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The Andean condor is the national bird of Ecuador.. This is a list of the bird species recorded in Ecuador including those of the Galápagos Islands.The avifauna of Ecuador has 1669 confirmed species, of which eight are endemic to the mainland and 31 are endemic to the Galápagos.
Bellavista Cloud Forest, Ecuador The Bellavista Cloud Forest Reserve is a 2,000-acre (8.1 km 2 ) certified conservation area on the North-Western slopes of the Andean mountain range and is located 52 km from the Ecuadorian capital city of Quito .
Esmeraldas woodstars are one of the smallest bird species. They are sexually dimorphic. The main difference between sexes is that males have a bright purple throat. Esmeraldas woodstars are found only on the Pacific coast of west Ecuador in semi-deciduous to evergreen forests. [4] They feed on the nectar of flowering shrubs and trees. [4]
This list of birds recorded in the Galápagos Islands includes species recorded in the Galápagos Islands of Ecuador, where 189 species have been documented as of May 2024. [1] Of them, 31 are endemic, three nest only in the Galápagos, and virtually the entire population of a fourth nests there. Seventeen endemic subspecies are noted.
Paradise jacamar at Novo Mundo, Mato Grosso State, Brazil Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Piciformes Family: Galbulidae Genus: Galbula Species: G. dea Binomial name Galbula dea (Linnaeus, 1758) Synonyms Alcedo dea Linnaeus, 1758 The paradise jacamar (Galbula dea) is a species of bird ...
B. Bar-winged wood wren; Barred hawk; Baudo guan; Bay-crowned brushfinch; Bearded guan; Beautiful jay; Bicolored antpitta; Bicolored antvireo; Black flowerpiercer
His studies have resulted in many scientific publications on the behaviour, nesting biology, mating systems, and systematics of bowerbirds, birds of paradise, and other rainforest-dwelling bird species. He has produced two major ornithological text books: The Birds of Paradise: Paradisaeidae (1998), and The Bowerbirds: Ptilonorhynchidae (2004).
The bronze parotia (Parotia berlepschi), also known as the Foja parotia, Berlepsch's parotia or Berlepsch's six-wired bird-of-paradise, is a species of bird-of-paradise, in the family Paradisaeidae. It resembles and is often considered to be a subspecies of Carola's parotia , but a high majority of authorities support its specific status.