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 =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to sign your messages with first and last name, city (town) and state abbreviation. ----------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- To post to this mailing list, simply send email to: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send email to: tn-bird-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * TN-Bird Net is owned by the Tennessee Ornithological Society Neither the society(TOS) nor its moderator(s) endorse the views or opinions expressed by the members of this discussion group. Moderator: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ========================================================