Birding Tour Southern Ecuador 2024 El Zarza Reserve Remote Forest

Participant: Nic Lambrechts. Local guide: Pablo Andrade

Highlights: Spot-winged Parrotlet, Lanceolated Monklet, White-necked Parakeet, White-banded Nightjar. Red-billed Scytebill new record for the Bombuscaro area, and Nangaritza.

Podocarpus National Park. Cloud Forest of Cajauma: Bearded Guan,Little Sunangel, Speckled Hummingbird, Rainbow Starfrontlet, Purple-throated Sunangel, Glowing Puffleg, Chusquea Tapaculo,  Rufous Antpitta, Grass-green Tanager, Lacrimouse-Mountain Tanager, Streaked Tuftedcheek, Blue-backed Conebill, White-banded Tyrannulet,Cinnamon Flycatcher, Barred Becard.

Bombuscaro Area.

Buff-fronted Foliage Gleaner, Montane-foliage Gleaner, Strekaed Xenops, Streak-necked Flycatcher, Lanceolated Monklet, Black-streak Puffbird, Coppery-chested Jacamar, Plain Antvireo, Ecuadorian Piedtail (Heard), Foothill Elaenia, Boat-billed
Flycatcher, Orange-eared Tanager, Golden-eared Tanager, Green-and-gold Tanager, Flame-crested Tanager, Spotted Tanager, Golden Tanager, Orange-bellied and Bronce-green Euphonias, Yellow-bellied Dacnis, Black-faced Dacnis,
Yellow-breasted Antwren, Olivaceous Greenlet, Orange- crowned Flycatcher.

Remarkable Birds:
Yellow-tufted Woodpecker, Blackish Rail, Gray-breasted Crake, Band-winged Nightjar, Common Pauraque (heard),  Black Caracara, Plumbeous Pigeon, White-banded and Blue-and-white Swallow, Dark-breasted Spinetail, Roadside Hawk, Collared Trogon, Green-backed Trogon, Violet headed Hummingbird, Glittering-throated Emerald, Violet-fronted Brilliant, Golden-tailed Saphire,  Amethyst Woodstar, Peruvian Racket Tail, Black-eared Fairy, Fork tailed Woodnymph, Spot-winged Parrotlet (group about 8), Northern-white Crowned Tapaculo, Ringed Kingfisher, Green Kingfisher, Golden-bellied Flycatcher, Short-crested Flycatcher, Deep-blue Flowerpiercer, Ashy-throated Chlosrospingus, Yellow-throated Chlorospingus, Russet backed Oropendolas, Crested Oropendola, Yellow-rumped Cacique, Olivaceous Siskin.

Plumbeous Kite, Blue-headed Parrot, Linneated Woodpecker, Lafresnaye´s Piculet, Golden-olive Woodpecker, Rufous-tailed Foliage Gleaner, Buff-throated Woodcreeper,  Eastern Woodhaunter, Lineated Woodcreeper, Wedge-billed Woodcreeper, Olivaceous Woodcreeper,  Equatorial Graytail, Squirrel Cuckoo, Lined Antshrike, Fasciated Antshrike, Plain-winged antshrike, White shouldered Antshrike,  Black Anbird (heard), Spot-winged Antbird, Peruvian-warbling antbird,  Zimmers Antbird, White-browed Antbird, Blackish Antbird, Pygmy Antwren, Rusty-winged Antwren, Black-faced antbird, Wing-barred Piprites,  Thrush-like Antpitta, Foothill Schiifornis, Scaly-breasted wren (heard), Coraya Wren, Tropical Kingbird, Black-and-white tody Flycatcher, White-eyed Tody Tyrant, Yellow-margined Flatbill, Ornate Flycatcher, Olive-chested Flycatcher,  Euler´s Flycatcher,  Ruddy-tailed Flycatcher, Ecuadorian Tyrannulet,  Slaty-capped Flycatcher, Yellow-backed Tanager, Green-and-Gold Tanager, Fulvous shrike Tanager, Lemon throated Barbet, Gray-tailed Piha, Dusky-capped Greenlet, Tawny-crowned Greenlet, Slate-throated Redstar,  Bananaquit, Slaty-capped Shrike Vireo (heard), Yellow-throated Chlorospingus, Silver-beaked Tanager, Golden-collared Toucanet, Channel-billed Toucan,Yellow-bellied Tanager, Flame-crested Tanager male
and female, Green-and-gold Tanager,  Bay-headed tanager, Paradise Tanager,  Golden Tanager, Orange-throated Tanager,  Magpy Tanager, Blue-Dacnis, Black-billed Peppershrike, Slate-colored Grosbeak, White-breasted Wood Wren, Black-billed Thrush, White-necked Thrush, Rufous-bellied Thrush, Blue gray and Palm Tanagers.

At the Lodge:
Opal-rumped Tanager, Turquoise Tanager, White-collared swift,  Smooth billed ani, Blue and white swallow, Southern rough winged Swallow.