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Written by Charles Hesse
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Sep 14, 2006 at 12:00 AM |
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YANA YACA RESERVE & LIST
ECUADOR
Region (Compass)
Lat:00o00´S/00o00´W ha topography msl
Protected/registered status
Best Time for visit (25th February, 2006)
Birding Site Guide
This small reserve belonging to the American biologist Harold Greeney is next to the more famous Cabañas San Isidro where there is an undescribed species of owl. One can pay to enter Cabañas San Isidro or stay for the night although it is quite expensive. There are also a couple of trails along the road leading to Yana Yaca which go through CSI property. These may or maynot be free. Birding along the road also seems to be good. Greeney runs a biological station there where biologists pay $15 a night to come and stay.
I saw 29 species including 5 lifers
Species seen
Torrent Duck Merganetta armata Seen on way
Yellow-billed Pintail Anas georgica Seen on way
Roadside Hawk Buteo magnirostris
Andean Gull Larus serranus Seen on way
Sparkling Violet-ear Colibri coruscans Seen on way
Collared Inca Coeligena torquata Photographed
Montane Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes lacrymiger
Sierran Elaenia Elaenia pallatangae Possibly seen
Smoke-colored Pewee Contopus fumigatus
Black Phoebe Sayornis nigricans Seen on way
Pale-edged Flycatcher Myiarchus cephalotes
Blue-and-white Swallow Notiochelidon cyanoleuca Seen on way. Photographed
Brown-bellied Swallow Notiochelidon murina
Great Thrush Turdus fuscater
Green Jay Cyanocorax yncas
Blackburnian Warbler Dendroica fusca
Black-and-white Warbler Mniotilta varia
Canada Warbler Wilsonia canadensis
Spectacled Redstart Myioborus melanocephalus
Black-crested Warbler Basileuterus nigrocristatus Seen on way
Blue-gray Tanager Thraupis episcopus
Fawn-breasted Tanager Pipraeidea melanonota
Saffron-crowned Tanager Tangara xanthocephala
Black-capped Tanager Tangara heinei
Masked Flowerpiercer Diglossopis cyanea
Rufous-collared Sparrow Zonotrichia capensis
Scarlet-rumped Cacique Cacicus uropygialis
Mountain Cacique Cacicus chrysonotus
Russet-backed Oropendola Psarocolius angustifrons
Other Fauna
A total of -- species of mammals.
There are -- recorded species of amphibians and reptiles.
Flora
Author: Charles Hesse
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Last Updated ( Aug 21, 2008 at 04:06 PM )
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