The Birds of Southwest Ecuador

by Paul Coopmans, John V. Moore, Niels Krabbe, Olaf Jahn, Karl S. Berg, Mitch Lysinger, Lelis Navarrete and Robert S. Ridgely

Features almost 1000 separate vocalizations from 235 species found in Southwestern Ecuador. The habitats covered are diverse and range from desert, desert scrub and dry forest to humid forest, and also include lakes, marshes, salt ponds, sandy beaches, and mangroves. A large number of species and subspecies confined to the important "Tumbesian Endemic Area" are featured. Includes: Pinnated Bittern; Pearl Kite; Rufous-necked Wood-Rail; Croaking Ground-Dove; Gray-capped Cuckoo; Anthony's Nightjar; Ecuadorian Piculet; Blackish-headed, Necklaced, and Line-cheeked Spinetail; Rufous-necked and Henna-hooded Foliage-gleaner; Collared and Chapman's Antshrike; Jet and Gray-headed Antbird; Watkins's and Rusty-breasted Antpitta; Elegant Creascentchest; Pale-headed Brush-Finch, Tumbes and Black-capped Sparrow; Tumbesian and Gray-and-White Tyrannulet; Tumbes Pewee; Short-billed Field-Tyrant; Sooty-crowned and Baird's Flycatcher; Black-and-white Tanager; Black-cowled Saltator; Crimson-breasted Finch; Parrot-billed Seedeater; Collared Warbling-Finch; White-edged Oriole; Saffron Siskin and many others.

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Species list:

• Pale-browed Tinamou Crypturellus transfasciatus
• Andean Tinamou Nothoprocta pentlandii
• Neotropic Cormorant Phalacrocorax brasilianus
• Anhinga Anhinga anhinga
• Cocoi Heron Ardea cocoi
• Great Egret Ardea alba
• Tricolored Heron Egretta tricolor
• Little Blue Heron Egretta caerulea
• Snowy Egret Egretta thula
• Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis
• Striated Heron Butorides striatus
• Black-crowned Night-Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
• Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Nyctanassa violacea
• Least Bittern Ixobrychus exilis
• Pinnated Bittern Botaurus pinnatus
• White Ibis Eudocimus albus
• Chilean Flamingo Phoenicopterus chilensis
• Horned Screamer Anhima cornuta
• Fulvous Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna bicolor
• Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna autumnalis
• Comb Duck Sarkidiornis melanotos
• White-cheeked Pintail Anas bahamensis
• Blue-winged Teal Anas discors
• Osprey Pandion haliaetus
• Hook-billed Kite Chondrohierax uncinatus
• Pearl Kite Gampsonyx swainsonii
• Snail Kite Rostrhamus sociabilis
• Gray-backed Hawk Leucopternis occidentalis
• Common (Mangrove) Black-Hawk Buteogallus anthracinus
• Great Black-Hawk Buteogallus urubitinga
• Savanna Hawk Buteogallus meridionalis
• Harris's Hawk Parabuteo unicinctus
• Gray Hawk Buteo nitidus
• Short-tailed Hawk Buteo brachyurus
• Variable (Red-backed) Hawk Buteo polyosoma
• Northern Crested-Caracara Caracara cheriway
• American Kestrel Falco sparverius
• Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
• Rufous-headed Chachalaca Ortalis erythroptera
• Rufous-fronted Wood-Quail Odontophorus erythrops
• Limpkin Aramus guarauna
• White-throated Crake Laterallus albigularis
• Gray-breasted Crake Laterallus exilis
• Clapper Rail Rallus longirostris
• Rufous-necked Wood-Rail Aramides axillaris
• Plumbeous Rail Pardirallus sanguinolentus
• Purple Gallinule Porphyrio martinica
• Common Gallinule Gallinula chloropus
• Wattled Jacana Jacana jacana
• American Oystercatcher Haematopus palliatus
• Black-necked Stilt Himantopus mexicanus
• Peruvian Thick-knee Burhinus superciliaris
• American Golden Plover Pluvialis dominica
• Gray Plover Pluvialis squatarola
• Semipalmated Plover Charadrius semipalmatus
• Wilson's Plover Charadrius wilsonia
• Killdeer Charadrius vociferus
• Snowy Plover Charadrius alexandrinus
• Collared Plover Charadrius collaris
• Short-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus griseus
• Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
• Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca
• Lesser Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes
• Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularia
• Willet Catoptrophorus semipalmatus
• Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
• Sanderling Calidris alba
• Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla
• Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla
• Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
• Stilt Sandpiper Calidris himantopus
• Kelp Gull Larus dominicanus
• Gray-hooded Gull Larus cirrocephalus
• Laughing Gull Larus atricilla
• Franklin's Gull Larus pipixcan
• Gull-billed Tern Sterna nilotica
• Sandwich Tern Sterna sandvicensis
• Royal Tern Sterna maxima
• Pale-vented Pigeon Columba cayennensis
• Eared Dove Zenaida auriculata
• West Peruvian Dove Zenaida meloda
• Plain-breasted Ground-Dove Columbina minuta
• Ecuadorian Ground-Dove Columbina buckleyi
• Croaking Ground-Dove Columbina cruziana
• Blue Ground-Dove Claravis pretiosa
• White-tipped Dove Leptotila verreauxi
• Ochre-bellied Dove Leptotila ochraceiventris
• Great Green Macaw Ara ambigua
• Red-masked Parakeet Aratinga erythrogenys
• El Oro Parakeet Pyrrhura orcesi
• Pacific Parrotlet Forpus coelestis
• Gray-cheeked Parakeet Brotogeris pyrrhopterus
• Red-lored Amazon Amazona autumnalis
• Gray-capped Cuckoo Coccyzus lansbergi
• Smooth-billed Ani Crotophaga ani
• Groove-billed Ani Crotophaga sulcirostris
• Striped Cuckoo Tapera naevia
• West Peruvian Screech-Owl Otus roboratus
• Pacific Pygmy-Owl Glaucidium peruanum
• Burrowing Owl Speotyto cunicularia
• Striped Owl Asio clamator
• Common Potoo Nyctibius griseus
• Lesser Nighthawk Chordeiles acutipennis
• Anthony's Nightjar Caprimulgus anthonyi
• Tumbes Swift Chaetura ocypetes
• Baron's Hermit Phaethornis baroni
• Emerald-bellied Woodnymph Thalurania hypochlora
• Tumbes Hummingbird Leucippus baeri
• Loja Hummingbird Amazilia amazilia alticola
• Amazilia Hummingbird Amazilia amazilia amazilia
• White-vented Plumeleteer Chalybura buffonii
• Long-billed Starthroat Heliomaster longirostris
• Short-tailed Woodstar Myrmia micrura
• Little Woodstar Acestrura bombus
• Northern Violaceous Trogon Trogon caligatus
• Ecuadorian Trogon Trogon mesurus
• Ringed Kingfisher Ceryle torquata
• Green Kingfisher Chloroceryle americana
• Blue-crowned Motmot Momotus momota
• Ecuadorian Piculet Picumnus sclateri
• Scarlet-backed Woodpecker Veniliornis callonotus
• Smoky-brown Woodpecker Veniliornis fumigatus
• Pacific Hornero Furnarius cinnamomeus
• Slaty Spinetail Synallaxis brachyura (erratum: recording #4 was recorded near Piñas in El Oro, not along the Rio Ayampe on the Guayas/Manabi border)
• Blackish-headed Spinetail Synallaxis tithys
• Necklaced Spinetail Synallaxis stictothorax
• Line-cheeked Spinetail Cranioleuca antisiensis
• Streaked Xenops Xenops rutilans
• Rufous-necked Foliage-gleaner Syndactyla ruficollis
• Henna-hooded Foliage-gleaner Hylocryptus erythrocephalus
• Olivaceous Woodcreeper Sittasomus griseicapillus
• Streak-headed Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes souleyetii
• Red-billed Scythebill Campylorhamphus trochilirostris
• Collared Antshrike (piurae) Sakesphorus bernardi
• Collared Antshrike (bernardi) Sakesphorus bernardi
• Chapman's Antshrike Thamnophilus zarumae
• Plain Antvireo Dysithamnus mentalis
• Jet Antbird Cercomacra nigricans
• White-backed Fire-Eye Pyriglena leuconota
• Gray-headed Antbird Myrmeciza griseiceps
• Watkins's Antpitta Grallaria watkinsi
• Rusty-breasted Antpitta Grallaricula ferrugineipectus
• Elegant Crescentchest Melanopareia elegans
• Ecuadorian (El Oro) Tapaculo Scytalopus robbinsi
• Southern Beardless-Tyrannulet Camptostoma obsoletum
• Tumbesian Tyrannulet Phaeomyias tumbezana
• Yellow Tyrannulet Capsiempis flaveola
• Pacific Elaenia Myiopagis subplacens
• Greenish Elaenia Myiopagis viridicata
• Gray-and-white Tyrannulet Pseudelaenia leucospodia
• Yellow-bellied Elaenia Elaenia flavogaster
• Sooty-headed Tyrannulet Phyllomyias griseiceps
• Loja Tyrannulet Zimmerius flavidifrons
• Rufous-winged Tyrannulet Mecocerculus calopterus
• Tawny-crowned Pygmy-Tyrant Euscarthmus meloryphus
• Common Tody-Flycatcher Todirostrum cinereum
• Yellow-olive Flatbill Tolmomyias sulphurescens
• Pacific Royal-Flycatcher Onychorhynchus coronatus
• Bran-colored Flycatcher Myiophobus fasciatus
• Gray-breasted Flycatcher Lathrotriccus griseipectus
• Tumbes Pewee Contopus punensis
• Vermilion Flycatcher Pyrocephalus rubinus
• Short-tailed Field-Tyrant Muscigralla brevicauda
• Masked Water-Tyrant Fluvicola nengeta
• Ochraceous Attila Attila torridus
• Dusky-capped Flycatcher Myiarchus tuberculifer
• Sooty-crowned Flycatcher Myiarchus phaeocephalus
• Boat-billed Flycatcher Megarynchus pitangua
• Social Flycatcher Myiozetetes similis
• Baird's Flycatcher Myiodynastes bairdii
• Streaked Flycatcher Myiodynastes maculatus
• Snowy-throated Kingbird Tyrannus niveigularis
• Black-and-white Becard Pachyramphus albogriseus (erratum: recording #1 was made near Piñas in El Oro, not along the Rio Ayampe on the Guayas/Manabi border)
• Slaty Becard Pachyramphus spodiurus
• One-colored Becard Pachyramphus homochrous
• Gray-breasted Martin Progne chalybea
• Tumbes Swallow Tachycineta stolzmanni
• Chestnut-collared Swallow Hirundo rufocollaris
• Fasciated Wren Campylorhynchus fasciatus
• Speckle-breasted Wren Thryothorus sclateri
• Superciliated Wren Thryothorus superciliaris
• House Wren Troglodytes aedon "lumped"
• Gray-breasted Wood-Wren Henicorhina leucophrys
• Long-tailed Mockingbird Mimus longicaudatus
• Andean Slaty-Thrush Turdus nigriceps
• Plumbeous-backed Thrush Turdus reevei
• Ecuadorian Thrush Turdus maculirostris
• Long-billed Gnatwren Ramphocaenus melanurus
• Tropical Gnatcatcher Polioptila plumbea
• White-tailed Jay Cyanocorax mystacalis
• House Sparrow Passer domesticus
• Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus
• Rufous-browed Peppershrike Cyclarhis gujanensis
• Saffron Siskin Carduelis siemiradzkii
• Tropical Parula Parula pitiayumi
• Mangrove Warbler Dendroica erithachorides
• Olive-crowned Yellowthroat Geothlypis semiflava
• Black-lored Yellowthroat Geothlypis auricularis
• Gray-and-gold Warbler (fraseri) Basileuterus fraseri
• Gray-and-gold Warbler (ochraceicrista) Basileuterus fraseri
• Three-banded Warbler Basileuterus trifasciatus
• Black-and-white Tanager Conothraupis speculigera
• Ashy-throated Bush-Tanager Chlorospingus canigularis
• Highland Hepatic-Tanager Piranga lutea
• Blue-gray Tanager Thraupis episcopus
• Thick-billed Euphonia Euphonia laniirostris
• Silver-backed Tanager Tangara viridicollis
• Crimson-breasted Finch Rhodospingus cruentus
• Band-tailed Sierra-Finch Phrygilus alaudinus
• Cinereous Finch Piezorhina cinerea
• Collared Warbling-Finch Poospiza hispaniolensis
• Blue-black Grassquit Volatinia jacarina
• Drab Seedeater Sporophila simplex
• Parrot-billed Seedeater Sporophila peruviana
• Chestnut-throated Seedeater Sporophila telasco
• Large-billed Seed-Finch Oryzoborus crassirostris
• Dull-colored Grassquit Tiaris obscura
• Saffron Finch Sicalis flaveola
• Sulphur-throated Finch Sicalis taczanowskii
• Bay-crowned Brush-Finch Atlapetes seebohmi
• White-winged Brush-Finch Atlapetes leucopterus
• White-headed Brush-Finch Atlapetes albiceps
• Pale-headed Brush-Finch Atlapetes pallidiceps
• Orange-billed Sparrow Arremon aurantiirostris
• Black-capped Sparrow Arremon abeillei
• Tumbes Sparrow Aimophila stolzmanni
• Streaked Saltator Saltator striatipectus
• Black-cowled Saltator Saltator nigriceps
• Southern Yellow-Grosbeak Pheucticus chrysogaster
• Peruvian Meadowlark Sturnella bellicosa
• Scrub Blackbird Dives warszewiczi
• Great-tailed Grackle Quiscalus mexicanus
• Shiny Cowbird Molothrus bonariensis
• Yellow-tailed Oriole Icterus mesomelas
• White-edged Oriole Icterus graceannae
• Yellow-rumped Cacique Cacicus cela

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