We make it easy (and fun!) to experience birding outside our local area.

Bedford Audubon offers extended birding weekends throughout the year, as well as longer trips, both domestic and international. Whether your an experienced or novice birder, these flexible and friendly adventures are a great way to make new friends and find species you might not otherwise see.

Summer Birding

Adirondacks, NY

Winter Birding – TEXAS

Rio Grande Valley, TX

International Birding

Ecuador | Birding the Chocó-Andes Region

Tuesday, February 10 – Thursday, February 19, 2026

Bedford Audubon is once again partnering with Holbrook Travel to embark another international excursion guided by our own John Hannan. Our next stop: the Chocó-Andes region of Ecuador! An extraordinary abundance of bird life inhabits the forests of northwestern Ecuador. Amid cloud forest, rainforest, páramo, and the eastern and western slopes of the Andes Mountains, you’ll seek out as many of the country’s 1,640-plus species as possible with assistance from your expert guide on this 10-day adventure. In particular, much of the avifauna you’ll encounter is endemic to the Chocó region, while other species are more easily found here than any place else.

• Explore the Chocó ecoregion across a variety of protected areas, including Yanacocha Biological Reserve, Alambi Cloud Forest Reserve, Milpe Bird Sanctuary, Antisana Ecological Reserve, and others.
• Visit the famed Refugio Paz de las Aves, known as a haven for antpittas and Andean Cocks-of-the-rock.
• Take in Yanacocha Biological Reserve, a protected area established to safeguard the critically endangered and endemic Black-breasted Puffleg, the official emblematic bird of Quito.
• Bird the Mashpi-Amagusa Reserve for target species like the Rose-faced Parrot, Orange-breasted Fruiteater, Chocó Vireo, Moss-backed Tanager, and Indigo Flowerpiercer.

The fee is $3575 per person in double occupany (based on 10 participants); Land cost only. Does not include round-trip airfare to and from destination. Single room supplement is $425.

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