COTOPAXI NATIONAL PARK
ECUADOR
COTOPAXI (ne)/PICHINCHA/NAPO
Lat:00o40´S/78o25´W 33,000ha paramo 3400-5897m
Protected/registered status
Best Time for visit (time visited)
Birding Site Guide
There is an hotel on Cotopaxi; Cuello de Luna and a camp site at Limpiopungo Lagoon on Rumiñahui Volcano.
Website www.cuellodeluna.com email, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Tel. (593-9) 9700-330, Quito (593-9) 2381-666
- Curve-billed Tinamou Nothoprocta curvirostris
- Andean Teal Anas andium
- Yellow-billed Pintail Anas georgica
- Blue-winged Teal Anas discors
- Andean Condor Vultur gryphusNT
- Cinereous Harrier Circus cinereus
- Black-chested Buzzard-Eagle Geranoaetus melanoleucus
- Variable Hawk Buteo polyosoma
- Carunculated Caracara Phalcoboenus carunculatus
- American Kestrel Falco sparverius
- Aplomado Falcon Falco femoralis
- Ecuadorian Rail Rallus aequatorialis
- Andean Coot Fulica ardesiaca
- Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca
- Lesser Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes
- Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria
- Upland Sandpiper Bartramia longicauda
- Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla
- Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla
- Baird's Sandpiper Calidris bairdii
- Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
- Stilt Sandpiper Calidris himantopus
- Noble Snipe Gallinago nobilis
- Andean Snipe Gallinago jamesoni
- Wilson's Phalarope Phalaropus tricolor
- Rufous-bellied Seedsnipe Attagis gayi
- Andean Lapwing Vanellus resplendens
- Grey Plover Pluvialis squatarola
- American Golden-Plover Pluvialis dominica
- Andean Gull Larus serranus
- Eared Dove Zenaida auriculata
- Black-winged Ground-Dove Metriopelia melanoptera
- Great Horned Owl Bubo virginianus
- Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia
- Band-winged Nightjar Caprimulgus longirostris
- White-collared Swift Streptoprocne zonaris
- Sparkling Violet-ear Colibri coruscans
- Ecuadorian Hillstar Oreotrochilus chimborazo
- Giant Hummingbird Patagona gigas
- Shining Sunbeam Aglaeactis cupripennis
- Great Sapphirewing Pterophanes cyanopterus
- Black-tailed Trainbearer Lesbia victoriae
- Tyrian Metaltail Metallura tyrianthina
- Rainbow-bearded Thornbill Chalcostigma herrani
- Blue-mantled Thornbill Chalcostigma stanleyi
- Bar-winged Cinclodes Cinclodes fuscus
- Stout-billed Cinclodes Cinclodes excelsior
- Andean Tit-Spinetail Leptasthenura andicola
- Azara's Spinetail Synallaxis azarae
- White-chinned Thistletail Schizoeaca fuliginosa
- Streak-backed Canastero Asthenes wyatti
- Many-striped Canastero Asthenes flammulata
- Tawny Antpitta Grallaria quitensis
- Unicolored Tapaculo Scytalopus unicolor
- Tufted Tit-Tyrant Anairetes parulus
- Brown-backed Chat-Tyrant Ochthoeca fumicolor
- Streak-throated Bush-Tyrant Myiotheretes striaticollis
- Black-billed Shrike-Tyrant Agriornis montana
- Paramo Ground-Tyrant Muscisaxicola alpina
- White-browed Ground-Tyrant Muscisaxicola albilora
- Spot-billed Ground-Tyrant Muscisaxicola maculirostris
- Great Thrush Turdus fuscater
- Brown-bellied Swallow Notiochelidon murina
- Blue-and-white Swallow Pygochelidon cyanoleuca
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Grass Wren Cistothorus platensis
- Mountain Wren Troglodytes solstitialis
- Paramo Pipit Anthus bogotensis
- Black-crested Warbler Basileuterus nigrocristatus
- Cinereous Conebill Conirostrum cinereum
- Black Flowerpiercer Diglossa humeralis
- Blue-and-yellow Tanager Thraupis bonariensis
- Southern-Yellow Grosbeak Pheucticus chrysogaster
- Black-backed Grosbeak Pheucticus aureoventris
- Plain-colored Seedeater Catamenia inornata
- Paramo Seedeater Catamenia homochroa
- Band-tailed Seedeater Catamenia analis
- Plumbeous Sierra-Finch Phrygilus unicolor
- Band-tailed Sierra-Finch Phrygilus alaudinus
- Grassland Yellow-Finch Sicalis luteola
- Rufous-naped Brush-Finch Atlapetes rufinucha
- Rufous-collared Sparrow Zonotrichia capensis
- Hooded Siskin Carduelis magellanica
Authors, Jane Lyons & Vinicio Perez 2001
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