Northern Ecuador Bird List

During trips in the last several years, we've seen a cumulative total of over 400 species on this Northern Ecuador route, with most trips averaging about 250 - 300 seen species. This list includes species seen on those trips. As usual, some are common, some less common, and some quite rare. I have not included some species that are widespread and fairly common throughout the neotropics.

  • Torrent Duck

  • Yellow-billed Pintail

  • Andean Teal

  • Andean Duck

  • Andean Guan

  • Crested Guan

  • Sickle-winged Guan

  • Rufous-fronted Wood-quail

  • Dark-backed Wood-quail

  • Silvery Grebe

  • Fasciated Tiger-heron

  • Andean Condor

  • Swallow-tailed Kite

  • Cinereous Harrier

  • Sharp-shinned (Plain-breasted) Hawk

  • Gray-bellied Hawk

  • Barred Hawk

  • Black-chested Buzzard-eagle

  • Variable Hawk

  • Black Hawk-eagle

  • Black-and-chestnut Eagle

  • Carunculated Caracara

  • Laughing Falcon

  • Aplomado Falcon

  • White-throated Crake

  • Slate-colored (Andean) Coot

  • Rufous-bellied Seedsnipe

  • Andean Gull

  • Noble Snipe

  • Andean Lapwing

  • Band-tailed Pigeon

  • Ruddy Pigeon

  • Plumbeous Pigeon

  • Eared Dove

  • Black-winged Ground-dove

  • White-throated Quail-dove

  • Maroon-tailed Parakeet

  • Rose-faced Parrot

  • Red-billed Parrot

  • Speckle-face (White-capped) Parrot

  • Bronze-winged Parrot

  • Scaly-naped Parrot

  • Black-banded "San Isidro" Owl

  • Rufous-banded Owl

  • Black-and-white Owl

  • Crested Owl

  • Rufous-bellied Nighthawk

  • Swallow-tailed Nightjar

  • Lyre-tailed Nightjar

  • Pauraque 

  • Common Potoo

  • Andean Potoo

  • Chestnut-collared Swift

  • White-collared Swift

  • Lesser Swallow-tailed Swift

  • White-tipped Sicklebill

  • White-whiskered Hermit

  • Tawny-bellied Hermit

  • White-necked Jacobin

  • White-throated Daggerbill

  • Geoffrey's Daggerbill

  • Brown Violetear

  • Lesser (Green) Violetear

  • Sparkling Violetear

  • Green Thorntail

  • Western Emerald

  • Crowned Woodnymph

  • Rufous-tailed Hummingbird

  • Andean Emerald

  • Speckled Hummingbird

  • Purple-bibbed Whitetip

  • Empress Brilliant

  • Green-crowned Brilliant

  • Fawn-breasted Brilliant

  • Violet-fronted Brilliant

  • Ecuadorian Hillstar

  • Green-backed Hillstar

  • Giant hummingbird

  • Glowing Puffleg

  • Sapphire-vented Puffleg

  • Shining Sunbeam

  • Bronzy Inca

  • Brown Inca

  • Collared Inca                  

  • Sword-billed Hummingbird

  • Great Sapphirewing

  • Buff-tailed Coronet

  • Chestnut-breasted Coronet

  • Velvet-purple Coronet

  • Gorgeted Sunangel

  • Tourmaline Sunangel

  • White-booted Racket-tail

  • Black-tailed Trainbearer

  • Green-tailed Trainbearer

  • Rainbow-bearded Thornbill

  • Blue-mantled Thornbill

  • Tyrian Metaltail

  • Mountain Avocetbill

  • Long-tailed Sylph

  • Violet-tailed Sylph

  • Purple-crowned Fairy

  • Long-billed Starthroat

  • Purple-throated Woodstar

  • White-bellied Woodstar

  • Gorgeted Woodstar

  • Crested Quetzal

  • Golden-headed Quetzal

  • Collared Trogon

  • Masked Trogon

  • Gartered Trogon

  • Broad-billed Motmot

  • Rufous Motmot

  • Andean Motmot

  • Rufous-tailed Jacamar

  • Barred Puffbird

  • White-whiskered Puffbird

  • White-faced Nunbird

  • Red-headed Barbet

  • Toucan Barbet

  • Southern Emerald Toucanet

  • Crimson-rumped Toucanet

  • Pale-mandibled Araçari

  • Plate-billed Mountain-toucan

  • Gray-breasted Mountain-toucan

  • Black-billed Mountain-toucan

  • Yellow-throated Toucan

  • Chocó Toucan

  • Crimson-mantled Woodpecker

  • Golden-olive Woodpecker

  • Cinnamon Woodpecker

  • Lineated Woodpecker 

  • Black-cheeked Woodpecker

  • Yellow-vented Woodpecker

  • Bar-bellied Woodpecker

  • Red-rumped Woodpecker

  • Scarlet-backed Woodpecker

  • Guayaquil Woodpecker

  • Powerful Woodpecker

  • Chestnut (Bar)-winged Cinclodes

  • Stout-billed Cinclodes

  • Pacific Hornero

  • Andean Tit-spinetail

  • White-chinned Thistletail

  • Azara's Spinetail

  • Slaty Spinetail

  • Rufous Spinetail

  • Red-faced Spinetail

  • Many-striped Canastero

  • Spotted Barbtail

  • Pacific Tuftedcheek

  • Streaked Tuftedcheek

  • Pearled Treerunner

  • Scaly-throated Foliage-gleaner

  • Western Woodhaunter

  • Buff-fronted Foliage-gleaner

  • Striped Treehunter

  • Streak-capped Treehunter

  • Uniform Treehunter

  • Tyrannine Woodcreeper

  • Plain-brown Woodcreeper

  • Strong-billed Woodcreeper

  • Spotted Woodcreeper

  • Olive-backed Woodcreeper

  • Streak-headed Woodcreeper

  • Montane Woodcreeper

  • Brown-billed Scythebill

  • Greater Scythebill

  • Black-crowned Antshrike

  • Russet Antshrike

  • Pacific Antwren

  • Slaty Antwren

  • Streak-headed Antbird

  • Western Fire-eye

  • Blackish Antbird

  • Zeledon's Antbird

  • Chestnut-backed Antbird

  • Bicolored Antbird

  • Rufous-breasted Antthrush

  • Giant Antpitta

  • Moustached Antpitta

  • Chestnut-crowned Antpitta

  • White-bellied Antpitta

  • Yellow-breasted Antpitta

  • Ochre-breasted Antpitta

  • Equatorial (Rufous) Antpitta

  • Tawny Antpitta

  • Peruvian Antpitta

  • Spillmann's Tapaculo

  • Long-tailed Tapaculo

  • Paramo Tapaculo

  • Ocellated Tapaculo

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  • Ashy-headed Tyrannulet

  • Tawny-rumped Tyrannulet

  • Southern Beardless-tyrannulet 

  • White-crested Elaenia 

  • Sierran Elaenia

  • Sulphur-bellied Tyrannulet

  • White-banded Tyrannulet

  • White-tailed Tyrannulet

  • Rufous-winged Tyrannulet

  • Sulphur-bellied Tyrannulet

  • Torrent Tyrannulet

  • Tufted Tit-tyrant

  • Streak-necked Flycatcher

  • Olive-striped Flycatcher

  • Choco Tyrannulet

  • Marble-faced Bristle-tyrant

  • Variegated Bristle-tyrant

  • Yellow Tyrannulet

  • Rufous-breasted Flycatcher

  • Ornate Flycatcher

  • Rufous-headed Pygmy-tyrant

  • Scale-crested Pygmy-tyrant

  • Golden-faced Tyrannulet

  • Rufous-crowned Tody-flycatcher

  • Common Tody-flycatcher

  • Fulvous-breasted Flatbill

  • Ornate Flycatcher

  • Tawny-breasted Flycatcher

  • Bran-colored Flycatcher

  • Flavescent Flycatcher

  • Handsome Flycatcher

  • Cinnamon Flycatcher

  • Smoke-colored Pewee

  • Brown-backed Chat-tyrant

  • Rufous-breasted Chat-tyrant

  • Chestnut-belled Chat-tyrant

  • Yellow-bellied Chat-tyrant

  • Red-rumped Bush-tyrant

  • Black-billed Shrike-tyrant

  • Streak-throated Bush-tyrant

  • Páramo Ground-tyrant

  • Masked Water-tyrant

  • Pale-edged Flycatcher

  • Boat-billed Flycatcher

  • Rusty-margined Flycatcher

  • Golden-bellied Flycatcher

  • Cinnamon Becard

  • One-colored Becard

  • Cryptic (Black-and-white) Becard

  • Barred Becard

  • Masked Tityra

  • Black-crowned Tityra

  • Red-crested Cotinga

  • Green-and-black Fruiteater

  • Black-chested Fruiteater

  • Orange-breasted Fruiteater

  • Olivaceous Piha

  • Dusky Piha

  • Andean Cock-of-the-Rock

  • Golden-winged Manakin

  • White-bearded Manakin

  • Club-winged Manakin

  • Turquoise Jay

  • Beautiful Jay

  • Green (Inca) Jay

  • Black-billed Peppershrike

  • Slaty-capped Shrike-vireo

  • Brown-capped Vireo

  • Lesser Greenlet

  • Andean Solitaire

  • Black Solitaire

  • Speckled (Spotted) Nightingale-Thrush

  • Slaty-backed Nightingale Thrush

  • Pale-eyed Thrush

  • Glossy-black Thrush

  • Great Thrush

  • Ecuadorian Thrush

  • White-capped Dipper

  • Gray-breasted Martin

  • Brown-bellied Swallow

  • Blue-and-white Swallow

  • White-thighed Swallow

  • Band-backed Wren

  • Rufous Wren

  • Grass Wren

  • Bay Wren

  • Mountain Wren

  • Gray-breasted Wood-wren

  • Sharpe's (Sepia-brown) Wren

  • Plain-tailed Wren

  • Long-billed Gnatwren

  • Half-collared (Tawny-faced) Gnatwren

  • Tropical Gnatcatcher

  • Páramo Pipit

  • Tropical Parula

  • Olive-crowned Yellowthroat

  • Slate-throated Whitestart

  • Spectacled Whitestart

  • Black-crested Warbler        

  • Golden-bellied (Chocó) Warbler

  • Three-striped Warbler

  • Russet-crowned Warbler

  • Buff-rumped Warbler

  • Green Honeycreeper

  • Golden-collared Honeycreeper

  • Yellow-tufted Dacnis

  • Cinereous Conebill

  • Blue-backed Conebill

  • Capped Conebill

  • Giant Conebill

  • Bluish Flowerpiercer

  • Masked Flowerpiercer

  • Black Flowerpiercer

  • White-sided Flowerpiercer

  • Indigo Flowerpiercer

  • Deep Blue (Golden-eyed) Flowerpiercer

  • Guira Tanager

  • Fawn-breasted Tanager

  • Moss-backed Tanager

  • Glistening-green Tanager

  • Rufous-throated Tanager

  • Golden Tanager

  • Silver-throated Tanager

  • Saffron-crowned Tanager

  • Flame-faced Tanager

  • Beryl-spangled Tanager

  • Blue-and-black Tanager

  • Golden-naped Tanager

  • Metallic-green Tanager

  • Black-capped Tanager

  • Blue-necked Tanager

  • Golden-hooded Tanager

  • Bay-headed Tanager

  • Scarlet-bellied Mountain-tanager

  • Lacrimose Mountain-tanager

  • Blue-winged Mountain-tanager

  • Black-chinned Mountain-tanager

  • Hooded Mountain-tanager

  • Buff-breasted Mountain-tanager

  • Grass-green Tanager

  • Blue-gray Tanager

  • Palm Tanager

  • Blue-capped Tanager

  • Blue-and-yellow Tanager

  • Flame (Lemon)-rumped Tanager

  • White-lined Tanager

  • White-shouldered Tanager

  • Common Chlorospingus

  • Ashy-throated Chlorospingus

  • Dusky Chlorospingus

  • Yellow-throated Chlorospingus

  • Yellow-whiskered Chlorospingus

  • Gray-hooded Bush-tanager

  • Black-capped Hemispingus

  • Black-eared Hemispingus

  • Western Hemispingus

  • Plushcap

  • Buff-throated Saltator

  • Black-winged Saltator

  • Golden Grosbeak

  • White-winged Tanager

  • Blue-black Grassquit

  • Variable Seedeater

  • Yellow-bellied Seedeater

  • Páramo Seedeater

  • Plain-colored Seedeater

  • Band-tailed Seedeater

  • Blue Seedeater

  • Plumbeous Sierra-finch

  • Tanager Finch

  • Pale-naped Brushfinch

  • Yellow-breasted (Rufous-naped) Brushfinch

  • Slaty Brushfinch

  • White-winged Brushfinch

  • Chestnut-capped Brushfinch

  • Gray-browed Brushfinch

  • Orange-billed Sparrow

  • Rufous-collared Sparrow

  • (Northern) Mountain Cacique

  • Subtropical Cacique

  • Russet-backed Oropendola

  • Scrub Blackbird

  • Yellow-tailed Oriole

  • Hooded Siskin

  • Olivaceous Siskin

  • Thick-billed Euphonia

  • Golden-rumped Euphonia

  • Orange-bellied Euphonia    

  • Chestnut-breasted Chlorophonia