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Written by Charles Hesse
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Sep 14, 2006 at 12:00 AM |
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BAÑOS & LIST
ECUADOR
Region (Compass)
Lat:00o00´S/00o00´W ha topography 2,200m
Protected/registered status
Best Time for visit (23rd-24th February, 2006)
Birding Site Guide
This is a popular tourist town with beautiful scenery and hotsprings nearby. Again I stayed with the Arcos family outside of town where they own a trout farm (2,200m) that borders the Sangay National Park. There are trails up from the farm into good forest in 2 valleys. The area was great for Tapaculos (Ocellated, Unicoloured & Spillman's), hummingbirds and tanagers. Up the left valley there is a wonderful spot for hummingbirds (Saphire-vented Puffleg, Tournaline Sunangel & Collared Inca) in a clearing, quite far up, created by a landslide several years ago. The right valley had Grey-breasted Mountain-Toucan, Rusty-barred Owl, Rufous Antpitta and Blue-backed Conebill. There is plenty of accomodation in Baños and soon the Arcos family and their neighbours will finish cabins. The trails are on private land but access will be granted to people staying or eating trout at the restaurant being built.
I saw 72 species including 35 lifers
Species seen
Tawny-breasted Tinamou Nothocercus julius Heard only. Recorded
Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
Roadside Hawk Buteo magnirostris
Sickle-winged Guan Chamaepetes goudotii Photographed
Band-tailed Pigeon Patagioenas fasciata
White-throated Quail-Dove Geotrygon frenata Heard only
White-capped Parrot Pionus seniloides
Rufous-banded Owl Ciccaba albitarsus
Chestnut-collared Swift Streptoprocne rutila Possibly seen
White-collared Swift Streptoprocne zonaris
White-tipped Swift Aeronautes montivagus
Green-fronted Lancebill Doryfera ludovicae Possibly seen. Photographed
Speckled Hummingbird Adelomyia melanogenys
Collared Inca Coeligena torquata
Tourmaline Sunangel Heliangelus exortis Photographed
Glowing Puffleg Eriocnemis vestitus
Sapphire-vented Puffleg Eriocnemis luciani
Tyrian Metaltail Metallura tyrianthina
Mountain Avocetbill Opisthoprora euryptera
Long-tailed Sylph Aglaiocercus kingi
Masked Trogon Trogon personatus Photographed
Gray-breasted Mountain-Toucan Andigena hypoglauca Near-threatened Photographed
Andean Toucanet Aulacorhynchus albivitta
Bar-bellied Woodpecker Veniliornis nigriceps
Crimson-mantled Woodpecker Piculus rivolii Photographed
Pearled Treerunner Margarornis squamiger
Giant Antpitta Grallaria gigantea Endangered Possibly heard
Chestnut-crowned Antpitta Grallaria ruficapilla
Rufous Antpitta Grallaria rufula
Unicolored Tapaculo Scytalopus unicolor
Spillman's Tapaculo Scytalopus spillmanni Heard only
Ocellated Tapaculo Acropternis orthonyx Photographed
Green-and-black Fruiteater Pipreola riefferii
Dusky Piha Lipaugus fuscocinereus Photographed
White-banded Tyrannulet Mecocerculus stictopterus
Cinnamon Flycatcher Pyrrhomyias cinnamomea Photographed
Smoke-colored Pewee Contopus fumigatus
Slaty-backed Chat-Tyrant Ochthoeca cinnamomeiventris
Streak-throated Bush-Tyrant Myiotheretes striaticollis
Rufous Wren Cinnycerthia unirufa
Plain-tailed Wren Thryothorus euophrys Heard only
Mountain Wren Troglodytes solstitialis Photographed
Gray-breasted Wood-Wren Henicorhina leucophrys
Andean Solitaire Myadestes ralloides
Great Thrush Turdus fuscater Photographed
Green Jay Cyanocorax yncas
Turquoise Jay Cyanolyca turcosa Photographed
Brown-capped Vireo Vireo leucophrys
Blackburnian Warbler Dendroica fusca
Canada Warbler Wilsonia canadensis
Slate-throated Redstart Myioborus miniatus
Spectacled Redstart Myioborus melanocephalus
Citrine Warbler Basileuterus luteoviridis
Russet-crowned Warbler Basileuterus coronatus
Blue-backed Conebill Conirostrum sitticolor
Grass-green Tanager Chlorornis riefferii
Short-billed Bush-Tanager Chlorospingus parvirostris
Black-eared Hemispingus Hemispingus melanotis
Hooded Mountain-Tanager Buthraupis montana Photographed
Lacrimose Mountain-Tanager Anisognathus lacrymosus
Golden-crowned Tanager Iridosornis rufivertex
Saffron-crowned Tanager Tangara xanthocephala
Flame-faced Tanager Tangara parzudakii
Golden-naped Tanager Tangara ruficervix
Beryl-spangled Tanager Tangara nigroviridis
Plush-capped Finch Catamblyrhynchus diadema Photographed
Masked Flowerpiercer Diglossopis cyanea
Slaty Brush-Finch Atlapetes schistaceus
Chestnut-capped Brush-Finch Buarremon brunneinucha
Rufous-collared Sparrow Zonotrichia capensis
Black-backed Grosbeak Pheucticus aureoventris
Mountain Cacique Cacicus chrysonotus
Other Fauna
A total of -- species of mammals.
There are -- recorded species of amphibians and reptiles.
Flora
Author: Charles Hesse
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