Ecuador

Birding Northwestern Ecuador Part 1: Yanacocha, Calacali, Bellavista, Paz de las Aves, and Mindo

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24 October – 2 November 2015. After a slow start in Ecuador and a couple of vehicle problems, we were elated to finally have everything sorted and mostly in working order. We spent a couple of quick days in Quito meeting some local birders and seeing a little bit of the town. We met two of the best birders in Ecuador, Rudy Gelis and Roger [...]

Birding Northern Ecuador

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September – October 2015. Birding in Colombia was so intense and amazing that when we arrived in Ecuador we were spent and needed some down time. We also arrived woefully unprepared and needed time to simply look at a map and a field guide! We had little more than a few names of sites in mind, and no real plan for where we wanted to go [...]