Guyana is an exciting, less traveled birding destination featuring over 70 Guianan Shield endemics and about 100 other species found almost exclusively in northeastern South America. Our Guyana birding tour is carefully designed to see a majority of the speciality birds found within the readily accessible areas of the country during 8 days of birding. The tour features the Georgetown area, Iwokrama Forest Reserve, the Rupununi Savanna, and Karanambu Ranch. The best time to take this tour is October-April. Accommodations are generally good except quite rustic at Surama.

The tour begins with a focus on coastal specialties at Hope Beach and near Mahaicony and Abary Rivers where we'll get our first taste of Guiana endemics along with some coastal specialties. We'll spend our first afternoon outside town birding along the Demerara River and later at the Garden of Eden in Georgetown. Early next morning we'll visit the Georgetown Botanical Gardens where we'll be looking for target birds such as Blood-colored Woodpecker before taking a late morning flight across the vast and largely unspoiled rainforest of the northern Amazon Basin to Lethem. Following our arrival there, we'll drive the 5-6 hours to Iwokrama Forest Reserve. We'll spend most of 3 days there birding this reserve. Birding will be along several trails and along the main dirt road through the reserve as well as in the southern sector at Atta Rainforest Lodge, where a canopy walkway offers special access to canopy birds. We'll be up very early during our last morning there to visit a Guianan Cock-of-the-Rock lek before continuing on to Surama Lodge, where accommodations are very basic but birding in the forest and during a short boat trip on the Burro-Burro River offers up numerous Guianan Shield endemics. From Surama we drive south through the Rupununi Savanna to Karanambu Ranch, where several endemics of open savanna await. After spending two days birding there, we drive south to Lethem to catch an afternoon flight back to Georgetown, where we'll spend a last night before catching our flights home.

 

 

 

 

 

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BIRDING LOCALES
FOR THIS TOUR

• Abary River
• Atta Rainforest
• Georgetown
• Hope Beach
• Iwokrama Reserve
• Karanambu Ranch
• Mahaicony River
• Rupununi Savanna
• Surama Village