Northern Ecuador

16-30 September 2010

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Note...these were taken with a small Panasonic Lumix camera...no fancy
300mm lenses...so while these aren't as great as they could be, they do
serve to remind us of some of what we saw.  :-)


Pale-mandibled araçari

Masked water-tyrant

Blue-and-white swallow

Orange-fronted barbet

Crimson-rumped toucanet

White-tipped sicklebill

Green-crowned brilliant

Green honeycreeper

Woodcreeper...where's his head?
(sigh)

Orange-fronted barbet, redux

Ecuadorian thrush

A gecko! (who doesn't work
for Geico)

Butterfly

Pale-mandibled araçari, again

Green-crowned brilliant

Big snake we saw in the pond
at Tinalandia

Streaked flycatcher

Out-of-focus green gecko guy

Another reptile

Interesting mushrooms

Golden tanager

Hummingbird feeder activity
at the Mirador del Río Blanco

Orange-bellied euphonia,
blue-gray tanager

Blue-necked tanager

Ginger?

Angel Paz with giant antpitta,
Maria

Maria, the giant antpitta

Willie, the yellow-breasted
antpitta

Moths on rock in the stream
at Angel's

Moustached antpitta

Toucan barbet

Black-chinned mountain-tanagers

Black-chinned mountain-tanager

Speckled hummingbird

Female violet-tailed sylph

Velvet-purple coronets

Masked flowerpiercer
(pinchaflor in Spanish)

Flame-faced tanager

Velvet-purple coronet

Booted racket-tail - plenty of
boot but no rackets on this one

Great thrush

Plate-billed mountain-toucan

Plate-billed mountain-toucan,
#2

Young crimson-mantled
woodpecker (trust me) peaking
out of his nest hole

Rufous-bellied seed-snipe up
at Papallacta Pass

Hmm...chestnut-breasted
coronet, side view?

Tourmaline sunangel

Turquoise jay

Masked trogon (female)

Chestnut-breasted coronet

Glossy-black thrush, male

Female glossy-black thrush?
or pale-eyed thrush?

Inca jays

Chestnut-breasted coronet

Russet-backed oropendula

Inca jay

White-bellied antpitta

Rufous-collared sparrow

Black-chested buzzard-eagle

Plumbeous sierra-finch

Carunculated caracara

Plumbeous sierra-finch,
one more time

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