Birdwatching & Wildlife Tours in Uruguay

Guyrapyta Birdwatching Uruguay offers unique birding, photo safari and Uruguay wildlife tours on Pampa’s landscapes. Guyrapyta Birdwatching Uruguay designs birding watching tour itineraries throughout the country for you to enjoy the vast bird biodiversity, beautiful landscapes and the intensity of the gaucho culture.

Uruguay is a country consisting of vast lush Pampas grasslands, crisscrossed by rivers, streams, lagoons and wetlands all hidden deep in ravines that house thick native forests.

It is impossible to go birding in Uruguay without getting in touch with the traditional gaucho culture associated to this unique the landscape, the extensive stock breeding and freedom that greets you. All of the lodgings, situated in pristine corners of the country, are family ranches whose main income derives from sustainable stock breeding and ecotourism which are eco-friendly taking into consideration the environment and the native flora and fauna.

Uruguay’s small size (176,000 km2) is a stark contrast with its bird diversity. There are 485 distinct bird species from 73 different families, of which 67% are permanent resident species. The figure takes on another dimension when compared to other territories in the region: the Uruguayan bird life constitutes 42% of Argentina and 26% of Brazil’s, in an area that accounts for 6% and 2% of the territory of these countries.

The bird watching tours offered by Guyrapyta Birdwatching Uruguay allow the possibility to observe typical Pampa species and other unique Uruguay wildlife, as well as species associated to aquatic and coastal milieus and Uruguay wildlife species of subtropical distribution thanks to the connection of its intricate river basin with eco-regions such as the Atlantic Forest and El Chaco. Uruguay tours will take you to species endemic to La Pampa, which in some cases have sparse populations with varying degrees of endangerment.

Infinite landscapes travelled by a gaucho on horseback are ever-present in these unique birding and Uruguay wildlife tour itineraries.