 
Every Mon-Fri throughout the year we offer our most popular 5 day tours to Machu Picchu, Manu road and North Peru. Click and sign up!
If you don't find a suitable trip, please contact us at kolibriexp@gmail.com
 April 2022 
Every Mon-Fri throughout the year we offer our most popular 5 day tours to Machu Picchu, Manu road and North Peru. Click and sign up!
If you don't find a suitable trip, please contact us at kolibriexp@gmail.com
 May 2022 
Every Mon-Fri throughout the year we offer our most popular 5 day tours to Machu Picchu, Manu road and North Peru. Click and sign up!
If you don't find a suitable trip, please contact us at kolibriexp@gmail.com
 June 2022 
Every Mon-Fri throughout the year we offer our most popular 5 day tours to Machu Picchu, Manu road and North Peru. Click and sign up!
If you don't find a suitable trip, please contact us at kolibriexp@gmail.com
 July 2022 
Every Mon-Fri throughout the year we offer our most popular 5 day tours to Machu Picchu, Manu road and North Peru. Click and sign up!
If you don't find a suitable trip, please contact us at kolibriexp@gmail.com
 August 2022 
Every Mon-Fri throughout the year we offer our most popular 5 day tours to Machu Picchu, Manu road and North Peru. Click and sign up!
If you don't find a suitable trip, please contact us at kolibriexp@gmail.com
 September 2022 
Every Mon-Fri throughout the year we offer our most popular 5 day tours to Machu Picchu, Manu road and North Peru. Click and sign up!
If you don't find a suitable trip, please contact us at kolibriexp@gmail.com
 October 2022 
Every Mon-Fri throughout the year we offer our most popular 5 day tours to Machu Picchu, Manu road and North Peru. Click and sign up!
If you don't find a suitable trip, please contact us at kolibriexp@gmail.com
 November 2022 
Every Mon-Fri throughout the year we offer our most popular 5 day tours to Machu Picchu, Manu road and North Peru. Click and sign up!
If you don't find a suitable trip, please contact us at kolibriexp@gmail.com
 December 2022 
Every Mon-Fri throughout the year we offer our most popular 5 day tours to Machu Picchu, Manu road and North Peru. Click and sign up!
 
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