The afternoons of March 18 and 19, 2022, I visited the Milpe Bird Sanctuary outside of Mindo, Ecuador, at an elevation of about 3,772 feet. They have a covered area where they serve lunch with close observation of several different hummingbird feeders and a large branch to which halved bananas are impaled to attract birds. I did not see the number or variety of birds that I saw at the Mashpi Amagusa Reserve, but saw some spectacular birds there that I did not see in Mashpi.
I saw 20 species of birds, including 6 species of hummingbird (the green-crowned brilliant, velvet-purple coronet, white-necked Jacobin, rufous-tailed hummingbird, crowned woodnymph and green thorntail); 3 species of toucan (Choco toucan, collared aracari and chestnut-madibled toucan), blue-gray tanagers, palm tanagers, a green honeycreeper, bananaquit, and a crested guan.
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Bananaquit |
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Blue-Gray Tanager |
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Chestnut-mandibled toucan |
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Choco toucan |
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Collared or pale-mandibled toucan |
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Crested guan |
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Crowned woodnymph |
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Flame-rumped tanager |
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Golden-naped tanager |
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Golden tanager |
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Green honeycreeper |
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Green thorntail |
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Green-crowned brilliant |
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Palm tanager |
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Red-tailed squirrel |
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Velvet purple coronet |
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White-necked Jacobin |
Seeing the three toucans and numerous hummingbirds together and being able to clearly see the differences is really interesting.
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