FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Birds of Ecuador

[Tanager5556@xxxxxxx]

My wife and I recently returned from participating in a mission trip to  
Ecuador ( Feb24-March 6).  As Ecuador is the bird Capital of the world we  had 
to 
take a couple of days for birding in the Mindo region of Ecuador. We  hired a 
local bird guide for two mornings.  It was well worth the 25-30  dollars we 
paid for each mornings birding.   With the two days of  birding plus a few ( 
very few) birds we identified on our own we had 91  species.  There were also 
several that went unidentified.  Our list is  barely scratching the surface of 
the 1500 or so birds in Ecuador.  I must  say it is going to take a while to 
get 
satisfaction from our local birds  again.  Anyway here is the list.  It is 
well worth the trip and  expense to bird Ecuador.  I think we stayed gone too 
long as their were  Turkey Vultures sitting in our back yard the morning after 
we got home.   Great Birding!!
 
J. Marty Paige
Cleveland, TN
Bradley County
 
 
 
1. Turkey Vulture   
2. Black Vulture
3. Swallow  â??Tailed Kite
4. Double-Toothed Kite
5. Gray-Headed Kite
6. Barred  Hawk
7. Roadside Hawk
8. Ruddy Pigeon
9. Eared Dove
10. Red-Billed  Parrot
11. Bronze-Winged Parrot
12. Squirrel Cuckoo
13. Smooth-billed  Ani
14. Black-And-White Owl
15. Common Potoo
16. White-Collared  Swift
17. Purple-Bibbed Whitetip
18. Booted Racket-tail
19.  Purple-Throated Woodstar
20. Brown Violetear
21. Fawn-Breasted  Brilliant
22. Empress Brilliant
23. Rufous-Tailed Hummingbird
24.  Andean Emerald
25. Brown Inca
26. Black-Tailed Trainbearer
27.  Violet-Tailed Sylph
28. Velvet-Purple Coronet
29. Masked Trogon
30.  Golden-Headed Quetzal
31. Toucan Barbet
32. Crimson-Rumped Toucanet
33.  Pale-Mandibled Aracari
34. Choco Toucan
35. Golden-Olive Woodpecker
36.  Smokey-Brown Woodpecker
37. Spotted Woodcreeper
38. Montane  Woodcreeper
39. Scaley-Throated Foliage-Gleaner
40. Buff-Fronted  Foliage-Gleaner
41. Pacific Hornero
42. Striped Treehunter
43. Yellow  Tyrannulet
44. Slatey-Capped Flycatcher
45. Scale-Crested  Pygmy-Tyrant
46. Torrent Tyrannulet
47. Ornate Flycatcher
48. Western  Wood-Pewee
49. Smoke-Colored Pewee
50. Tropical Kingbird
51.  Golden-Crowned Flycatcher
52. Rusty-Margined Flycatcher
53. White-Winged  Becard
54. Masked Tityra
55. Black-Crowned Tityra
56. Scaled  Fruiteater
57. Bay Wren
58. House Wren
59. Brown-Capped Vireo
60.  White-Capped Dipper
61. Great Thrush
62. Ecuadorian Thrush
63. Tropical  Parula
64. Blackburnian Warbler
65. Slate-Throated Whitestart
66.  Three-Striped Warbler
67. Bananaquit
68. Orange-Crowned Euphonia
69.  Thick-Billed Euphonia
70. Swallow Tanager
71. Bay-Headed Tanager
72.  Golden Tanager
73. Golden-Naped Tanager
74. Beryl-Spangled Tanager
75.  Black-Capped Tanager
76. White-Winged Tanager
77. Blue-Gray Tanager
78.  Palm Tanager
79. Lemon-Rumped Tanager
80. Summer Tanager
81. Dusky  Bush-Tanager
82. Buff-Throated Saltator
83. Black-Winged Saltator
84.  Southern Yellow-Grosbeak
85. Blue-Black Grassquit
86. Variable  Seedeater
87. Yellow-Bellied Seedeater
88. Yellow-Faced Grassquit
89.  Tricolored Brush-Finch
90. Rufous-Collared Sparrow
91. Shiny-Cowbird
 
 
 
 
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