News & Sightings

During the nights of the 21st and the 22nd of December 2012, Alejandro Arteaga and Lucas Bustamante from Tropical Herping (www.tropicalherping.com) visited our lodge to document, in their particularly amazing way, the herpetofauna present in our property. They spent two nights searching for frogs and reptiles, walking...

Birds may be the focus at the Tandayapa Bird Lodge, but they have a close relationship with another group of animals—moths.  Moths are a major food source for birds, and you will also see many different species of moths while at Tandayapa. Ed Williams worked at Tandayapa volunteering for a month in 2012 and he created...

Brett Taylor, a volunteer guide in Tandayapa earlier this year, has written up a list of the birds, reptiles, amphibians, and mammals he saw during his stay. The herp section has some great photos and is very useful! It is available to download in the trip reports section.

The hummingbirds over the last few days have been amazing with twenty species coming to the feeders throughout the day.

The Tandayapa Bird Lodge website is getting a facelift! While this site is still under development, you might have stumbled upon it. It will soon replace our old website at www.tandayapa.com. The beautiful new look with full-page photos is fitting for a lodge that has earned a reputation as one the top lodges in the Andes...