Ecuador; Eastern Slope

 

November 23-20, 2006

 

By Roger Wolfe

 

 

Nov. 24 Quito-Papallacta-Guango Lodge

 

Everything went smoothly traveling on Thanksgiving, the flight, the airport shuttle to the Four Points Sheraton in Quito. The next morning the breakfast buffet was remarkable with some Ecuadorian specialties in with the standard North American breakfast fare.

 

Our local Ecuadorian guide Pancho Enriquez met us in the lobby at 6:30 am. Outside we met Nestor, our driver for the next six days, and were soon off on our tour of the eastern slope of the Andes.

 

The drive would take us from 9,000 ft. in Quito to the high point of Papallacta Pass at 14,000ft in about an hour and a half. En route we stopped to do a bit of birding off the road and take some time to adjust to the increasing altitude.

 

Exiting the van at our first stop Pancho pointed out a GIANT HUMMINGBIRD buzzing by. I’ve seen one before but this was a first for my wife Laura. She found it hard to believe a bird that size could be a hummer. Soon we found more of the brilliant little flying jewels that Ecuador is known for: both BLACK and GREEN-TAILED TRAINBEARERS and a SHINING SUNBEAM. We saw our first of the ubiquitous GREAT THRUSH and BLACK-CRESTED WARBLER. Above the ridgeline a CARUNCULATED CARACARA soared over. In the brush along the roadside we had a TUFTED TIT-TYRANT, WHITE-CHINNED THISTLETAIL, BLUE and YELLOW TANAGER and both PALE and RUFOUS-NAPED BRUSH-FINCHES.

 

On our way back to Nestor’s van we crossed paths with Mitch Lysinger’s Field Guides (FG) group for the first of what would be many times.

 

Onward and upward we continued to Papallacta Pass. Along the way a flock of ANDEAN GULLS passed over. Upon reaching the pass we left the paved road behind to work some of the Polylepsis patches at treeline. ANDEAN TIT-SPINETAIL, BAR-WINGED CINCLODES, BROWN-BACKED CHAT-TYRANT, BROWN-BELLIED SWALLOW, GRASS WREN, CINEREOUS CONEBILL. The much sought after GIANT CONEBILL required some coaxing from Pancho with his iPod. Overhead we spotted two VARIABLE HAWKS.

 

Upward still we reached the radio towers above the summit of Papallacta Pass finding PLAIN-COLORED SEEDEATER and PLUMBEOUS SIERRA FINCH. Up on the top were many PARAMO GROUND TYRANTS. At 14,000 feet we were very aware of the altitude. Laura had been taking diamox but apparently not enough and was feeling poorly. Our target was the RUFOUS-BELLIED SEEDSNIPE that was seen routinely here up until recently.

 

A satellite dish was stolen from the array a few weeks prior to our visit. In response a guard was posted and unfortunately his dog came along. Pancho had never missed finding the seedsnipes until the dog showed up and counting our miss today he has not found one there in the last three visits. We find plenty of their droppings. I’m disappointed of course, this would be a new family for me, but the awesome vista from the summit makes it impossible to dwell on anything other than beauty. We even get to see the summit of Antisana volcano when it peeks out from its near constant shroud of cloud.

 

We stopped for lunch down the road from the towers and as luck would have it a TAWNY ANTPITTA popped out into the open for a splendid look after teasing us for much of the morning.

 

Our next stop was a deep lake just off the road below the pass. A short trail led to an overlook and from there we could scope the waterfowl on the water; ANDEAN TEAL, ANDEAN RUDDY DUCK, ANDEAN COOT and SILVERY GREBE. The highlight for me was the four ANDEAN CONDORS that soared overhead, three adults and a juvenile.

 

We discussed stopping at the Termas Hot Springs Resort for a soak but Laura was feeling the effects of the altitude so we opted to go directly down to Guango Lodge. Upon our arrival there she needed to lie down and felt quite sick for an a couple hours. She should have doubled her dose of diamox.

 

 I went the hummingbird feeders where I joined the FG group in snapping photos four feet from the birds. An incredible assortment of jewels included the must be seen to be believed SWORD-BILLED HUMMINGBIRD and other little gems with some great names like SPECKLED HUMMINGBIRD, PURPLE BACKED THORNBILL, WHITE-BELLIED and GORGETED WOODSTAR, COLLARED INCA, BUFF-WINGED STARFRONTLET, BUFF-TAILED and CHESTNUT-BREASTED CORONET, GLOWING PUFFLEG, TOURMALINE SUNANGEL, TYRIAN METALTAIL, MOUNTAIN VELVETBREAST and the resplendent LONG-TAILED SYLPH. WOW!With all the different hummers zooming in and out I was glad to have Pancho there to call them out as they paused briefly for a drink between dogfights.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Top: Long-tailed Sylph

 

Bottom left: White-bellied Woodstar         Bottom right: Collared Inca

 

 

Nov. 25 Guango to San Isidro Lodge

 

Pancho and I rose early for breakfast. Outside the lodge we found our first new trip bird for the day; a lovely TURQUOISE JAY. We took the trail that winds along the Papallacta river below the lodge in search of feeding flocks. Soon we came upon one that held MOUNTAIN WREN, MASKED FLOWERPIERCER, PEARLED TREERUNNER, BLACK-CAPPED HEMISPINGUS and both SLATY and CHESTNUT CAPPED BRUSH-FINCHES and SPECTACLED WHITESTART. From a vantage point above the river we found a pair of TORRENT DUCKS with a chick,  a TORRENT TYRRAUNULET and a pair of WHITE-CAPPED DIPPER.

 

Along a clearing, beneath which an oil pipeline runs underground, we found another batch of interesting birds including some noisy MOUNTAIN CACIQUES, an EMERALD TOUCANET, ANDEAN GUAN, BAR-BELLIED WOODPECKER, RUFOUS SPINETAIL, BARRED BECARD, WHITE-BANDED TYRRAUNULET. A PLAIN-BACKED HAWK streaked downstream. Also PURPLE BACKED THORNTAIL and both RUFOUS-BREASTED and SLATY-BACKED CHAT TYRANTS. We also spotted our first of at least a hundred BLACKBURNIAN WARBLERS we would see throughout the trip.

 

We then crossed the road to another trail that lead to a lovely waterfall, in this area we found our first MASKED TROGON, BLACK-EARED HEMISPINGUS, WHITE-CRESTED ELAENIA, RUSSET-CROWNED WARBLER and both CINEREUOS and BLUE-BACKED CONEBILL, BUFF-BREASTED MOUNTAIN TANAGER and GRAY-HOODED BUSH-TANAGER. Pancho called out PLUSHCAP but it got away before I could get on it unfortunately. We wrapped up the morning walk with a STRIPE-HEADED BRUSH-FINCH before heading back to the lodge for lunch. At the feeders I add one last hummer for Guango; a GLOWING PUFFLEG.

 

After lunch and a brief siesta we pack our things into Nestor’s van and head in the direction on San Isidro Lodge but before have gone very far Pancho spots a brilliant CRIMSON MANTLED WOODPECKER beside the road.

 

We took a dirt road with pastures on either side. In the roadside grasses we found some BLACK AND WHITE and CHESNUT-BELLIED SEEDEATERS. We got distracted constantly by the seemingly ever present RUFOUS-COLLARED SPARROWS, BLUE AND WHITE  and SOUTHERN ROUGH-WINGED SWALLOWS. As we cross a bridge over a creek Pancho alerts us to a RUFESCENT TIGER-HERON fishing in the shallows.

 

We found a mixed flock of tanagers in some trees on the edge of the pasture; BLUE AND BLACK, BLUE-NECKED, BLACK-CAPPED, SAFFRON-CROWNED, GOLDEN-NAPED  and BLUE-GRAY TANAGERS. Nearby is a SMOKY-BROWN WOODPECKER and we heard only some YELLOW-BILLED CACIQUES in a bamboo thicket. While we’re birding a woman comes out of a nearby house and approaches us. She speaks English and wants to know where we’re from. She tells us she went to college in northern Massachussets and welcomes us to her country. This interaction exemplifies the Ecuadorians, everyone we’ve met from the officer directing the lines at customs to this woman have made us feel very welcome.

 

We pull into the gates of San Isidro Lodge where we are welcomed by Carmen Bustamante, the proprietess, and groups of INCA JAY, SUBTROPICAL CACIQUE and RUSSET-BACK OROPENDOLA. We settle into our cabin and then relax over beers in the Mirador Lounge with its awesome view. At the hummingbird feeders we add SPARKLING  and GREEN VIOLETEAR to our trip list. Pancho came in with his scope and pointed out a WATTLED GUAN in a tree top along the ridgeline. These are one of the specialties at San Isidro and at this time of year we heard their cat like calls often.

 

Dinner proves that everything we’ve heard about eating at San Isidro is true. Every single meal we had there was excellent (that coming from a bona fide foodie).

 

Nov. 26 San Isidro

 

Well, it had to happen eventually. Given that we are birding in the cloudforest the rain comes as no surprise this morning. After a sumptuous breakfast we bird around the lodge while waiting for our appointment with the local antpittas.

 

PALE-EDGED FLYCATCHER on the wire, CANADA WARBLER, BLACK-BILLED PEPPERSHRIKE, SOCIAL FLYCATCHER and of course TROPICAL KINGBIRD.

At 7am we met one of the workers from San Isidro who we followed a short distance down one of the trails. He had a small bucket of meal worms and imitated the call of a CHESTNUT-CROWNED ANTPITTA. Within a few minutes the bird appeared and allowed me to take photos using the flash. That done we headed a short distance to another trail, repeated the scenario and a WHITE-BELLIED ANTPITTA appeared for another photo opportunity.

 

 

Chestnut-crowned Antpitta

 

 

The feeding of these typically secretive species is the latest thing for birders in Ecuador. Pioneered by Angel Paz on the western slope about a year ago.

 

The rain relented so we walked back up the road toward the highway birding along the way and saw CINNAMON FLYCATCHER, ASHY-HEADED  and WHITE-TAILED TYRAUNNULET, RUFOUS-BREASTED FLYCATCHER, SMOKE-COLORED PEWEE, GRAY-BREASTED WOOD-WREN, BLACK-BILLED THRUSH, SLATE-THROATED WHITESTART, WESTERN WOOD PEEWEE, LINEATED WOODPECKER and COMMON BUSH-TANAGER. The rain returned with a vengeance as we walked back to the lodge. Glad we brought those umbrellas!

 

After lunch we took a brief siesta while Pancho and Nestor went into the nearby town of Cosanga to get their election vouchers for the presidential election. If they failed to show up for the election they would subsequently be unable to get a driver’s license, register a car or open a bank account in Ecuador.

 

Mid afternoon we took the van to a different locale a half hour away from the lodge. We started near a river where we found a SPOTTED SANDPIPER. In the past this was a good spot for mountain toucans but no luck today. Pancho and I walked the road and Nestor caught up in the van so we only needed to walk one way. The clouds gave way and it turned out to be a pleasant afternoon and a birdy one too.

 

Sorting through the numerous BLACKBURNIAN WARBLERS we found a striking GREEN AND BLACK FRUITEATER, BLUISH FLOWERPIERCER, SUMMER and BERYL SPANGLED TANAGER, and both OLIVE-BACKED and MONTANE WOODCREEPER and a LONG-TAILED ANTBIRD.

 

When a flock of parrots flew in Pancho found them in the treetops and pointed with his laser the WHITE-CAPPED PARROTS, we also saw some RED-BILLED PARROTS flying about. In the fading light we headed back to the lodge finding a flock of SOUTHERN LAPWINGS, another BROAD-WINGED HAWK and a HIGHLAND MOTMOT.

 

At dinner time, just as our plates are served, one of the Ecuadorian guides working with the FG group bursts in the door. “El Buho”, he announces. The Owl,” Pancho translates and the dining room clears. Everyone heads just up the hill from the lodge and there on the wire is the infamous San Isidro Owl of a species yet to b“e determined. El Buho, another great meal and some fine Chilean wine was a great way to end that day.

 

 

Nov. 27 Loreto Road

 

We were up at 4:15 trying to be quiet. The walls between our room and the adjoining one are thin. We can hear our neighbors breathing next door. The hardwood floors squeak in such a way that it is impossible to be silent. In that they too are birders I’m sure they understood.

 

We needed to get underway early to arrive at our destination at first light. Our destination was to what Pancho described with an ample amount of sarcasm as, “the best road in all of Ecuador.”

 

It was raining as we began the three and a half hour drive, and it didn’t take long to see what Pancho was talking about. The further we got the more the roadway deteriorated. Nestor’s van is not a four wheel drive but neither are the buses we encounter coming from either direction. It was nice having a driver that knew this road! With only 6 days to bird the area we did not waste any time trying to find our way thanks to Nestor and Pancho.

 

We stopped for breakfast at a bridge crossing, the rain stopped briefly and we began birding before finishing our meal; DARK-BREASTED SPINETAIL, VARIEGATED BRISTLE-TYRANT, GREAT KISKADEE, GRAYISH SALTATOR, LESSER SEEDEATER, COMMON TODY-FLYCATCHER, YELLLOW-THROATED BUSH-TANAGER, SILVER-BEAKED TANAGER and OLIVACEOUS SISKIN.

 

Our mode that morning was to walk a stretch of the “road” and stop now and then to look over the edge where we could look down on the canopy and this way we found both RUDDY and SCALED PIGEON. Nestor followed in the van with the scope when we needed it. It just wouldn’t stop raining there in the rainforest, who’d of thunk it?

We got curious looks from the buses that managed to skirt the numerous potholes, landslides and washouts without crashing into oncoming trucks and other buses. Fortunately there weren’t too many vehicles on the road.

 

We walked a ways without seeing much and then we came upon a flock of what were perhaps the most striking of all the birds we saw; PARADISE TANAGERS! Then GREEN and GOLD, YELLOW-BELLIED, BAY-HEADED and SPOTTED TANAGERS, we were having fun!

 

And then it began to rain in earnest. Further up the road we waited out the rain in the van and then under the corrugated tin roof of a bus stop with an awesome view of the surrounding jungle.

 

We turned around and started heading back when the rains let up. We stopped near a small farm on the roadside to bird the edge of the clearing; WHITE-BANDED TYRAUNNULET, MASKED TITYRA, TAWNY-CROWNED GREENLET,ORANGE-BELLIED EUPHONIA, GRAYISH SALTATOR, OLIVACEOUS PICULET and PALM, SCARLET, WHITE-SHOULDERED, GOLDEN and GOLDEN-EARED TANAGERS. Pancho heard a toucan, pulled out his scope and located the CHANNEL-BILLED TOUCAN. That very productive spot is across the bridge, around the bend, and up the hill from our lunch stop at the Comedor Susanita.

 

On the way back to the lodge I spotted a CLIFF FLYCATCHER atop a dead snag. When we arrived at the blessedly paved road near the trailhead for Guacamyos Ridge Mitch’s FG group was assembled and looking up. We pulled over to see a ORANGE-BREASTED FALCON perched right out in the open. Pancho got out his scope and I got some pretty nice digiscope images.

 

Pancho told us over dinner that he considered the day’s birding on Loreto Rd. as pretty slow and unrepresentative of how it usually is. Too much rain perhaps.

 

 

Orange-breasted Falcon

 

 

 

 

Nov. 28  Guacamyos Ridge

 

We caught an early breakfast at the lodge so we could be at the ridge at first light. Not a cloud in the sky that morning. From the ridge we had a view looking over the lowlands of

 

 

the Amazon basin and to the other side the Sumaco volcano. After paying our park entrance fee at the radio towers we hit the trail and immediately started finding new birds; SEPIA-BROWN WREN, GRASS GREEN TANAGER, HOODED and BLUE-WINGED MOUNTAIN TANAGER. Further along the trail we added RUFOUS-CROWNED TODY-FLYCATCHER, BLACK and WHITE BECARD, TAWNY BELLIED HERMIT, DUSKY PIHA and right beside the trail a SLATE-CROWNED ANTPITTA popped out for us. We were back to the lodge for lunch.

 

After a short siesta we headed back into the field in the late afternoon. We drove a short ways from the lodge and then followed a dirt road beside a stream to a cleared pasture where we found some new and much sought after birds; CRESTED and GOLDEN-HEADED QUETZAL, STREAKED TUFTEDCHEEK and assorted tanagers I’ve already mentioned. A new one  flies in to respond to Pancho’s imitation of its call, a lovely but noisy WHITE-CAPPED TANAGER!

 

We headed back to the main road and to a spot where one goes around dusk to see the dramatic LYRE-TAILED NIGHTJAR. We heard the bird and saw some eyeshine and then a male flew over our heads and we got a light on it. Fantastic, long tail!

 

Nov. 29 San Isidro Lodge to Quito

 

Our last day we birded the trails around the lodge where there is an extensive system but the birding there proved to be difficult. This was typical rainforest birding with a dense canopy and understory. We heard a few different tapaculos that were unresponsive to Pancho’s playback. We poked through a lot of mud without seeing much. There was a very frustrating moment when we heard a BLACK and CHESTNUT EAGLE screaming over our heads but we were unable to find a window in the canopy to see it. We did see some SICKLE-WINGED GUANS and stirred up several WATTLED GUANS up in the tree tops but not much else.

 

Before hitting the trails we found some nice birds just outside of the dining hall; ANDEAN SOLITAIRE and PALE-EYED THRUSH and the CHESTNUT-CROWNED ANTPITTA was on the shortcut trail to the dining room every time we went by.

 

After lunch we bid the lodge manager Rowan and her family goodbye and started back toward Quito. We stopped at Papallacta Pass again where we were greeting by the dog. Pancho and I gave the Rufous-bellied Seedsnipe another try but no luck. At one point we look up the mountainside and there is the dog wagging his tail at us.

 

“Stupid dog,” Pancho says. I concur.

 

Nestor navigated the rush hour traffic deftly and upon arriving back at the Four Points Sheraton we bid our new friends Pancho and Nestor goodbye. Tomorrow we would begin the second half of our trip to the Galapagos Islands.

 

Misc. Info.

 

Lodging:

We were both quite pleased with our accommodations at San Isidro and Guango Lodges and highly recommend them both. As I mentioned the food is fantastic! The Four Points Sheraton was reasonably priced and very nice and it has a shuttle service from the airport which is about ten minutes away. Breakfast was included and it was quite a spread.

 

Guide:

Pancho Enriquez is an outstanding guide, speaks English fluently and is very patient and fun to be around both in the field and at the dinner table. Through him we learned a great deal about both natural history and Ecuador itself. He is a native Quiteno. After working for eco-lodges for the last 13 years he has set out on his own and formed Aves Tours of Ecuador and Peru. I highly recommend his guiding service. http://www.avestours.net

 

Costs: We spent $1150 each, all inclusive (save for beverages and airfare,) for our six day tour. In that we had a short visit to the mainland I thought it was worthwhile to have a guide and driver who knew their way around thus avoiding getting lost or having to stop and ask for directions. Also there were times I would have missed a lot of the birds in mixed flocks trying to look them up in the field guide whereas Pancho knew them right away. Nestor was a very good driver and we enjoyed his company immensely. He made sure my Spanish was correct and when my wife chose not to go birding he looked after her. It was an excellent way to learn about Ecuador and we felt that in employing Ecuadorians we were contributing to the local economy through ecotourism and rewarding local conservation projects that preserve habitats.

 

More photos can be viewed at http://www.rwolfe.photosite.com/EcuadorEastSlope/

 

Species seen:

           

         

                         Podicipedidae

                           Silvery Grebe                                Podiceps occipitalis

                         Anatidae

                           Torrent Duck                             Merganetta armata

                        Andean Teal                              Anas andium

                        Andean Ruddy Duck                 Oxyura ferruginea                                                                                                            

                           Ardea

 

                       Fasciated Tiger-Heron                    Tigrisoma fasciatum

                         Cathartidae

                           Andean Condor                           Vultur gryphus

                         Accipitridae

                           Plain-breasted Hawk                   Accipiter ventralis

                           Red-backed Hawk                       Buteo polyosoma

                         Falconidae

                           Carunculated Caracara              Phalcoboenus carunculatus

                           American Kestrel                         Falco sparverius

                           Orange-breasted Falcon            Falco deiroleucus

                         Cracidae

                           Andean Guan                              Penelope montagnii

                           Wattled Guan                               Aburria aburri

                           Sickle-winged Guan                   Chamaepetes goudotii

                         Scolopacidae

                           Greater Yellowlegs                      Tringa melanoleuca

                           Solitary Sandpiper                       Tringa solitaria

                         Charadriidae

                           Southern Lapwing                       Vanellus chilensis

                         Laridae

                           Andean Gull                                 Larus serranus

                         Columbidae

                           Scaled Pigeon                              Columba speciosa

                           Ruddy Pigeon                              Columba subvinacea

                           Eared Dove                                   Zenaida auriculata

                         Psittacidae

                           Blue-headed Parrot                     Pionus menstruus

                           Red-billed Parrot                       Pionus sordidus

                        White-capped Parrot                      Pionus senilloides

                         Coccyzidae

                           Squirrel Cuckoo                           Piaya cayana

                         Crotophagidae

                           Smooth-billed Ani                        Crotophaga ani

                         Strigidae

                           Great Horned Owl                     Bubo virginianus

                         San Isidro Owl                                Strix ?

                         Caprimulgidae

                           Lyre-tailed Nightjar                      Uropsalis lyra

                         Apodidae

                           Chestnut-collared Swift              Streptoprocne rutila

                           White-collared Swift                    Streptoprocne zonaris

                           Gray-rumped Swift                      Chaetura cinereiventris

                         Trochilidae

                           Tawny-bellied Hermit                  Phaethornis syrmatophorus

                           Green Violet-ear                           Colibri thalassinus

                           Sparkling Violet-ear                     Colibri coruscans

                           Speckled Hummingbird             Adelomyia melanogenys

                           Violet-fronted Brilliant                 Heliodoxa leadbeateri

                           Giant Hummingbird                    Patagona gigas

                           Shining Sunbeam                       Aglaeactis cupripennis

                           Mountain Velvetbreast                Lafresnaya lafresnayi

                           Bronzy Inca                                   Coeligena coeligena

                           Collared Inca                                Coeligena torquata

                           Buff-winged Starfrontlet             Coeligena lutetiae

                           Sword-billed Hummingbird        Ensifera ensifera

                           Buff-tailed Coronet                      Boissonneaua flavescens

                           Chestnut-breasted Coronet       Boissonneaua matthewsii

                           Tourmaline Sunangel                Heliangelus exortis

                           Glowing Puffleg                           Eriocnemis vestitus

                           Black-tailed Trainbearer             Lesbia victoriae

                           Green-tailed Trainbearer            Lesbia nuna

                           Purple-backed Thornbill             Ramphomicron microrhynchum

                           Tyrian Metaltail                             Metallura tyrianthina

                           Long-tailed Sylph                        Aglaiocercus kingi

                           White-bellied Woodstar              Acestrura mulsant

                           Gorgeted Woodstar                   Acestrura heliodor

                        White-tailed Hillstar                        Urochroa bougueri

                         Trogonidae

                           Crested Quetzal                           Pharomachrus antisianus

                           Golden-headed Quetzal             Pharomachrus auriceps

                           Masked Trogon                            Trogon personatus

                         Meropidae

                           Highland Motmot                         Momotus aequatorialis

                         Ramphastidae

                           Emerald Toucanet                     Aulacorhynchus prasinus

                        Channel-billed Toucan                 Ramphhastos vitellinus

                         Picidae

                           Olivaceous Piculet                      Picumnus olivaceus

                           Bar-bellied Woodpecker             Veniliornis nigriceps

                           Smoky-brown Woodpecker        Veniliornis fumigatus

                           Crimson-mantled Woodpecker Piculus rivolii

                         Dendrocolaptidae

                           Lineated Woodcreeper               Lepidocolaptes albolineatus

                         Furnariidae

                           Bar-winged Cinclodes                Cinclodes fuscus

                           Stout-billed Cinclodes                Cinclodes excelsior

                           Andean Tit-Spinetail                   Leptasthenura andicola

                           Dark-breasted Spinetail              Synallaxis albigularis

                           Rufous Spinetail                          Synallaxis unirufa

                           Many-striped Canastero             Asthenes flammulata

                           Pearled Treerunner                     Margarornis squamiger

                           Streaked Tuftedcheek                 Pseudocolaptes boissonneautii

                           Montane Foliage-gleaner           Anabacerthia striaticollis

                         Thamnophilidae

                           Long-tailed Antbird                      Drymophila caudata

                         Formicariidae

                           Chestnut-crowned Antpitta        Grallaria ruficapilla

                           White-bellied Antpitta                  Grallaria hypoleuca

                           Tawny Antpitta                             Grallaria quitensis

                           Slate-crowned Antpitta               Grallaricula nana

                         Cotingidae

                           Green-and-black Fruiteater        Pipreola riefferii

                           Dusky Piha                                   Lipaugus fuscocinereus

                         Tyrannidae

                           Streak-necked Flycatcher          Mionectes striaticollis

                           Olive-striped Flycatcher              Mionectes olivaceus

                           Rufous-breasted Flycatcher      Leptopogon rufipectus

                           Rufous-crowned Tody-Tyrant    Poecilotriccus ruficeps

                        Rufous-breasted Flycatcher       Leptogogon ruficepectus     

                           White-crested Elaenia                Elaenia albiceps

                           White-tailed Tyrannulet              Mecocerculus poecilocercus

                           White-banded Tyrannulet          Mecocerculus stictopterus

                           Torrent Tyrannulet                      Serpophaga cinerea

                         Ashy-headed Tyrraunulet           Phyllomias cinereiceps

                         Golden-faced Tyrraunulet          Zimmerius chrysops 

                           Tufted Tit-Tyrant                           Anairetes parulus

                           Cinnamon Flycatcher                 Pyrrhomyias cinnamomea

                           Cliff Flycatcher                             Hirundinea ferruginea

                           Olive-sided Flycatcher                Contopus cooperi

                           Smoke-colored Pewee               Contopus fumigatus

                           Western Wood-Pewee               Contopus sordidulus

                         Variegated Bristle-Tyrant          Pognotriccus poecilotis          

                           Slaty-backed Chat-Tyrant           Ochthoeca cinnamomeiventris

                           Rufous-breasted Chat-Tyrant    Ochthoeca rufipectoralis

                           Brown-backed Chat-Tyrant        Ochthoeca fumicolor

                           Plain-capped Ground-Tyrant     Muscisaxicola alpina

                           Pale-edged Flycatcher                Myiarchus cephalotes

                           Tropical Kingbird                          Tyrannus melancholicus

                           Social Flycatcher                         Myiozetetes similis

                           Great Kiskadee                             Pitangus sulphuratus

                           Barred Becard                              Pachyramphus versicolor

                           Black-and-white Becard             Pachyramphus albogriseus

                           Masked Tityra                               Tityra semifasciata

                         Corvidae

                           Turquoise Jay                               Cyanolyca turcosa

                           Inca Jay                                         Cyanocorax luxuosus

                         Vireonidae

                           Black-billed Peppershrike          Cyclarhis nigrirostris

                           Red-eyed Vireo                            Vireo olivaceus

                           Tawny-crowned Greenlet           Hylophilus ochraceiceps

                         Turdidae

                           Andean Solitaire                          Myadestes ralloides

                           Swainson's Thrush                     Catharus ustulatus

                           Pale-eyed Thrush                        Platycichla leucops

                           Great Thrush                                Turdus fuscater

                           Black-billed Thrush                     Turdus ignobilis

                         Troglodytidae

                           Sepia-brown Wren                      Cinnycerthia peruana

                           Sedge Wren                                  Cistothorus platensis

                           Mountain Wren                            Troglodytes solstitialis

                           Gray-breasted Wood-Wren        Henicorhina leucophrys

                         Hirundinidae

                           Southern Rough-winged Swallow        Stelgidopteryx ruficollis

                         Fringillidae

                           Olivaceous Siskin                        Carduelis olivacea

                         Parulidae

                           Tropical Parula                             Parula pitiayumi

                           Blackburnian Warbler                 Dendroica fusca

                           Canada Warbler                           Wilsonia canadensis

                           Black-crested Warbler                 Basileuterus nigrocristatus

                           Russet-crowned Warbler            Basileuterus coronatus

                         Emberizidae

                           Rufous-collared Sparrow           Zonotrichia capensis

                           Pale-naped Brush-Finch           Atlapetes pallidinucha

                           Rufous-naped Brush-Finch      Atlapetes rufinucha

                           Slaty Brush-Finch                       Atlapetes schistaceus

                           Chestnut-capped Brush-Finch Buarremon brunneinucha

                           Stripe-headed Brush-Finch       Buarremon torquatus

                           Bananaquit                                   Coereba flaveola

                           Cinereous Conebill                     Conirostrum cinereum

                           Blue-backed Conebill                 Conirostrum sitticolor

                           Capped Conebill                          Conirostrum albifrons

                           Giant Conebill                              Oreomanes fraseri

                           Black-faced Tanager                   Schistochlamys melanopis

                           Grass-green Tanager                  Chlorornis riefferii

                           White-capped Tanager               Sericossypha albocristata

                           Common Bush-Tanager            Chlorospingus ophthalmicus

                           Yellow-throated Bush-Tanager Chlorospingus flavigularis

                           Gray-hooded Bush-Tanager      Cnemoscopus rubrirostris

                           Black-capped Hemispingus      Hemispingus atropileus

                           Black-eared Hemispingus         Hemispingus melanotis

                           White-shouldered Tanager        Tachyphonus luctuosus

                           Summer Tanager                        Piranga rubra

                           Scarlet Tanager                            Piranga olivacea

                           Silver-beaked Tanager               Ramphocelus carbo

                           Blue-gray Tanager                       Thraupis episcopus

                           Palm Tanager                               Thraupis palmarum

                           Hooded Mountain-Tanager       Buthraupis montana

                           Blue-winged Mountain-Tanager            Anisognathus somptuosus

                           Buff-breasted Mountain-Tanager          Dubusia taeniata

                           Fawn-breasted Tanager             Pipraeidea melanonota

                           Golden-rumped Euphonia         Euphonia cyanocephala

                           Orange-bellied Euphonia          Euphonia xanthogaster

                           Paradise Tanager                        Tangara chilensis

                           Green-and-gold Tanager            Tangara schrankii

                           Golden Tanager                           Tangara arthus

                           Saffron-crowned Tanager          Tangara xanthocephala

                           Golden-eared Tanager               Tangara chrysotis

                           Yellow-bellied Tanager               Tangara xanthogastra

                           Spotted Tanager                          Tangara punctata

                           Bay-headed Tanager                  Tangara gyrola

                           Golden-naped Tanager              Tangara ruficervix

                           Blue-necked Tanager                 Tangara cyanicollis

                           Beryl-spangled Tanager             Tangara nigroviridis

                           Blue-and-black Tanager             Tangara vassorii

                           Black-capped Tanager                Tangara heinei

                           Swallow Tanager                         Tersina viridis

                           Plumbeous Sierra-Finch            Phrygilus unicolor

                           Black-and-white Seedeater       Sporophila luctuosa

                           Chestnut-bellied Seedeater       Sporophila castaneiventris

                           Plain-colored Seedeater             Catamenia inornata

                         Lesser Seedfinch                       Oryzoborus angolensis          

                           Bluish Flower-piercer                  Diglossopis caerulescens

                           Masked Flower-piercer               Diglossopis cyanea

                           Grayish Saltator                           Saltator coerulescens

                         Icteridae

                           Russet-backed Oropendola       Psarocolius angustifrons

                           Scarlet-rumped Cacique            Cacicus uropygialis

                           Mountain Cacique                       Cacicus chrysonotus

                           Yellow-billed Cacique                 Amblycercus holosericeus

 

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