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Galapagos Islands and Mainland Ecuador Bird List 2002

Galapagos

  • Galapagos Penguin
  • Audubon's Shearwater
  • Dark-rumped Petrel
  • Wedge-rumped Storm Petrel
  • Elliot's storm Petrel
  • Red-billed Tropicbird
  • Brown Pelican
  • Blue-footed Booby
  • Masked Booby
  • Red-footed Booby
  • Flightless Cormorant
  • Magnificent Frigatebird
  • Great Frigatebird
  • Swallow-tailed Gull
  • Lava Gull
  • Brown Noddy
  • Franklin's Gull
  • Laughing Gull
  • Great blue Heron
  • Great Egret
  • Cattle Egret
  • Lava Heron
  • Striated Heron
  • Yellow-crowned Night Heron
  • Greater Flamingo
  • White-cheeked Pintail Duck
  • American Oystercatcher
  • Black-necked Stilt
  • Semi-palmated Plover
  • Black-bellied Plover
  • Ruddy Turnstone
  • Wandering Tattler
  • Sanderling
  • Whimbrel
  • Spotted Sandpiper
  • Semi-palmated Sandpiper
  • Least Sandpiper
  • Red-necked Phalarope
  • Galapagos Hawk
  • Short-eared Owl
  • Galapagos Crake
  • Common Gallinule (Moorhen)
  • Galapagos Dove
  • Smooth-billed Ani
  • Galapagos Flycatcher
  • Galapagos Mockingbird
  • Yellow Warbler
  • Large Ground Finch
  • Medium Ground Finch
  • Small Ground Finch
  • Sharp-beaked Finch
  • Cactus Ground Finch
  • Vegetarian Finch
  • Large Tree Finch
  • Warbler Finch

Mainland Ecuador

(follows taxonomy from The Birds of Ecuador, Ridgely and Greenfield, 2001)
c - Cotopaxi, m - Mindo, b -Bellavista, q - Quito, h - Heard only

  • Blue-winged Teal c
  • Rufescent Tiger-Heron m
  • Cattle Egret m
  • Turkey Vulture m
  • Roadside Hawk m
  • Broad-winged Hawk m
  • Carunculated Caracara c
  • American Kestrel c
  • Andean Guan m
  • Andean Coot c
  • Sunbittern m
  • Spotted Sandpiper m
  • Andean Lapwing c
  • Andean Gull c
  • Rock Dove q
  • Band-tailed Pigeon m
  • Eared Dove q
  • Blank-winged Ground Dove c
  • Red-billed Parrot b
  • Squirrel Cuckoo m
  • Common Potoo b
  • Pauraque b
  • Lyre-tailed Nightjar b
  • White-collared Swift b
  • Tawny-bellied Hermit m
  • Gray-chinned Hermit b
  • Green-fronted Lancebill b
  • Brown Violet-ear b
  • Green Violet-ear b
  • Sparkling Violet-ear b
  • Western Emerald b
  • Rufous-tailed Hummingbird b
  • Speckled Hummingbird b
  • Purple-bibbed Whitetip b
  • Green-crowned Brilliant b
  • Fawn-breasted Brilliant b
  • Mountain Velvetbreast m
  • Brown Inca b
  • Collared Inca b
  • Buff-tailed Coronet b
  • Booted Racket-tail b
  • Black-tailed Trainbearer q
  • Long-tailed Sylph b
  • Purple-throated Woodstar b
  • Little Woodstar b
  • Masked Trogon b
  • Red-headed Barbet m
  • Toucan Barbet b
  • Crimson-rumped Toucanet b
  • Plate-billed Mountain Toucan b
  • Choco Toucan m
  • Stout-billed Cinclodes c
  • Azar's Spinetail b
  • Rufous Spinetail m
  • Red-faced Spinetail m
  • Streaked Tuftedcheek b
  • Pearled Treerunner b
  • Buff-throated Foliage-gleaner m
  • Plain-brown Woodcreeper m
  • Strong-billed Woodcreeper m
  • Streak-headed Woodcreeper m
  • Long-tailed Antbird m
  • Chestnut-crowned Antpitta m,h
  • Ochre-breasted Antpitta m
  • Spillman's Tapaculo m,h
  • Ocellated Tapaculo m,h
  • White-tailed Tyrannulet b
  • Torrent Tyrannulet m
  • Ornate Flycatcher m
  • Flavescent Flycatcher b
  • Cinnamon Flycatcher b
  • Smoke-colored Pewee m
  • Dusky-capped Flycatcher m
  • Social Flycatcher m
  • Golden-crowned Flycatcher b
  • Tropical Kingbird m,b
  • Andean Cock-of-the-Rock b
  • Turquoise Jay b
  • Great Thrush b
  • White-capped Dipper m
  • Blue and white Swallow b
  • Southern Rough-winged Swallow m
  • Plain-tailed Wren b
  • House Wren m
  • Gray-breasted Woodwren h
  • Tennessee Warbler b
  • Tropical Parula m
  • Blackburnian Warbler b
  • Black-throated Green Warbler b
  • Slate-throated Whitestart m,b
  • Spectacled Whitestart b
  • Black-crested Warbler b
  • Three-striped Warbler m
  • Russet-crowned Warbler b
  • Bananaquit m
  • Cinereous Conebill c
  • Capped Conebill b
  • Black Flower-piercer b
  • White-sided Flower-piercer b
  • Fawn-breasted Tanager m
  • Orange-bellied Euphonia m
  • Golden Tanager b
  • Golden-naped Tanager b
  • Flame-faced Tanager m,b
  • Beryl-spangled Tanager b
  • Blue-necked Tanager m
  • Bay-headed tanager b
  • Blue-winged Mountain Tanager b
  • Grass-green Tanager b
  • Swallow Tanager b
  • Blue-gray Tanager m
  • Palm Tanager m,b
  • Blue-and-yellow Tanager c
  • Lemon-rumped Tanager m,b
  • Summer Tanager m
  • Common Bush-Tanager m
  • Dusky Bush-Tanager b
  • Yellow-throated Bush-Tanager m
  • Gray-hooded Bush-Tanager b
  • Black-winged Saltator b
  • Southern Yellow-Grosbeak m,b
  • Rose-breasted Grosbeak m
  • Variable Seedeater m
  • Yellow-bellied Seedeater b
  • Band-tailed Seedeater c
  • Chestnut-capped Brush-Finch b
  • Hooded Siskin c
  • Yellow-bellied Siskin b