1 - 15 August 1998

by Brad Bergstrom

Below is a list of 466 species of birds identified in approx. 2 weeks by a group of 9 birders in northern Ecuador, visiting half a dozen sites from the Andes down the Pacific slope and ending up along the Napo River in the Amazon Basin.   Juan Veintimilla of Quito made in-country arrangements.  John Rollins, an American ex-pat and noted Ecuadorian birder helped out with guiding at Yanacocha.  Venicio Perez (who has an amazing ear and memory and an Ecuadorian life list of 1400) guided us to a Cock-of-the-Rock lek and many other fabulous birds on his own property outside of Mindo.  Our native guide, Oscar, at Sacha Lodge on the Napo was equally skilled at bird-finding--from the forest trails, the 140-ft tree tower, and the dugout canoe.

Highlights included 45 species of tanagers and allies, 37 species of hummingbirds, 61 tyrannids, 19 parrots, 10 toucans, 5 barbets, 7 nightjars, 6 trogons, 20 furnariids, 24 antbirds, and the famed hoatzin; also 5 monkeys, sloths, agouti, caiman, and a 7.1 magnitude earthquake.

We saw some of the Ecuadorian endemics, including Pale-mandibled Aracari, some Choco forest endemics such as Scarlet-breasted Dacnis and Silver-throated Warbler and some Amazonian river-island endemics, including White-bellied Spinetail, Olive-spotted Hummingbird, and Castelnau's Antshrike.

We spent the following times (days) at the following localities and habitats, which are recorded for each species (see legend): Interandean, urban parks (1); paramo, Cotapaxi NP (<1 day, 1 person); pre-paramo/ polylepis forest at Yanacocha (<1); cloudforest in Bellavista area (3; includes entrance Rd., part of old Nono-Mindo Rd.  and "Lindo Mindo" gardens along main Hwy north of town of Mindo); montane forest at/near Mindo-Nambillo preserve and town of Mindo (2); pre-montane Choco rainforest along Rio Silanche, near Pedro Vicente Maldonado (<1); Pacific lowland Rainforest at Rio Palenque (1; includes roadside areas near Santo Domingo de los Colorados); pre-montane forest at Tinalandia (1.5); Amazonian lowland rainforest (3).

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 Birds Seen (and Heard Only)

Legend:

Q = Quito/Otavalo & Inter-Andean N.  Ecuador (with P= Pifo, 10000+ ft.;

C= Cotopaxi NP, 12,000+ ft.);

Y = Yanacocha, 11,000+ ft.;

B = Bellavista, 6-7,000 ft.  (with L= Mindo Lindo, 5,000 ft.; N= Nono-Mindo Rd.);

M = Mindo area, 4-5,000 ft.;

C = Choco rainforest along Rio Silanche, 2-3,000 ft);

P = Rio Palenque Preserve & Santo Domingo de Los Colorados, 800 ft.;

T = Tinalandia, 2500 ft.;

N = Rio Napo, Amazonian Lowlands, esp.  Sacha Lodge.
 

                                      Q    Y    B    M    C    P    T    N

(Great Tinamou)                                                          x
(Little Tinamou)                                               x         x
Pied-billed Grebe                     P
Silvery Grebe                         C
Neotropic Cormorant                                       x    x
Andean Teal                           C
Cocoi Heron                                                              x
Striated Heron                                         x
(Rufescent Tiger-Heron)                                                  x
Cattle Egret                                                   x         x
Great Egret                                                    x         x
Roseate Spoonbill                                                        x
Black Vulture                                        x    x    x         x
Turkey Vulture                                  x    x    x    x         x
Yellow-headed Vulture                                                    x
Andean Condor                              x

Sites                                 Q    Y    B    M    C    P    T    N

Osprey                                                                   x
Hook-billed Kite                                     x                   x
Double-toothed Kite                                                      x
Plumbeous Kite                                                           x
Swallow-tailed Kite                                       x
Slender-billed Kite                                                      x
Black-and-Chestnut Eagle                   x
Crested Eagle                                        x
(Barred Hawk)                                        x
Plain-breasted Hawk                             x    x
Roadside Hawk                              x    x    x    x    x         x
Variable Hawk                              x
American Kestrel                     P,C   x
Merlin                                x
Bat Falcon                                           x
Laughing Falcon                                           x
(Barred Forest Falcon)                               x
(Collared Forest Falcon)                        x
(Lined Forest Falcon)                                x                   x
Yellow-headed Caracara                                                   x
Black Caracara                                                           x

Sites                                 Q    Y    B    M    C    P    T    N

Speckled Chachalaca                                                      x
Blue-throated Piping-Guan                                                x
Sickle-winged Guan                              x
Wattled Guan                                    x
(Dark-backed Wood-Quail)                        x
(Marbled Wood-Quail)                                                     x
Rufous-fronted Wood-Quail                            x
Andean Coot                           C
(White-throated Crake)                               x
Purple Gallinule                                                         x
(Limpkin)                                                                x
Wattled Jacana                                                           x
Southern Lapwing                                                         x
Andean Lapwing                        C
Greater Yellowlegs                    C                                  x
Lesser Yellowlegs                     C
Spotted Sandpiper                                                        x
Baird's Sandpiper                     C
Andean Gull                           C
Large-billed Tern                                                        x
Yellow-billed Tern                                                       x

Sites                                 Q    Y    B    M    C    P    T    N

Rock Dove                             x    x         x         x
Band-tailed Pigeon                              x
Plumbeous Pigeon                                x
Pale-vented Pigeon                                                       x
Ruddy Pigeon                                         x    x              x
Ruddy Ground-dove                                                        x
Blue Ground-dove                                               x
White-tipped Dove                                              x
Eared Dove                            x    x
Pallid Dove                                                         x
Ruddy Quail-Dove                                                         x
White-throated Quail-Dove                      (x)   x
Great Green Macaw                                         x
Chestnut-fronted Macaw                                                   x
Military Macaw                                                           x
Red-bellied Macaw                                                        x
Barred Parakeet                                 x
White-eyed Parakeet                                                      x
Dusky-headed Parakeet                                                    x

Sites                                 Q    Y    B    M    C    P    T    N

Maroon-tailed Parakeet                                                   x
Cobalt-winged Parakeet                                                   x
Yellow-crowned Parrot                                                    x
Orange-winged Parrot                                                     x
Black-headed Parrot                                                      x
Red-billed Parrot                               x
Scaly-naped Parrot                              x
Bronze-winged Parrot                                 x
Blue-headed Parrot                                   x    x              x
Mealy Parrot                                                             x
Blue-winged Parrotlet                                                    x
Blue-fronted Parrotlet                          x

Sites                                 Q    Y    B    M    C    P    T    N

Squirrel Cuckoo                                 x    x    x    x         x
Striped Cuckoo                                            x
Smooth-billed Ani                                    x    x    x         x
Greater Ani                                                              x
Hoatzin                                                                  x
(Ferruginous Pygmy Owl)                                                  x
Tropical Screech Owl                                                     x
Tawny-bellied Screech Owl                                                x
Crested Owl                                                              x
Black-banded Owl                                                         x
Rufous-banded Owl                               x
(Andean Pygmy Owl)                              x    x
(White-throated Owl)                            x
Common Potoo                                    x    x
Rufous-bellied Nighthawk                        x
Swallow-tailed Nightjar                         x
Lyre-tailed Nightjar                           (x)                  x
Ladder-tailed Nightjar                                                   x
Band-winged Nightjar                            x
Common Pauraque                                      x
White-collared Swift                            x              x         x
Chestnut-collared Swift                         x    x
Short-tailed Swift                                                      x
Band-rumped Swift                                    x
Gray-rumped Swift                                                   x
Fork-tailed Palm Swift                                                   x
Lesser Swallow-tailed Swift                                    x

Sites                                 Q    Y    B    M    C    P    T    N

Baron's (was Long-tailed) Hermit                               x    x
Straight-billed Hermit                                                   x
Tawny-bellied Hermit                            x
Band-tailed Barbthroat                                         x
White-whiskered Hermit                                              x
Rufous-breasted Hermit                                                   x
White-necked Jacobin                                           x
Rufous-tailed Hmngbrd.                                   x          x    x
Green-crowned Woodnymph                              x              x
Fork-tailed Woodnymph                                                    x
Purple-crowned Fairy                                           x
Blue-tailed Emerald                                                      x
Western Emerald                                                     x
Andean Emerald                                  L    x
Green-crowned Brilliant                                             x

Sites                                 Q    Y    B    M    C    P    T    N

Fawn-breasted Brilliant                         x
Ecuadorian Hillstar                   C
Shining Sunbeam                       x    x
Collared Inca                                   x
Buff-winged Starfrontlet                   x
Buff-tailed Coronet                             x
Velvet-purple Coronet                           L
Green Violetear                                 x
Sparkling Violetear                   x
Brown Violetear                                      x
Speckled Hummingbird                            x
Olive-spotted Hummingbird                                                x
Jewelfront                                                               x
Gorgeted Sunangel                               x
Sapphire-vented Puffleg                    x
Purple-bibbed Whitetip                               x
Black-tailed Trainbearer              x    x
Tyrian Metaltail                           x
Blue-headed Sapphire                            L
Violet-tailed Sylph                             L
Purple-throated Woodstar                        x
White-bellied Woodstar                          x

Sites                                 Q    Y    B    M    C    P    T    N

Black-tailed Trogon                                            x
Masked Trogon                                   x                   x
White-tailed Trogon                                                      x
Collared Trogon                                               x
(Crested Quetzal)                               x
Golden-headed Quetzal                                L
Green Kingfisher                                                    x    x
Ringed Kingfisher                                        x              x
Pygmy Kingfisher                                                         x
Green-and-Rufous Kingfisher                                              x
Blue-crowned Motmot                                                      x
Rufous Motmot                                                       x
White-eared Jacamar                                                      x
White-chinned Jacamar                                                    x
Brown Jacamar                                                            x
(Barred Puffbird)                                    x         x
Black-fronted Nunbird                                                    x
Swallow-wing                                                             x

Sites                                 Q    Y    B    M    C    P    T    N

Toucan Barbet                                   x   (x)
Orange-fronted Barbet                                     x
Red-headed Barbet                                         x
Black-spotted Barbet                                                     x
Scarlet-crowned Barbet                                                   x
Many-banded Aracari                                                      x
Ivory-billed Aracari                                                     x
Lettered Aracari                                                         x
Pale-mandibled Aracari                               x    x
Golden-collared Toucanet                                                 x
Crimson-rumped Toucanet                              x
Plate-billed Mountain-Toucan                   x
Choco Toucan                                                        x
Yellow-ridged Toucan                                                     x
White-throated Toucan                                                    x

Sites                                 Q    Y    B    M    C    P    T    N

Olivaceous Piculet                                             x
Chestnut Piculet                                N
Lineated Woodpecker                                       x
Black-cheeked Woodpecker                                       x
Golden-olive Woodpecker                              x
Guayaquil Woodpecker                                           x
Crimson-crested Woodpecker                                               x
Chestnut Woodpecker                                                      x
Smoky-brown Woodpecker                               x
Spot-breasted Woodpecker                                                 x
Scale-breasted Woodpecker                                                x
Cream-colored Woodpecker                                                 x
Yellow-tufted Woodpecker                                                 x

Sites                                 Q    Y    B    M    C    P    T    N

Spotted Woodcreeper                                                 x
Tyrannine Woodcreeper                           x
Streak-headed Woodcreeper                                      x
(Strong-billed Woodcreeper)                     x
Montane Woodcreeper                             x   (x)
Buff-throated Woodcreeper                                                x
Wedge-billed Woodcreeper                             x              x    x
Barred Woodcreeper                                                  x    x
Black-banded Woodcreeper                                                 x
Plain-brown Woodcreeper                                                  x
Stout-billed Cinclodes                C
Bar-winged Cinclodes                  C
Buff-fronted Foliage-gleaner                         x
Scaly-throated Foliage-gleaner                       x

Sites                                 Q    Y    B    M    C    P    T    N

Slaty-winged Foliage-gleaner                              x
(Chestnut-crowned Foliage-gleaner)                                       x
(Lineated Foliage-gleaner)                      x
Pacific Hornero                                           x   (x)   x
Azara's Spinetail                               x    x
Red-faced Spinetail                             x    x    x
Slaty Spinetail                                      x
Rufous Spinetail                                x
Dark-breasted Spinetail                                                  x
White-bellied Spinetail                                                  x
Rusty-backed Spinetail                                                   x
Uniform Treehunter                                        x
Pearled Treerunner                         x
(Striped Treehunter)                            x
(Streak-capped Treehunter)                           x
Orange-fronted Plushcrown                                                x

Sites                                 Q    Y    B    M    C    P    T    N

(Black-faced Antthrush)                                                  x
(Rufous-breasted Antthrush)                          x
Noble (=Striated) Antthrush                                              x
Barred Antshrike                                                         x
Fasciated Antshrike                                                      x
Dusky-throated Antshrike                                                 x
(Castelnau's Antshrike)                                                  x
Western Slaty Antshrike                                   x
Checker-throated Antwren                                  x
Pygmy Antwren                                                            x
Dot-winged Antwren                                             x
Streaked Antwren                                                    x
White-flanked Antwren                                                    x
Dugand's Antwren                                                         x
White-shouldered Antbird                                                 x
(Long-tailed Antbird)                           x
(Chestnut-backed Antbird)                            x         x
Thrushlike Antpitta                                                      x
(Chestnut-crowned Antpitta)                     x
(Chestnut-naped Antpitta)                            x
(Unicolored Tapaculo)                      x
Ocellated Tapaculo                         x
(Rusty-belted Tapaculo)                                                  x
(Spillman's Tapaculo)                           x

Sites                                 Q    Y    B    M    C    P    T    N

White-bearded Manakin                                     x
Wire-tailed Manakin                                                      x
Orange-crested Manakin                                                   x
Club-winged Manakin                                  x
White-browed Purpletuft                                                  x
Plum-throated Cotinga                                                    x
Black-tipped Cotinga                                      x
Screaming Piha                                                           x
Purple-throated Fruit-crow                                x         x    x
Bare-necked Fruitcrow                                                    x
Amazonian Umbrellabird                                                   x
(Green-and-Black Fruiteater)                    x
Andean Cock-of-the-Rock                              x
Streak-necked Flycatcher                        x
Olive-striped Flycatcher                                       x
Scale-crested Pygmy-tyrant                           x
Tawny-crowned Pygmy-Tyrant                      x
Common Tody-flycatcher                               x    x
Yellow-browed Tody-flycatcher                                            x
Black-headed Tody-Flycatcher                                        x

Sites                                 Q    Y    B    M    C    P    T    N

White-throated Tyrranulet                  x
White-tailed Tyrranulet                         x
White-banded Tyrranulet                    x
Sooty-headed Tyrranulet                              x
Ashy-headed Tyrranulet                               x
Southern Beardless Tyrannulet                                       x
Yellow-crowned Tyrranulet                                                x
Golden-faced Tyrranulet                                   x         x
Torrent Tyrranulet                                   x
White-crested Elaenia                           x
Mottle-backed Elaenia                                                    x
Yellow-bellied Elaenia                               x         x
Brown-backed Chat-Tyrant                   x
Yellow-bellied Chat-Tyrant                      x
Streak-throated Bush-tyrant                x
Smoky Bush-tyrant                          x
Plain-capped Ground-Tyrant            C    x
Black-billed Shrike-Tyrant            P
Drab Water-tyrant                                                        x
Masked Water-tyrant                                            x    x
Sirystes                                                                 x
Streaked Flycatcher                                                      x
Great Kiskadee                                                           x
Boat-billed Flycatcher                                                   x

Sites                                 Q    Y    B    M    C    P    T    N

Social Flycatcher                                    x         x    x    x
Rusty-margined Flycatcher                                 x
Piratic Flycatcher                                                       x
Crowned Slaty-Flycatcher                                                 x
Variegated Flycatcher                                                    x
White-ringed Flycatcher                                                  x
Lemon-browed Flycatcher                              x
Flavescent Flycatcher                           x
Short-crested Flycatcher                                                 x
Cinnamon Flycatcher                             x
Gray-capped Flycatcher                                                   x
Golden-crowned Flycatcher                       x
Ornate Flycatcher                                    x
Bran-colored Flycatcher                                             x
Tawny-breasted Flycatcher                                          x
Fork-tailed Flycatcher                                                   x

Sites                                 Q    Y    B    M    C    P    T    N

Dusky-capped Flycatcher                              x         x
Vermilion Flycatcher                  x
Smoke-colored Pewee                             L    x
Tropical Pewee                                       x
Black Phoebe                                    x    x
Tropical Kingbird                               x    x    x         x    x
(Bright-rumped Attila)                                                   x
Rufous Mourner                                            x
Cinnamon Becard                                      x
One-colored Becard                                   x
White-winged Becard                                  x                   x
Masked Tityra                                        x    x         x
Black-crowned Tityra                                           x         x
Black-tailed Tityra                                                      x

Sites                                 Q    Y    B    M    C    P    T    N

Gray-breasted Martin                                                     x
Brown-chested Martin                                                     x
Blue-and-white Swallow                     x                   x    x
Brown-bellied Swallow                      x
White-winged Swallow                                                     x
White-banded Swallow                                                     x
Rough-winged Swallow                              x    x         x    x
White-thighed Swallow                                     x
Turquoise Jay                                   x
Violaceous Jay                                                           x
(Beautiful Jay)                                 x
House Wren                                           x              x
Black-capped Donacobius                                                  x
Thrushlike Wren                                                          x
Rufous Wren                                x
Bay Wren                                             x
Sepia-Brown Wren                                x
Banded-backed Wren                                             x
Gray-mantled Wren                     x
Gray-breasted Wood-wren                         x    x
(White-breasted Wood-wren)                                               x
(Plain-tailed Wren)                             x
(Southern Nightingale-Wren)                                    x    x
Tropical Gnatcatcher                                      x

Sites                                 Q    Y    B    M    C    P    T    N

Red-eyed Vireo                                                           x
Lesser Greenlet                                      x
Brown-capped Vireo                              x         x    x
Black-billed Peppershrike                            x
White-capped Dipper                                                 x
(Slaty-backed Nightingale-thrush)                                   x
Black-billed Thrush                                                      x
Ecuadorian Thrush                                              x
Pale-vented Thrush                         x
Great Thrush                          x    x    x
Glossy-black Thrush                             x
Andean Solitaire                                     x
Buff-rumped Warbler                                                 x
Golden-bellied Warbler                                              x
Gray-and-Gold Warbler                      x
Russet-crowned Warbler                          x
Black-crested Warbler                                x
Three-striped Warbler                           x
Tropical Parula                                 L    x    x         x
Olive-crowned Yellowthroat                           x
Slate-throated Redstart                         x    x
Spectacled Redstart                             x

Sites                                 Q    Y    B    M    C    P    T    N

Green Honeycreeper                                                  x
Purple Honeycreeper                                                 x
Red-legged Honeycreeper                                                  x
Swallow Tanager                                 x    x    x              x
Black Flower-Piercer                       x
Bluish Flower-Piercer                           x
Glossy Flower-Piercer                      x
Masked Flower-Piercer                           x
Bananaquit                                                x
Blue Dacnis                                                         x
Black-faced Dacnis                                                       x
Yellow-tufted Dacnis                                      x         x
Scarlet-breasted Dacnis                                   x
Cinereous Conebill                    x    x
Blue-backed Conebill                       x
Capped Conebill                                 x
Superciliaried Hemispingus                 x
Silver-beaked Tanager                                                    x
Paradise Tanager                                                         x
Opal-rumped Tanager                                                      x
Masked Tanager                                                           x
Green-and-Gold Tanager                                                   x

Sites                                 Q    Y    B    M    C    P    T    N

Turquoise Tanager                                                        x
Masked Crimson Tanager                                                   x
White-shouldered Tanager                                       x         x
Grass-green Tanager                             x
Blue-capped Tanager                   x         x
Golden-naped Tanager                            x    x
Golden-hooded Tanager                                     x
Metallic Green Tanager                          x    x    x
Beryl-spangled Tanager                          x
Glistening-green Tanager                             x
Gray-and-Gold Tanager                                     x
Scarlet-and-White Tanager                                 x
Silver-throated Tanager                                   x         x
Dusky-faced Tanager                                                 x
Guira Tanager                                                       x
Magpie Tanager                                            x

Sites                                 Q    Y    B    M    C    P    T    N

Palm Tanager                                                        x    x
Lemon(=Flame=Bright)-rumped Tanager                  x    x         x
Fawn-breasted Tanager                                               x
Golden Tanager                                  x    x
Flame-faced Tanager                             x
Bay-headed Tanager                                        x         x
Blue-necked Tanager                                       x         x
White-winged Tanager                                 x
Blue-gray Tanager                                         x         x    x
Opal-crowned Tanager                                                     x
Blue-and-Black Tanager                          x
Blue-and-yellow Tanager                                   x
Gray-headed Tanager                                                      x
Hooded Mountain-Tanager                    x
Scarlet-bellied Mountain-Tanager           x
Blue-winged Mountain-Tanager                    x
Dusky Bush-Tanager                              x
Yellow-throated Bush-Tanager                                        x
Orange-bellied Euphonia                         x    x              x
Orange-crowned Euphonia                                   x
Thick-billed Euphonia                                               x
White-vented Euphonia                                                    x
Rufous-bellied Euphonia                                                  x
White-lored Euphonia                                                     x

Sites                                 Q    Y    B    M    C    P    T    N

House Sparrow                                                  S
Red-capped Cardinal                                                      x
Yellow Grosbeak                            x    x
Scrub Blackbird                                      x
Shiny Cowbird                                        x              x
Giant Cowbird                                        x                   x
Crested Oropendola                                                       x
Russet-backed Oropendola                             x                   x
Casqued Oropendola                                                       x
Yellow-rumped Cacique                                                    x
Red-breasted Blackbird                                                   x
Oriole Blackbird                                                         x
Hooded Siskin                              x
Lesser Goldfinch                      x
Rufous-collared Sparrow               C    x    x        (x)
Yellow-browed Sparrow                                                    x
Orange-billed Sparrow                                               x
Plush-capped Finch                         N
Plumbeous Sierra-Finch               P,C
Crimson Finch-Tanager                                          x
Rufous-naped Brush-Finch              x
Tri-colored Brush-finch                              x
Blue-black Grassquit                                                x
Variable Seedeater                                   x                   x
Chestnut-bellied Seedeater                                               x
Yellow-bellied Seedeater                             x
Slate-colored Seedeater               x
Band-tailed Seedeater                 x                             x
Plain-colored Seedeater                    x
Black-winged Saltator                                x    x
Buff-throated Saltator                               x    x         x

(464 spp.)

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