Jatun Sacha - Private Bird watching Tours

Jatun Sacha Bird Watching

This is a great place for birdwatching the Amazon without spending all of your budget and only at 5 hours drive from Quito. The Jatun Sacha Foundation has been protecting 2,500 hectares of Amazonian forest since 1986. The forest is mostly primary but there are also secondary and farmland areas. The lodging is very basic but there are also other options for lodging nearby on the town of Misahualli.

We have decided to offer tours to this foundation due to their proven track in conservation and also because of the great birds that we found on our scouting trip. If you are birding by yourself then you must hire Milton Orozco cell: 081326416 who works at Jatun Sacha and knows where to find all the good birds.

For those with good climbing abilities there is a 30 meter observation tower that provides amazing views of the canopy and, on a clear day, the Eastern Andes Mountains seen from the Amazon

Jatun Sacha Birdlist: Birdlist Jatun Sacha.pdf

BIRDS of Jatun Sacha

6:07 am view towards the east from the observation tower

Striated Heron	Least Grebe	Greater Yellow-headed Vulture	Swallow-tailed Kite

Double Toothed Kite	Slender-billed Kite	Roadside Hawk	Black Caracara

Yellow-headed Caracara	Bat Falcon	Purple Gallinule	Ruddy Ground Dove

Black-headed Parrot	Blue headed Parrot	Dusky-headed Parakeet	White-eyed Parakeet

Smooth-billed Ani	Hoatzin	Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl	Chestnut-collared Swift

White-collared Swift	Gray Rumped Swift ??	White-tailed Trogon	White-eared Jacamar

Scarlet-crowned Barbet	Guilded Barbet	White-necked Puffbird	Lettered Aracari

Channel-billed Toucan	White-throated Toucan	Lineated Woodpecker	Yellow-tufted Woodpecker

Point-tailed Palmcreeper Berlepschia rikeri	Warbling Antbird	Olive-sided Flycatcher	Estern Wood-Pewee

Pyratic Flycatcher	Boat-billed Flycatcher	Lesser Kiskadee	Pyratic/Varigated Flycatcher ?

White-winged Becard	Black-tailed Tityra	Swallow-winged Puffbird	White-browed Purpletuft

Purple-throated Fruitcrow	Bare-necked Fruitcrow	Golden-headed Manakin	Blue-crowned Manakin

Wire-tailed Manakin	Blue-backed Manakin	Western Striped Manakin	Dwarf Tyrant-Manakin

Southern Rough-winged Swallow	White-thighed Swallow	Black-capped Donacobius	Blackpoll Warbler

Blue Dacnis	Thick-billed Euphonia	White-lored Euphonia	White-vented euphonia

Swallow Tanager	Opal-crowned Tanager	Masked-crimson Tanager	Scarlet Tanager

Silver-beaked Tanager	Yellow-backed Tanager	Blue-black Grosbeak	Black-and-white Seedeater

Lesser Seed-Finch	Yellow-rumped Cacique	Crested Oropendola	Russet-backed Oropendola

Sangay Puffing	Chimborazo		Antisana

6:15 am view towards the west from the observation tower