Do you want bird diversity? This is your place.

A little nerdy information for you based on the Audubon Society Christmas Bird Count.

Number of bird species in all of Ecuador: 1,634

Possible number of bird species in count circle: 631

Max birds counted in CBC: 531

Number of species of Tanagers recorded in the history of our count circle: 73

Observation platform and bird feeders

If you’re looking for some sunny, warm, tropical place with beaches we want you to rethink. Everyone does beaches we have something different. This place is GREEN, and that’s because it’s wet. But that’s okay! We built you this nice place to chill out and watch birds under a cozy roof. All of the shots of birds below were taken from this platform.

Above: Barred Becard. Right: Green Jay locally know as the Monja (Nun) Images by Andy Wilkes

Chestnut breasted Coroneet (AKA El Kinde Bravo: the angry hummingbird) Image by Andy Wilkes

Lifer! Green Backed Hillstar. Guess who took this image? Yep! Andy Wilkes

The wee lil gal. Gorgina. Gorgeted Woodstar Female. Thanks Andy for the photos!

Okay, so it stopped raining, now what? Time to hit the trails, around our cabins we have several options ranging from easy to difficult. We work together with our friend Fernando Aldaz who runs Chontas Birdwatching Spot which is the trail pictured here across the road from our lodge. If you want to take this loop we suggest a guide, let us know you want to go and we’ll help you out.

Map of birding trails.

BTW, this thing is not to scale. We’re birders not mapmakers.

Hours at platform CHECK, trails by lodge CHECK, Chontas Birdwatching Spot CHECK, now what? There just so happens to be a cool group of people who are trying to get birding to take off (see what I did there?) in the Quijos Valley, and they’ve made this map of great spots to check out. We’re happy to help you arrange visits to any of the places mentioned on this map. Use that magical tool Ebird to find out what each place hace to offer. Give a follow on the socials if you want to know what the group is getting up to or support our work! Birdwatchers Valle del Quijos .