Birding trip report
John van der Woude - www.jvanderw.nl |
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Logistics |
Quito airport is a
convenient place for changing money (you get a very reasonable rate when
changing the local money back to dollars), for making international phone
calls (find the narrow stairways to the office), and for buying postcards and
stamps (there is a small post office outside). Just outside is a reasonable
hotel. |
We had a car from Budget
at the airport. We had ordered and payed the car, a Suzuki Swift, in Holland
already. The service was good. When the key broke off in the trunk door the
car was replaced the same day by an even newer one. They didn't charge us for
that. After all, I think that with ample time, many of the visited birding
areas could have been done by bus and taxi as well. |
As usual, we loaded the
car immediately with large bottles of drinking water. Güitig mineral water
tastes good. Along the road we didn't buy so much, some bread, cheese (good,
white) and some surprisingly scarce bananas. Again, we had our own cereals
and milk powder. Meals in the restaurants are nothing special - just chicken
or beef. |
We were happy that we had
taken along our rubber boots. They were rather convenient for many
circumstances. But mostly we wore our sport shoes of course. We used loads of
T-shirts, and several light trousers as well. High in the mountains, we wore
a warm sweater and a light coat. We took along our own thin sheet bags and
used them at several places. |
The road conditions were,
generally speaking, not so good, although managable by normal car, with ample
time. The most important observation in this respect was that the so-called
Loreto road is asfalted only for the upper first 35 km, and the remaining 100
km to Coca is not! In the lower Oriente, several roads are sort of surfaced
with a by-product from the oil companies. Also, note that there is a (dirt)
road now from Sushufindi to Limoncocha. |
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The Hosteria El Bijao in
Mindo is a nice but basic place, with a manager that quite understands the
needs of birders, and with good food as well. Nevertheless, we had bed bugs
there, and the palm frond roof was leaking here and there during a rainy
night. |
In Papallacta, we had a
very basic but clean room in the hotel right at the western end of the
village. On our way back, we had a cabin at the thermal pools above the
village, and they were building a sort of cheap lodge there as well. This is
a very convenient place for birders (with restaurant), also because you are
entitled to pass the locked gate to the area higher up, a very good birding
valley. |
South of Baeza, we looked
for a possibility to have a cabin high up on the Huacamayos ridge, but we
could not find somebody with the keys. Nevertheless the cabins and the
surrounding area looked promising. It is called Cabanas San Isidro, phone
446-404 in Quito beforehand, as we read at the entrance. The location is just
1 or 2 km N of Cosanga, at a sandy road (1 km) to the West. So we took the
new hotel just at the southern tip of New Baeza. The room was good, but the
service miserable and the other guests too noisy. |
Hotel Auca in Tena is
good, and a beautiful place to bird. Descending the Loreto road towards Coca,
we noted a rather clean looking basic hotel in the first real village. Loreto
itself is an ugly place, as is Coca. The hotel La Mision in Coca looks
promising, but the nights are spoiled by music from their own disco,
especially audible if you have a room with a view on the river. |
In Sushufindi we saw a
nice hotel in the centre, this may even be an alternative to Coca. In
Limoncocha there is no proper lodge (although rooms are available), but in
the near future they are developing something for ecotourists, and the area
has been declared (too late I would say) a Reserve, with high entrance fee. |
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From Lago Agrio, we had a
semi-organised tour into the Cuyabeno Reserve. By car to Cuyabeno, NE of
Tarapoa, then by private canoe paddling down the river Cuyabeno to the Laguna
Grande, camping on two sites, and return upstream back by motorized canoe,
and by bus back to L. Agrio. We found the Indian guide/leader (Galo) with the
help of Edwin Ceballos of the Inefan office situated at a back street N of
the city centre. We payed all-in $50 pp, per day. We had to identify most
birds ourselves (which we enjoy), but our guide Fermin (photo) had sharp eyes
and ears. |
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Itinerary |
Sat 26 Aug. Late arrival at Quito. |
Sun 27 Aug. Car hire at airport. Via Mitad del Mundo
monument and Tandayapa to Bellavista lodge. |
Wed 30 Aug. Afternoon on to Mindo. |
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Sun 3 Sep. Papallacta to Baeza (Cosanga also). |
Mon 4 Sep. Baeza via upper Loreto road to Tena. |
Wed 6 Sep. Tena via Loreto road to Coca. |
Fri 8 Sep. Coca to Lago Agrio via Sushufindi and
Limoncocha. |
Sat 9 Sep. Into Cuyabeno reserve. |
Mon 11 Sep. Afternoon back to L. Agrio |
Tue 12 Sep. L. Agrio to San Rafael Falls. |
Wed 13 Sep. Afternoon San Rafael Falls to Papallacta. |
Thu 14 Sep. Afternoon Papallacta to Quito. |
Fri 15 Sep. Early flight from Quito. |
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Birding sites |
Our main sources were
Where to watch birds in South America, by Nigel Wheatley (Chr. Helm), and
Birdwatching in mainland Ecuador by Tom Heijnen (available through DBTRS, PO
737, 9700 AS Groningen, The Netherlands; now incorporated in A Guide to Birdwatching
in Ecuador, Biosphere Publications). |
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The Papallacta pass is a
large area of alpine meadows and subalpine shrubs and dwarf forest (paramo
and sub-paramo). It deserves prolonged birding, it is far more than just a
pass. Isolated dwarf forest patches in the pass, along the main road, are
rewarding. The best birding did we have along the track up from the thermal
pools (see above). Ask the personnel to let you bird that track, they have to
open a gate. This is where we saw the many mountain-tanagers. |
The Papallacta-Baeza road
offers good views on the alder forest patches downhill. Especially the site
just before the first Vulcanizador after Papallacta had interesting tanager
flocks with many flowerpiercers, on both days that we came along. |
The partly forested area
around the Cabanas San Isidro, just N of Cosanga, S of Baeza, looked
promising, but we didn't have the opportunity to bird there. The quiet
Baeza-Tena road traverses the likewise partly forested Huacamayos ridge.
Somehow, we didn't see that many birds here, but the area looks promising as
well. |
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We had nice birds along
the upper Loreto road, the beginning of which is easy to find. Would time have
permitted, we might have birded the middle section as well, esp. along the
very long (some 8 km) descending part of the road before entering the more
cultivated lower part. Also did we see some interesting birds along the
lowest semi-forested stretch, i.e. the last 15 km or so before taking the
incredible ferry across the Payamino near Coca. |
From Coca, we made an
interesting trip to the other side of the wide Napo river, SE down the road
with all the pozo's (oil wells). Most pozo's are situated amidst a rather
undisturbed forest patch (apparently a zone where agriculture is prohibited).
This offered some good birding, esp. at the pozo's AU 4 and AU 6 + 39. |
The second night that we
stayed in Coca we might better have stayed in Sushufindi. The last 10 km or
so before this small and cosy oil town offered some good roadside birding, as
did the first (rather forested) 3 km or so S down the road to Limoncocha.
Limoncocha itself was not so good late in the morning, although an
interesting place to be, with a nice view on the great lake. |
The area around Lago
Agrio offered some nice roadside birding too. The last 17 km along the road
from Coca has nice forests, although we didn't really have time to bird
there. Also the road sides W of Lago Agrio were interesting, esp. around Sta.
Cecilia. There we took a side road South, ending after some km at an army
post. The semi-open area just before the army post was good birding. |
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A very rewarding and
pleasant birding area was the Cascadas de San Rafael. The mostly forested
trail from the cabanas down to the magnificent falls was worth birding on
several moments during the day. The warden told us that there is a long trail
going up on the vulcano as well. Also the trail from the W end of the
compound down to a small citrus plot was good forest birding. But just
walking along the rim of the compound produced many forest border birds
already. |
The roadside scenery
further on from San Rafael towards Baeza was rewarding, and again looked
promising for birding for at least the first 20 km or so. |
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Birds (some highlights; see species
list below for more details) |
Sickle-winged and Wattled
Guan were the more spectacular game birds, being rather range-restricted. A
group of fifteen American Swallow-tailed Kites cheered up a rather dull road
in the Oriente. We had some close encounters with the Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl,
and heard the range-restricted White-throated Screech-Owl from our balcony at
Bellavista. We saw many Sungrebes. An Andean Gull was the only gull or tern
we saw this time. |
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Golden-headed Quetzal was
rather common in the North-West. The uncommon Blue-crowned Trogon was sitting
in a tree above the loo of a camp in Cuyabeno. A Coppery-chested Jacamar at
the San Rafael Falls was one of the most important observations of the trip.
It is classified as a vulnerable species, but has been seen at this spot in
recent years. Pygmy Kingfisher was rather numerous in Cuyabeno. We saw one
with a tiny fish. |
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Cuvier's Toucan was
abundant in Cuyabeno, and we even found a dead one (see photo; was still
warm, just seized by a raptor that flew off when we arrived at the spot). |
We got two species of the
impressive woodpecker genus Celeus (Chestnut and the wish-list
Cream-colored). The beautiful Spot-breasted Woodpecker was really common in
the Oriente. To our list of large black woodpeckers we added the Powerful
Woodpecker. Spot-crowned and Olive-backed Woodcreepers belong to the West-
and East-Andean slope respectively. Also, we saw the two largest
(Dendrocolaptes) woodcreepers, the Black-banded and the Strong-billed. |
It took us twenty minutes
or so to locate the incessantly singing Azara's Spinetail; afterwards we heard
it on many sites in the North-West. Unexpectedly we spotted at just 3 m
distance, after a long chase through a bamboo bush in the Bellavista Reserve,
an Ocellated Tapaculo. As far as we know, it had not been described before
for the area (Nono-Mindo road). You can listen to its sound
that we recorded at only 3 m distance. This sound was repeated every few
seconds. |
Lined Antshrike, once
identified (male and female), did we hear afterwards at several sites. A
difficult to spot but unmistakable antbird was the White-backed Fire-eye at
the San Rafael Falls. Tawny Antpitta showed off in the high mountains, and
Slate-crowned Antpitta looked at us from a well hidden place in a bush in its
narrow altitudinal zone. The White-lored Antpitta of Tena did we identify
only back home on the tape. |
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The Black-billed
Shrike-Tyrant was one of those special high-altitude birds, sitting on a post
in the Papallacta pass. Streak-necked and Olive-striped Flycatcher form a
twin pair, we saw the first one at the West slope, and the second one at the
East slope. The closely related Ornate Flycatcher did we see as well.
Rufous-headed and Cliff Flycatcher were other outstanding flycatchers, with
precise habitat requirements. At Tena, in the Oriente, we saw three
Tody-Flycatchers - Common, Black-headed and Golden-winged, all along the same
path of some 200 m length. At several small rivers we saw the Torrent
Tyrannulet. |
Black-capped Donacobius
did we sea on all sites in the lower Oriente. Thrush-like Wren was a new
Campylorynchus wren for us. The most remarkable wren was the Southern
Nightingale Wren, with its incredible song of gradually descending separate
notes with ever increasing very long intervals. Although we were happy on
hearing the Andean Solitaire at several sites, seeing the impressive Black
Solitaire deep down in a moist slope forest is quite another thing. |
Two Neotropical montane
forest warblers were Black-crested and Russet-crowned. The Buff-rumped
Warbler flashed between the bushes on the Tena river side. Other warblers
were the not so common Olive-crowned Yellowthroat and the high Andes
Spectacled Whitestart. |
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Species list Abbreviations
of sites: TA = W of Tandayapa (along aold Nono-Mindo road), esp.
Bellavista reserve and lodge | |||||||||||||
TA | MI | PP | PB | HU | TE | UL | CO | SU | LA | CY | RF | ||
Cinereous Tinamou | TE | CY | Crypturellus cinereus | ||||||||||
Little Tinamou | TE | Crypturellus soui | |||||||||||
Undulated Tinamou | CO | CY | Crypturellus undulatus | ||||||||||
Variegated Tinamou | TE | CY | Crypturellus variegatus | ||||||||||
Speckled Chachalaca | CO | SU | CY | Ortalis guttata | |||||||||
Spix's Guan | CY | Penelope jacquacu | |||||||||||
Blue-throated Piping Guan | CY | Pipile cumanensis | |||||||||||
Wattled Guan | RF | Aburria aburri | |||||||||||
Sickle-winged Guan | TA | RF | Chamaepetes goudotii | ||||||||||
Muscovy Duck | CY | Cairina moschata | |||||||||||
Andean Teal | PP | Anas andium | |||||||||||
Rufescent Tiger Heron | CY | Tigrisoma lineatum | |||||||||||
Striated Heron | CO | LA | CY | Butorides striata | |||||||||
Western Cattle Egret | CY | Bubulcus ibis | |||||||||||
Cocoi Heron | CY | Ardea cocoi | |||||||||||
Turkey Vulture | MI | HU | TE | CO | LA | CY | Cathartes aura | ||||||
Black Vulture | HU | TE | CO | LA | Coragyps atratus | ||||||||
King Vulture | CO | Sarcoramphus papa | |||||||||||
Swallow-tailed Kite | MI | SU | CY | RF | Elanoides forficatus | ||||||||
Pearl Kite | RF | Gampsonyx swainsonii | |||||||||||
Double-toothed Kite | CY | Harpagus bidentatus | |||||||||||
Roadside Hawk | TA | MI | HU | TE | UL | CO | RF | Buteo magnirostris | |||||
White-rumped Hawk | TA | Buteo leucorrhous | |||||||||||
Short-tailed Hawk | CO | Buteo brachyurus | |||||||||||
Puna Hawk | PP | Buteo poecilochrous | |||||||||||
Black Caracara | CO | CY | Daptrius ater | ||||||||||
Laughing Falcon | CY | Herpetotheres cachinnans | |||||||||||
American Kestrel | TA | Falco sparverius | |||||||||||
Bat Falcon | CY | Falco rufigularis | |||||||||||
Sungrebe | CO | CY | Heliornis fulica | ||||||||||
Rufous-sided Crake | TE | Laterallus melanophaius | |||||||||||
Purple Gallinule | LA | Porphyrio martinica | |||||||||||
Southern Lapwing | CY | Vanellus chilensis | |||||||||||
Wattled Jacana | CO | LA | Jacana jacana | ||||||||||
Solitary Sandpiper | LA | Tringa solitaria | |||||||||||
Spotted Sandpiper | TA | TE | CY | Actitis macularius | |||||||||
Andean Gull | RF | Chroicocephalus serranus | |||||||||||
Band-tailed Pigeon | TA | PB | Patagioenas fasciata | ||||||||||
Pale-vented Pigeon | TA | Patagioenas cayennensis | |||||||||||
Plumbeous Pigeon | TA | CY | Patagioenas plumbea | ||||||||||
Ruddy Pigeon | MI | HU | CY | Patagioenas subvinacea | |||||||||
White-tipped Dove | TA | Leptotila verreauxi | |||||||||||
White-throated Quail-Dove | MI | RF | Geotrygon frenata | ||||||||||
Blue-and-yellow Macaw | CY | Ara ararauna | |||||||||||
Red-and-green Macaw | CY | Ara chloropterus | |||||||||||
Chestnut-fronted Macaw | CY | Ara severus | |||||||||||
White-eyed Parakeet | SU | Aratinga leucophthalma | |||||||||||
Dusky-headed Parakeet | CO | Aratinga weddellii | |||||||||||
Maroon-tailed Parakeet | CO | SU | LA | Pyrrhura melanura | |||||||||
Dusky-billed Parrotlet | CY | Forpus modestus | |||||||||||
Cobalt-winged Parakeet | CO | LA | RF | Brotogeris cyanoptera | |||||||||
Black-headed Parrot | CY | Pionites melanocephalus | |||||||||||
Blue-headed Parrot | CO | SU | Pionus menstruus | ||||||||||
Red-billed Parrot | MI | Pionus sordidus | |||||||||||
White-capped Parrot | HU | Pionus seniloides | |||||||||||
Bronze-winged Parrot | MI | Pionus chalcopterus | |||||||||||
Scaly-naped Amazon | TA | Amazona mercenaria | |||||||||||
Mealy Amazon | CO | Amazona farinosa | |||||||||||
Hoatzin | CY | Opisthocomus hoazin | |||||||||||
Greater Ani | CY | Crotophaga major | |||||||||||
Smooth-billed Ani | MI | CO | Crotophaga ani | ||||||||||
Striped Cuckoo | MI | PB | HU | Tapera naevia | |||||||||
Squirrel Cuckoo | TA | MI | CY | Piaya cayana | |||||||||
Tropical Screech Owl | CY | Megascops choliba | |||||||||||
Tawny-bellied Screech Owl | CY | Megascops watsonii | |||||||||||
White-throated Screech Owl | TA | Megascops albogularis | |||||||||||
Great Horned Owl | PP | Bubo virginianus | |||||||||||
Ferruginous Pygmy Owl | CO | SU | Glaucidium brasilianum | ||||||||||
Common Potoo | CY | Nyctibius griseus | |||||||||||
Pauraque | MI | TE | Nyctidromus albicollis | ||||||||||
Chestnut-collared Swift | TA | MI | Streptoprocne rutila | ||||||||||
White-collared Swift | TA | PB | Streptoprocne zonaris | ||||||||||
Grey-rumped Swift | MI | HU | RF | Chaetura cinereiventris | |||||||||
Short-tailed Swift | TE | CO | LA | Chaetura brachyura | |||||||||
Neotropical Palm Swift | LA | Tachornis squamata | |||||||||||
Little Hermit | CY | Phaethornis longuemareus | |||||||||||
Reddish Hermit | CY | Phaethornis ruber | |||||||||||
Brown Violetear | MI | Colibri delphinae | |||||||||||
Sparkling Violetear | MI | HU | TE | RF | Colibri coruscans | ||||||||
Wire-crested Thorntail | RF | Discosura popelairii | |||||||||||
Western Emerald | TA | Chlorostilbon melanorhynchus | |||||||||||
White-chinned Sapphire | RF | Hylocharis cyanus | |||||||||||
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird | MI | Amazilia tzacatl | |||||||||||
Glittering-throated Emerald | CO | Amazilia fimbriata | |||||||||||
Speckled Hummingbird | TA | Adelomyia melanogenys | |||||||||||
Fawn-breasted Brilliant | TA | Heliodoxa rubinoides | |||||||||||
White-tailed Hillstar | RF | Urochroa bougueri | |||||||||||
Shining Sunbeam | PP | Aglaeactis cupripennis | |||||||||||
Mountain Velvetbreast | PP | PB | Lafresnaya lafresnayi | ||||||||||
Bronzy Inca | RF | Coeligena coeligena | |||||||||||
Collared Inca | TA | PB | Coeligena torquata | ||||||||||
Buff-winged Starfrontlet | PP | Coeligena lutetiae | |||||||||||
Gorgeted Sunangel | TA | MI | Heliangelus strophianus | ||||||||||
Greenish Puffleg | HU | Haplophaedia aureliae | |||||||||||
Booted Racket-tail | MI | Ocreatus underwoodii | |||||||||||
Green-tailed Trainbearer | PB | Lesbia nuna | |||||||||||
Viridian Metaltail | PP | Metallura williami | |||||||||||
Long-tailed Sylph | RF | Aglaiocercus kingii | |||||||||||
Purple-crowned Fairy | MI | Heliothryx barroti | |||||||||||
Golden-headed Quetzal | TA | MI | Pharomachrus auriceps | ||||||||||
Amazonian White-tailed Trogon | CO | CY | Trogon viridis | ||||||||||
Blue-crowned Trogon | CY | Trogon curucui | |||||||||||
Masked Trogon | TA | Trogon personatus | |||||||||||
American Pygmy Kingfisher | CY | Chloroceryle aenea | |||||||||||
Green Kingfisher | TE | UL | CO | CY | Chloroceryle americana | ||||||||
Ringed Kingfisher | LA | CY | Megaceryle torquata | ||||||||||
Amazonian Motmot | CY | Momotus momota | |||||||||||
White-eared Jacamar | CO | Galbalcyrhynchus leucotis | |||||||||||
Coppery-chested Jacamar | RF | Galbula pastazae | |||||||||||
White-chinned Jacamar | CY | Galbula tombacea | |||||||||||
Brown Nunlet | CY | Nonnula brunnea | |||||||||||
Black-fronted Nunbird | CO | SU | LA | Monasa nigrifrons | |||||||||
White-fronted Nunbird | CY | Monasa morphoeus | |||||||||||
Yellow-billed Nunbird | LA | Monasa flavirostris | |||||||||||
Swallow-winged Puffbird | CO | Chelidoptera tenebrosa | |||||||||||
Scarlet-crowned Barbet | LA | Capito aurovirens | |||||||||||
Gilded Barbet | UL | CO | CY | Capito auratus | |||||||||
Lemon-throated Barbet | TE | Eubucco richardsoni | |||||||||||
Red-headed Barbet | MI | UL | RF | Eubucco bourcierii | |||||||||
Toucan-Barbet | TA | MI | Semnornis ramphastinus | ||||||||||
Crimson-rumped Toucanet | TA | MI | Aulacorhynchus haematopygus | ||||||||||
Lettered Aracari | SU | CY | Pteroglossus inscriptus | ||||||||||
Ivory-billed Aracari | SU | Pteroglossus azara | |||||||||||
Chestnut-eared Aracari | CO | SU | LA | Pteroglossus castanotis | |||||||||
Many-banded Aracari | CY | RF | Pteroglossus pluricinctus | ||||||||||
Pale-mandibled Aracari | MI | Pteroglossus erythropygius | |||||||||||
Golden-collared Toucanet | CY | Selenidera reinwardtii | |||||||||||
Channel-billed Toucan | CO | CY | Ramphastos vitellinus | ||||||||||
Chestnut-mandibled Toucan | MI | Ramphastos swainsonii | |||||||||||
Lafresnaye's Piculet | UL | Picumnus lafresnayi | |||||||||||
Yellow-tufted Woodpecker | CO | SU | RF | Melanerpes cruentatus | |||||||||
Yellow-vented Woodpecker | RF | Veniliornis dignus | |||||||||||
Little Woodpecker | TE | LA | Veniliornis passerinus | ||||||||||
Golden-olive Woodpecker | MI | Colaptes rubiginosus | |||||||||||
Spot-breasted Woodpecker | TE | CO | SU | LA | RF | Colaptes punctigula | |||||||
Chestnut Woodpecker | CY | Celeus elegans | |||||||||||
Cream-colored Woodpecker | CY | Celeus flavus | |||||||||||
Lineated Woodpecker | MI | SU | CY | Dryocopus lineatus | |||||||||
Powerful Woodpecker | UL | Campephilus pollens | |||||||||||
Crimson-crested Woodpecker | SU | Campephilus melanoleucos | |||||||||||
Pale-legged Hornero | MI | Furnarius leucopus | |||||||||||
Pacific Hornero | Furnarius cinnamomeus | ||||||||||||
Rufous Spinetail | TA | Synallaxis unirufa | |||||||||||
Azara's Spinetail | TA | Synallaxis azarae | |||||||||||
Dark-breasted Spinetail | TE | Synallaxis albigularis | |||||||||||
Slaty Spinetail | MI | Synallaxis brachyura | |||||||||||
Pearled Treerunner | PP | Margarornis squamiger | |||||||||||
Western Woodhaunter | MI | Hyloctistes virgatus | |||||||||||
Buff-fronted Foliage-gleaner | MI | Philydor rufum | |||||||||||
Plain Xenops | MI | Xenops minutus | |||||||||||
Plain-brown Woodcreeper | CO | Dendrocincla fuliginosa | |||||||||||
Olivaceous Woodcreeper | UL | Sittasomus griseicapillus | |||||||||||
Strong-billed Woodcreeper | CY | Xiphocolaptes promeropirhynchus | |||||||||||
Black-banded Woodcreeper | UL | Dendrocolaptes picumnus | |||||||||||
Olive-backed Woodcreeper | RF | Xiphorhynchus triangularis | |||||||||||
Montane Woodcreeper | TA | MI | Lepidocolaptes lacrymiger | ||||||||||
Great Antshrike | CO | Taraba major | |||||||||||
Lined Antshrike | TE | UL | Thamnophilus tenuepunctatus | ||||||||||
Amazonian Streaked Antwren | CY | Myrmotherula multostriata | |||||||||||
Stripe-chested Antwren | TE | Myrmotherula longicauda | |||||||||||
Yellow-breasted Antwren | UL | Herpsilochmus axillaris | |||||||||||
Streak-headed Antbird | TA | MI | Drymophila striaticeps | ||||||||||
White-backed Fire-eye | RF | Pyriglena leuconota | |||||||||||
Peruvian Warbling Antbird | TE | Hypocnemis peruviana | |||||||||||
Spot-backed Antbird | CY | Hylophylax naevius | |||||||||||
Rufous Antpitta | TA | Grallaria rufula | |||||||||||
Tawny Antpitta | PP | Grallaria quitensis | |||||||||||
White-lored Antpitta | TE | Hylopezus fulviventris | |||||||||||
Slaty-crowned Antpitta | HU | Grallaricula nana | |||||||||||
Ocellated Tapaculo | TA | Acropternis orthonyx | |||||||||||
Yellow-bellied Elaenia | TE | Elaenia flavogaster | |||||||||||
Southern Beardless Tyrannulet | MI | Camptostoma obsoletum | |||||||||||
White-tailed Tyrannulet | TA | PP | PB | Mecocerculus poecilocercus | |||||||||
White-banded Tyrannulet | PP | Mecocerculus stictopterus | |||||||||||
Torrent Tyrannulet | MI | HU | UL | Serpophaga cinerea | |||||||||
Yellow Tyrannulet | MI | Capsiempis flaveola | |||||||||||
Rufous-headed Pygmy Tyrant | TA | Pseudotriccus ruficeps | |||||||||||
Ecuadorian Tyrannulet | RF | Phylloscartes gualaquizae | |||||||||||
Streak-necked Flycatcher | TA | Mionectes striaticollis | |||||||||||
Olive-striped Flycatcher | RF | Mionectes olivaceus | |||||||||||
Ornate Flycatcher | MI | Myiotriccus ornatus | |||||||||||
Golden-winged Tody-Flycatcher | TE | Poecilotriccus calopterus | |||||||||||
Common Tody-Flycatcher | TE | Todirostrum cinereum | |||||||||||
Black-headed Tody-Flycatcher | TE | Todirostrum nigriceps | |||||||||||
White-throated Spadebill | MI | Platyrinchus mystaceus | |||||||||||
Cinnamon Flycatcher | TA | HU | Pyrrhomyias cinnamomeus | ||||||||||
Cliff Flycatcher | UL | Hirundinea ferruginea | |||||||||||
Black Phoebe | PB | Sayornis nigricans | |||||||||||
Smoke-colored Pewee | TA | Contopus fumigatus | |||||||||||
Vermilion Flycatcher | TA | Pyrocephalus rubinus | |||||||||||
Black-billed Shrike-Tyrant | PP | Agriornis montanus | |||||||||||
Slaty-backed Chat-Tyrant | PB | Ochthoeca cinnamomeiventris | |||||||||||
Brown-backed Chat-Tyrant | PP | Ochthoeca fumicolor | |||||||||||
Social Flycatcher | CO | LA | CY | Myiozetetes similis | |||||||||
Great Kiskadee | UL | CO | LA | Pitangus sulphuratus | |||||||||
Lesser Kiskadee | TE | CO | Philohydor lictor | ||||||||||
Yellow-throated Flycatcher | CO | Conopias parvus | |||||||||||
Lemon-browed Flycatcher | PB | Conopias cinchoneti | |||||||||||
Streaked Flycatcher | SU | Myiodynastes maculatus | |||||||||||
Boat-billed Flycatcher | CY | RF | Megarynchus pitangua | ||||||||||
Tropical Kingbird | MI | PB | TE | LA | Tyrannus melancholicus | ||||||||
Dusky-capped Flycatcher | MI | Myiarchus tuberculifer | |||||||||||
Red-crested Cotinga | TA | PP | Ampelion rubrocristatus | ||||||||||
Green-and-black Fruiteater | TA | UL | Pipreola riefferii | ||||||||||
Andean Cock-of-the-rock | MI | RF | Rupicola peruvianus | ||||||||||
Black-necked Red Cotinga | CY | Phoenicircus nigricollis | |||||||||||
Purple-throated Fruitcrow | CY | Querula purpurata | |||||||||||
Amazonian Umbrellabird | UL | Cephalopterus ornatus | |||||||||||
White-bearded Manakin | TE | Manacus manacus | |||||||||||
Golden-headed Manakin | CY | Pipra erythrocephala | |||||||||||
Black-crowned Tityra | MI | LA | Tityra inquisitor | ||||||||||
Black-tailed Tityra | UL | CO | Tityra cayana | ||||||||||
Masked Tityra | MI | UL | Tityra semifasciata | ||||||||||
Brown-capped Vireo | TA | Vireo leucophrys | |||||||||||
Turquoise Jay | PB | Cyanolyca turcosa | |||||||||||
Violaceous Jay | CO | LA | CY | Cyanocorax violaceus | |||||||||
Inca Jay | PB | HU | RF | Cyanocorax yncas | |||||||||
White-winged Swallow | LA | CY | Tachycineta albiventer | ||||||||||
Blue-and-white Swallow | TA | PB | HU | UL | CO | LA | RF | Notiochelidon cyanoleuca | |||||
Brown-bellied Swallow | PP | PB | Notiochelidon murina | ||||||||||
White-banded Swallow | TE | CO | Atticora fasciata | ||||||||||
Southern Rough-winged Swallow | HU | TE | CO | LA | RF | Stelgidopteryx ruficollis | |||||||
Barn Swallow | Hirundo rustica | ||||||||||||
Black-capped Donacobius | TE | CO | SU | LA | CY | Donacobius atricapilla | |||||||
Thrush-like Wren | CO | Campylorhynchus turdinus | |||||||||||
Sedge Wren | PP | Cistothorus platensis | |||||||||||
Plain-tailed Wren | TA | MI | Thryothorus euophrys | ||||||||||
Coraya Wren | TE | Thryothorus coraya | |||||||||||
House Wren | TE | LA | Troglodytes aedon | ||||||||||
Grey-breasted Wood Wren | TA | HU | Henicorhina leucophrys | ||||||||||
Southern Nightingale-Wren | MI | TE | Microcerculus marginatus | ||||||||||
Andean Solitaire | TA | RF | Myadestes ralloides | ||||||||||
Black Solitaire | TA | Entomodestes coracinus | |||||||||||
Great Thrush | PP | PB | HU | Turdus fuscater | |||||||||
Glossy-black Thrush | TA | Turdus serranus | |||||||||||
Black-billed Thrush | TE | UL | CO | LA | Turdus ignobilis | ||||||||
White-capped Dipper | MI | Cinclus leucocephalus | |||||||||||
Thick-billed Euphonia | MI | Euphonia laniirostris | |||||||||||
Golden-rumped Euphonia | HU | Euphonia cyanocephala | |||||||||||
Orange-bellied Euphonia | MI | UL | Euphonia xanthogaster | ||||||||||
Olivaceous Siskin | UL | Carduelis olivacea | |||||||||||
Olive-crowned Yellowthroat | MI | Geothlypis semiflava | |||||||||||
Slate-throated Whitestart | TA | Myioborus miniatus | |||||||||||
Spectacled Whitestart | PP | PB | HU | Myioborus melanocephalus | |||||||||
Black-crested Warbler | PB | HU | Basileuterus nigrocristatus | ||||||||||
Russet-crowned Warbler | TA | Basileuterus coronatus | |||||||||||
Three-striped Warbler | MI | Basileuterus tristriatus | |||||||||||
Buff-rumped Warbler | TE | Phaeothlypis fulvicauda | |||||||||||
Russet-backed Oropendola | TA | MI | HU | CO | LA | RF | Psarocolius angustifrons | ||||||
Yellow-rumped Cacique | TE | CO | LA | Cacicus cela | |||||||||
Scarlet-rumped Cacique | PB | Cacicus microrhynchus | |||||||||||
Northern Mountain Cacique | PB | Cacicus leucoramphus | |||||||||||
Orange-backed Troupial | CO | Icterus croconotus | |||||||||||
Moriche Oriole | CY | Icterus chrysocephalus | |||||||||||
Velvet-fronted Grackle | CY | Lampropsar tanagrinus | |||||||||||
Giant Cowbird | MI | CO | LA | Molothrus oryzivorus | |||||||||
Bananaquit | MI | UL | RF | Coereba flaveola | |||||||||
Rufous-collared Sparrow | TA | PB | Zonotrichia capensis | ||||||||||
Yellow-browed Sparrow | HU | TE | RF | Ammodramus aurifrons | |||||||||
Pale-naped Brush Finch | PP | Atlapetes pallidinucha | |||||||||||
Tricolored Brush Finch | TA | Atlapetes tricolor | |||||||||||
Red-capped Cardinal | CY | Paroaria gularis | |||||||||||
Magpie Tanager | UL | CO | LA | RF | Cissopis leverianus | ||||||||
Black-headed Hemispingus | PP | Hemispingus verticalis | |||||||||||
Rufous-chested Tanager | TA | Thlypopsis ornata | |||||||||||
White-shouldered Tanager | TE | Tachyphonus luctuosus | |||||||||||
White-lined Tanager | TE | Tachyphonus rufus | |||||||||||
Masked Crimson Tanager | CO | CY | Ramphocelus nigrogularis | ||||||||||
Silver-beaked Tanager | TE | UL | CO | LA | RF | Ramphocelus carbo | |||||||
Lemon-rumped Tanager | TA | MI | Ramphocelus icteronotus | ||||||||||
Blue-grey Tanager | MI | UL | LA | Thraupis episcopus | |||||||||
Palm Tanager | TE | CO | LA | Thraupis palmarum | |||||||||
Blue-capped Tanager | TA | Thraupis cyanocephala | |||||||||||
Hooded Mountain Tanager | TA | PB | Buthraupis montana | ||||||||||
Black-chested Mountain Tanager | PP | Buthraupis eximia | |||||||||||
Masked Mountain Tanager | PP | Buthraupis wetmorei | |||||||||||
Scarlet-bellied Mountain Tanager | PP | Anisognathus igniventris | |||||||||||
Blue-winged Mountain Tanager | TA | MI | PB | Anisognathus somptuosus | |||||||||
Grass-green Tanager | TA | MI | Chlorornis riefferii | ||||||||||
Buff-breasted Mountain Tanager | PP | Dubusia taeniata | |||||||||||
Fawn-breasted Tanager | PB | Pipraeidea melanonota | |||||||||||
Orange-eared Tanager | UL | RF | Chlorochrysa calliparaea | ||||||||||
Turquoise Tanager | TE | CO | Tangara mexicana | ||||||||||
Paradise Tanager | UL | RF | Tangara chilensis | ||||||||||
Green-and-gold Tanager | UL | Tangara schrankii | |||||||||||
Golden Tanager | TA | MI | UL | RF | Tangara arthus | ||||||||
Saffron-crowned Tanager | MI | Tangara xanthocephala | |||||||||||
Golden-eared Tanager | RF | Tangara chrysotis | |||||||||||
Flame-faced Tanager | TA | Tangara parzudakii | |||||||||||
Yellow-bellied Tanager | RF | Tangara xanthogastra | |||||||||||
Rufous-throated Tanager | MI | Tangara rufigula | |||||||||||
Bay-headed Tanager | MI | UL | RF | Tangara gyrola | |||||||||
Golden-naped Tanager | TA | PB | Tangara ruficervix | ||||||||||
Blue-necked Tanager | MI | TE | UL | LA | RF | Tangara cyanicollis | |||||||
Beryl-spangled Tanager | TA | MI | Tangara nigroviridis | ||||||||||
Blue-and-black Tanager | TA | PB | HU | RF | Tangara vassorii | ||||||||
Swallow Tanager | TA | MI | TE | Tersina viridis | |||||||||
Blue Dacnis | UL | Dacnis cayana | |||||||||||
Cinereous Conebill | PP | Conirostrum cinereum | |||||||||||
Blue-backed Conebill | PP | PB | Conirostrum sitticolor | ||||||||||
Capped Conebill | TA | Conirostrum albifrons | |||||||||||
Giant Conebill | PP | Oreomanes fraseri | |||||||||||
Black Flowerpiercer | PP | PB | Diglossa humeralis | ||||||||||
Golden-eyed Flowerpiercer | UL | RF | Diglossopis glauca | ||||||||||
Masked Flowerpiercer | TA | PB | Diglossopis cyanea | ||||||||||
Black-backed Bush Tanager | PP | Urothraupis stolzmanni | |||||||||||
Plumbeous Sierra Finch | PP | Phrygilus unicolor | |||||||||||
Black-and-white Seedeater | TE | Sporophila luctuosa | |||||||||||
Yellow-bellied Seedeater | TA | MI | Sporophila nigricollis | ||||||||||
Chestnut-bellied Seedeater | HU | TE | Sporophila castaneiventris | ||||||||||
Thick-billed Seed Finch | TE | CO | LA | Oryzoborus funereus | |||||||||
Plain-colored Seedeater | PP | Catamenia inornata | |||||||||||
Dusky Bush Tanager | TA | Chlorospingus semifuscus | |||||||||||
Yellow-throated Bush Tanager | MI | UL | Chlorospingus flavigularis | ||||||||||
Buff-throated Saltator | TA | Saltator maximus | |||||||||||
Black-winged Saltator | TA | MI | Saltator atripennis | ||||||||||
Greyish Saltator | TE | CO | LA | Saltator coerulescens | |||||||||