Lima Birding Tour
Lima Layover Birding Tours
A long connection in Lima is a birding opportunity. We pick you up at the airport and get you back in time for your flight.
Available now · Lima Layover Birding · 3–8 hours
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Lima Layover Birding
Lima's Jorge Chávez airport is one of the great birding secrets of international travel: some of the best wetland and coastal birding in Peru sits just minutes from the terminal. If you have a long layover — or an overnight stopover between the Amazon, Cusco and home — we'll turn that dead time into a morning or afternoon of birds.
We collect you directly from the airport (or your airport hotel), tailor the length to your connection — anything from a three-hour dash to a full day — and have you back at the terminal with comfortable margin before your flight. The Ventanilla wetlands are barely 20 minutes away; Pantanos de Villa, La Punta and the Callao coast add penguins, Inca Terns, flamingos, herons and shorebirds. A short outing regularly produces 40 species; a full layover day can top 80.
Tell us your flight times and we'll build the tour around them. Store your bags in the vehicle, keep your binoculars handy, and let a dead layover become the first — or last — great birding of your Peru trip.
What You'll Target
Target species
Species shown in red are Peruvian endemics.
- Humboldt Penguin
- Inca Tern
- Peruvian Pelican
- Peruvian Booby
- Chilean Flamingo
- Many-colored Rush-Tyrant
- Great Grebe
- Peruvian Thick-knee
- Black Skimmer
- Surf Cinclodes
- Blackish Oystercatcher
- Burrowing Owl
Featured on this tour
The sites we visit
Your layover is built from these coastal and wetland tours, tailored to your flight times.
Ready when you land
Turn your Lima layover into a birding trip
Send us your flight times and we'll design a stopover tour that gets you back to the airport with margin to spare.