Abundant Wildlife!

The Manzanillo Eco Lodge sits inside the boundaries of the Gondoca Wildlife Preserve giving all of our guest direct daily encounters from an unlimited supply of wildlife.

Many of our tours will take you off site for activities but while a guest of the lodge you will be in direct contact with the preserves wildlife.  You will awaken each morning to the sound of Howler Monkeys calling in their group.  You will be visited by hundreds of different bird species daily.  Sloths are always near by and are visible from the many paths around the lodge.  Marvel at the enormous amount of large colorful butterflies bouncing their way through the jungle.

Being a lodge guest you will receive a bracelet that allows you access to the lodge and the Gondoca Wildlife Preserve at all times of day.  The preserve closes at 4:00PM each day and does not reopen again till 8:00 AM giving all of our guests an intimate private setting in which to experience the jungle and its residents.

Birders Paradise

The Manzanillo Eco Lodge is truly a birders paradise giving you direct access to over 360 different birds species directly from our balconies.  You can expect to see:
Slaty-tailed Trogon   * Gartered Trogon   * American Pygmy Kingfisher   * Green Kingfisher  
Collared Aracari   * Keel-billed Toucan   * Black-cheeked Woodpecker   * Lineated Woodpecker * Chestnut-colored Woodpecker    * Bat Falcon    * Peregrine Falcon      * Black Vulture    * Turkey Vulture    * Osprey * Roadside Hawk    * Blue-headed Parrot   * Crimson-fronted Parakeet   * Black-crowned Antshrike   * Northern Barred-Woodcreeper   * Cocoa Woodcreeper    * Streak-headed Woodcreeper  * Plain Xenops * White-collared Manakin   - Cinnamon Becard   * Common Tody-Flycatcher   * Eastern Wood-Pewee   * Great Kiskadee   * Boat-billed Flycatcher    * Social Flycatcher   * Gray-capped Flycatcher  *  Tropical Kingbird   * Eastern Kingbird       * Red-eyed Vireo   * Barn Swallow     * House Wren   * Stripe-breasted Wren * Bay Wren     * Clay-colored Thrush  * Montezuma Oropendola   * Scarlet-rumped Cacique    * Black-cowled Oriole    * Great-tailed Grackle    * Black-and-white Warbler    * Gray-crowned Yellowthroat    * Red-throated Ant-Tanager    * Tawny-crested Tanager    * White-lined Tanager    * Scarlet-rumped Tanager   * Blue-gray Tanager   * Palm Tanager   * Golden-hooded Tanager  * Blue-black Grassquit    * Thick-billed Seed-Finch   * Variable Seedeater   * Bananaquit    * Buff-throated Saltator   * Black-headed Saltator   * Gray-headed Chachalaca   *Crested Guan   * Black-eared Wood-Quail   * Pale-vented Pigeon   * Short-billed Pigeon    * Groove-billed Ani   * Squirrel Cuckoo   * White-necked Jacobin    * Green Hermit   * Stripe-throated Hermit   * Rufous-tailed Hummingbird  * Russet-naped/Gray-cowled Wood-Rail * White-throated Crake   * Semipalmated Plover  * Sanderling  * Spotted Sandpiper   * Willet    * Brown Pelican   * Green Ibis  
and more.........

at or on the lodge property or the preserve grounds we occupy.
Previous clients have spent entire days at the lodge venturing only a few meters away to capture some of their most prized bird experiences and photographs.  We can arrange breakfast, lunch, happy hour and dinner completely around your day spent birding without ever leaving eye sight of the lodge!