Where can you see the Great Thrush?
Some of the best places to see the Great Thrush in the wild include Llanganates National Park (Ecuador), Sumaco Napo-Galeras National Park (Ecuador) and Huascarán National Park (Peru) — among 24 wildlife hotspots across Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. Every hotspot below shows real sighting data and the best seasons to visit.
Antisana National Park
Quijos, Ecuador
+432 birds+21 mammals
Where the eastern Andean slopes descend into the Amazon basin, Antisana National Park sprawls across roughly 2,500 square kilometers of some of South America's most dramatic…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKCajas National Park
Cuenca, Ecuador
+190 birds+7 mammals
High in the Andes above Cuenca, where elevation ranges from 3,100 to 4,200 metres, the páramo landscape dominates—a windswept realm of cushion plants, alpine grasses, and…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKCotopaxi National Park
Mulaló, Ecuador
+211 birds+6 mammals
High in Ecuador's volcanic corridor, where the páramo transitions into cloud forest along the slopes of Cotopaxi volcano, the national park unfolds across nearly 500 square…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKEl Tamá National Park
Toledo, Colombia
+435 birds
Where the Andes descend toward the Caribbean coastal lowlands of northern Colombia, El Tamá National Park sprawls across nearly 3,800 square kilometres of montane forest, cloud…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKGuácharos Cave National Natural Park
Acevedo, Colombia
+359 birds
High in the Andean foothills of southern Huila, where mist-laden slopes rise above 1,600 metres, lies a landscape carved by underground rivers and crowned by karst…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKHuascarán National Park
Independencia, Peru
+201 birds+5 mammals
Where granite peaks pierce the Andean sky above 6,000 metres, Huascarán National Park sprawls across more than 11,500 square kilometres of Peru's Cordillera Blanca, a landscape…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKLlanganates National Park
Tena, Ecuador
+239 birds+8 mammals
Where the eastern slopes of the Andes plunge toward the Amazon basin, Llanganates National Park sprawls across nearly 3,500 square kilometers of montane wilderness, its terrain…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKManu National Park
Manu, Peru
+892 birds+26 mammals
Across the eastern slopes of the Peruvian Andes, tropical rainforest descends into the Amazon basin with a complexity that few terrestrial ecosystems match. Manu National Park…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKNatural Chingaza National Park
Junín, Colombia
+285 birds+6 mammals
Where the Andes rise above three thousand metres in the Cundinamarca region, high-altitude grasslands and cloud forests converge in a landscape shaped by both geology and…
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