Read the blog article 'Getting to Know our Guides - Eduardo Ormaeche'
Senior Tour Leader and South American Office Manager
Eduardo Ormaeche has worked continuously for Birding Ecotours since 2004. He started guiding tours in his native country of Peru and from there spread out into many South and Central American countries, birding, guiding, and co-guiding tours in Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, Guyana, Panama, Costa Rica, Cuba, Jamaica, Guatemala and the USA. Eduardo is the head of Birding Ecotours’ Peru office and coordinates most of our Neotropical trips. He enjoys traveling and showing birds to his clients. Eduardo’s logistics skills will provide you with the best facilities available in order to allow you the most enjoyable birding holiday.
Many years ago Eduardo abandoned promising studies in psychology to become a licensed tour guide and get a degree in business management, something he would never regret. He is a serious birder with a world list of 2600 species seen to date. He works very hard to find as many birds as possible on every trip, targeting endemics and range-restricted species for the most hard-core clients. He is also extremely enthusiastic and knowledgeable about other wildlife (he loves mammals) and will always give you the chance for a night walk, looking for elusive animals and for as many members as possible of his favorite bird family, the owls.
Eduardo’s other interests include history, art, gastronomy, anthropology, hiking, and movies, and he is a declared addict to tea and chocolate. When he is not guiding he lives in Lima with his family, developing new routes for the company. Eduardo’s golden dream is to see the Great Grey Owl; his bogey bird is still the Puna Tinamou. Some of the more memorable moments of his career include a massive mixed flock with 60+ species in the fruiting trees of Wildsumaco Bird Lodge in Ecuador, the first time he spotted the Long-whiskered Owlet in the Abra Patricia Mountains in Peru, an adult Ornate Hawk-Eagle a few meters above his head watching him for over ten minutes in the forest of Tumbes in Peru, where the species had not been reported in over 100 years, and seeing his lifer Snowy Owl in Ohio in May 2017. White-plumed Antbird, Ocellated Tapaculo, Diademed Plover, Long-whiskered Owlet, Chucao Tapaculo, and Marvellous Spatuletail are among his favorite birds.
Eduardo’s favorite guiding destinations are Northern Peru, Northern Ecuador, Colombia with Santa Marta, the Pantanal and Cristalino Lodge in Brazil, Panama, and the Caribbean. A very friendly, patient, enthusiastic, and knowledgeable guide indeed!
