Exotic Species : Ecuador Bird Watching

Ecuador bird watching is a sought out experience among the bird watching world. Ecuador is packed with different species of birds, and in fact has more species of birds per square mile than any other country in Latin America. It is a great place to go on a bird watching tour in Ecuador so that a bus or other comfortable vehicle takes the passengers to the best bird watching spots for different species of birds so that they can get out and walk a short distance to begin their bird watching experience.

For those who like to see even rarer species of birds, there are also excursions that take passengers to more remote locations, drop them off, and allow the guides to take them hiking into the wilderness. Sometimes these excursions for bird watching in Ecuador are just day trips but others are overnight trips that require the bird watchers to carry their equipment into the wilderness and camp overnight, sometimes for several days, depending on the tour. The tours are usually led by a guide who is an expert in bird watching in Ecuador, as well as a driver who is usually a mechanic so that any issues can be directly dealt with on the trip without disturbing the tour.

Types of Birds

There are eighteen percent of all bird species in the world that are found in Ecuador for bird watching in their natural environment. The bird population is dense, allowing individuals to see more birds in one trip than in other places in Latin America. One of the most popular species of birds to bird watch in Ecuador is the many species of hummingbirds that are there. In fact, there are over one hundred species of hummingbirds that can be bird watched in Ecuador which is more than anywhere else in the world.

Another popular bird for bird watching in Ecuador is the Andean condor, which is a bird species that was once in danger of extinction. The Andean condor was once hunted and also their environment was destroyed which was the cause of the population issue for the species. The Harpy eagle is another species of bird that is popular in bird watching tours in Ecuador. It is the largest of the raptor species that is found in all of South America. It is another species of bird that is endangered but found in its natural habitat in Ecuador.