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Maquipucuna Cloud Forest Reserve

At 1000 to 2800 MASL (3280 to 9180 ft) is a medium to high altitude private reserve located north west of Nanegalito which is on the road from Quito to Mindo. It has 6000 hectares (14820 acres) of primary and secondary recovering cloud forest, 80% of this forest is undisturbed, and it is surrounded by an additional 14,000 hectares of protected forest. It has been protected by the Maquipucuna Foundation and the University of Georgia since 1988. This reserve has a very comfortable small Ecolodge with a capacity for 30 people with private and shared rooms built with wood and bamboo.

We will visit this reserve and explore the multiple trails where the biodiversity will surprise us with beautiful birds and sometimes the Spectacle Bear. This threatened bear is becoming a common sighting and feeds on the lush vegetation that provides fruit. If the weather heats up, there are the refreshing waters of the Umachaca River to relax and soothe our feet and eyes.

For more information visit : www.maqui.org/

Click here for bird list: Bird List Mauipucuna Reserve

BIRDS Of Maquipucuna

Striated Heron	Turkey Vulture	Barred Hawk	Crested Guan

Spotted Sandpiper	Plumbeous Pigeon	Squirrel-Cuckoo	Smooth-billed Ani

Common Potoo	White-collared Swift	White-whiskered Hermit	Purple-throated Woodstar

Green-crowned Woodnymph	Green-crowned Brilliant	White-necked-Jacobin	Collared Trogon

Rufous Motmot	Red-headed Barbet	Red-headed Barbet Female	White-whiskered Puffbird

Lanceolated Monklet	Crimson-rumped Toucanet	Pale-mandibled Aracari	Golden-olive Woodpecker

Montane Woodcreeper	Spotted-Woodcreeper	Scaly-throated Foliage Glener	Inmaculate Antbird

Black-headed Antthrush	Red-faced Spinetail	Torrent-Tyrannulet	Ornate-Flycatcher

Common Tody-flycatcher	Wester-wood Pewee	Black-Phoebe	Rusty-margined-Flycatcher

Golden-crowned Flycatcher	Tropical Kingbird	One-colored-Becard	White-winged Becard

Streaked Flycatcher	Red-eye Vireo	Southern Rough-winged Swallow	House Wren

White-capped Dipper	Ocre-bellied Tanager	Tropical Parula	Slate-throated Whitestart

Three-striped Warbler	Lemon-rumped Tanager	Blue and Gray Tanager	Fawn-breated tanager

Golden Tanager	Silver-throated Tanager	Swallow Tanager	Bay-headed Tanager

Buff-throated Saltator	Black-winged Saltator	Yellow-bellied Seedeater	Varialble seedeater

Thick-billed Euphonia