Birds of the city of Loja, update 2025
Birds recorded in the city of Loja, around of the city and in the Parque recreacional la Argelia. This is not a complete list; it’s just some of the birds I’ve recently added—ones I had seen before, as well as in the past few months.
November 4, 2025. Punzara; south of the city: Band-tailed Seedeater, Purple-collared Woodstar (female)
November 2, 2025: Zamora River, North of the city of Loja: Vanellus chilensis, Avefría Sureña (Ligle Sureño), Southern Lapwing. Found north North of the city of Loja, 2 individuals.
November 2, 2025: Zamora River, North of the city of Loja. Comb Duck, Pato Crestudo American, sarkidiornis silvicola, 1 individual.
October: Vanellus chilensis, Avefría Sureña (Ligle Sureño), Southern Lapwing. Found north North of the city of Loja, 2 individuals together with a group of Cattle Egrets.
2025 august: Torrent Duck Merganetta armata 1 female around the city of Loja, Caballeria. By Pablo Vélez.
2025 September surroundings of the city: Rusty-margined Flycatcher (Myozetetes cayanensis); Brown-Violetear (Colibrí delphinae ), Lesser Violetear (Colibri cyanotus).
Broad-winged Hawk (Buteo platypterus) in the city of Loja, 19-02-2025, perched. Tumbes Pewee (contopus punensis january 2025). Laughing Gull (Leucophaeus atricilla, Malacatos River, city of Loja) december 2024. Peregrine Falcon, Falco peregrinus, north of the city of Loja, 24 feb/25. Comb Duck (Sarkidiornis melanotos, city of Loja, 13 individuals, flying over crossing throught the city, coming from the northwest of the city to the eastside) Jan 1/25. Greater ani (Crotophaga major) 1), january 1/25. Swainson´s Hawk 1, jan 1 / 25.
Ecuadorian Rail (Rallus aequatorialis), Saraguro 2022.
White-capped Tanager – Sericossypha albocristata, a group of birds recorded. (mountain around the city of Loja).
House Wren, Troglodytes ssp (mountain around the city of Loja).
Orange-banded Flycaycher – Nephelomyias lintoni: Mountain around the city of Loja.
Pale-edged Flycatcher ( myiarchus cephalotes).
Black-necked Stilt ( Himantopus mexicanus melanurus – Abril 2025). Black-bellied Whistling-Duck (Dendrocygna autumnalis 2018); White-cheeked Pintail (Anas bahamensis), Blue-winged Teal (Spatula discors), Brazilian Teal (Amazonetta brasiliensis: 2022), Neotropic Cormorant, Anhinga – Pato Aguja (Anhinga Anhinga), Striated Heron, Black-crowned Night-Heron, Cocoi Heron Ardea cocoi, Great Egret, Snowy Egret, Cattle Egret, Black Vulture, Roadside Hawk, Black-chested Buzzard-Eagle, Variable Hawk, Aplomado Falcon, Bat Falcon (Falco rufigularis), American Kestrel, Plumbeous Rail, Slate-colored Coot (Fulica ardesiaca). Spotted Sandpiper, Solitary Sandpiper (Tringa solitaria). Purple Gallinule, Common Gallinule, Upland Sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda), Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris malanotos, Least Bittern (Ixobrychus exilis), Eared Dove, Rock Pigeron, Red-Masked Parakeet (int), Pacific Parrotlet (int); Canary-winged Parakeet (Brotogeris versicolurus found in the dowtown of the city of Loja); Groove-billed Ani; Dark-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus melacoryphus); Koepcke´s Screech Owl, Great-Horned Owl, Rufous-banded Owl, Peruvian Pygmy-Owl, Stygian Owl, Common Nighthawk, Oilbird (Steatornis caripensis).
Chestnut-collared Swift. A flock of Chestnut-collared Swift has been regularly observed here in the city of Loja for about 15 years, suggesting the species may be locally resident. Gray-rumped Swift !!. White-collared Swift.
Loja Hummingbird, Long-billed Starthroat (Heliomaster longirostris); White-bellied Woodstar, Sparkling Violetear, Ringed Kingfisher, Green Kingfisher, Golden-olive Woodpecker, Pacific Hornero, Sierran Elaenia (Elaenia pallatangae); Nesotriccus sp, pressumed (Phaemyias murina guagae), Fulvous-headed Pygmy Tyrant, Black Phoebe, Tropical Kingbird, Eastern Kingbird (Tyrannus tyrannus), Great Kiskadee (Pitangus sulphuratus), Black-and-white Becard, One-colored Becard, Blue-and-white Swallow, Gray-breasted Martin, Barn Swallow, House Wren, Fasciated Wren, Great Thrush, Chiguanco Thrush, Ecuadorian Thrush (Turdus maculirostris; Plumbeous-backed Thrush Turdus reevei; Blue-gray Tanager, Fawn-breasted Tanager, Summer Tanager, Tropical Parula (Parula Pitiayumi), Golden Grosbeak, Scrub Blackbird, Shiny Cowbird, Bay-crowned Brush-Finch (Atlapetes seebohmi), Peruvian Meadowlark, Hooded Siskin, Black-cowled Saltator (saltator nigriceps), Lesser Goldfinch Carduelis psaltria; Yellow-bellied Seedeater Sporophila nigricollis, Orange-crowned Euphonia (Euphonia saturata), Thick-billed Euphonia (Euphonia laniirostris), Blue-naped Chlorophonia (Chlorophonia cyanea), Golden-rumped Euphonia, House Sparrow.
