#Ecuador, #Manabi #birds Nice outing to Refugio de la Tomatera - #BirdsSeenIn2025 Pacific Hornero, Summer Tanager, Chivi Vireo, Tumbes Pewee

Lovely day exploring areas within the CBC circle for #Chone #Ecuador, #Manabi. I think this final image is a Slaty Becard. #BirdsSeenIn2025

#BirdsSeenIn2025, #Ecuador, #Manabi, #Chone Wood Storks, Great Black Hawk, Streaked Flycatcher & Long-billed Starthroat.

Does anyone else suffer from a birding hangover the day after Migratory Bird Day/October Big Day?! Ah, but it was worth the long hours in the field! #Birds, #BirdsSeenIn2025, #Ecuador Hook-billed Kite, Cocoi, Anhinga, and one mystery bird. Can anyone help with its ID? ebird.org/tripreport/4...

#Ecuador, #BirdsSeenIn2025, #Birds Eastern Kingbirds showed up this week at Parque las Vegas/Portoviejo two months earlier than usual for this location. Nearby were the Western Cattle Egret, Neotropic Cormorant and the lovely Purple Gallinules

#Ecuador, #BirdsSeenIn2025, #Birds Scouting before #WorldMigratoryBirdDay #OctoberBigDay - some lovely species showed up for roll call at the boca of Rio Portoviejo. American Kestrel, Black-bellied Plover, Semi Palmated Plover, Wilson's Plover

Guess how many seeds were in one of those small fruits? People often ask how the birds survive during extended dry seasons. If the natural habitat is not disturbed, they have many options, like these tasty fruits and the tiny wild tomatoes that also thrive along the roadside. (200 seeds!)

Exploring the remaining fragments of Western #Ecuador 's Tumbesian Region, I was captivated by the beauty of this well-behaved vine. iNaturalist provided identification: Passiflora-colinvauxii - endemic to Ecuador. A year later the flowers showed another facet. And now: the ripe fruits! #Manabi

(Refugio de la Tomatera-Manabi) Working on art in the bosque often provides memorable birding experiences. Flitting near where I worked were these species: Ecuadorian Piculet, Tropical Parula,Streaked Saltator and Necklaced Spinetail. #birds, #BirdsSeenIn2025, #Ecuador, #Portoviejo

#BirdsSeenIn2025, #Ecuador, Species registered in earlier posts for 2025 but worthy of the spotlight: Groove-billed Anis, Golden-olive Woodpecker, Black-cheeked Woodpeckers and one glorious Collared Aracari #Chone, #Ricaurte, #RFI, #RegenerationFieldInstitute, #Birds

#BirdsSeenIn2025, #Ecuador, #Manabi Buff-throated Saltator, Gray-lined Hawk (Buteo nitidus) - at dawn, Bat Falcon (Falco rufigularis) and Southern House Wren (Troglodytes musculus)

#birdsSeenIn2025, #birds, #Ecuador, #Chone, #Manabi Collared Aracari - Pteroglossus torquatus, White-tipped Dove -Leptotila verreauxi, Masked Tityra -Tityra semifasciata, Guira Tanager - Hemithraupis guira Lovely weekend 'slow birding' with friends Oswaldo y Stefany. ebird.org/tripreport/4...

#BirdsSeenIn2025, #Ecuador, #Manabi A student birding outing to friends' shrimp picinas at the boca/Rio Portoviejo. Whimbrels, Willet, Black-bellied Plover, Comb Ducks, Fulvous Whistling Ducks, Black-bellied Wh. Ducks, Black-necked Stilts, Roseate Spoonbills, Tri-colored Heron, Spotted Sandpiper 👍

#Birds, #BirdsSeenIn2025, #Ecuador, #Portoviejo How's this for Sunday Eye Candy? Three adorable Burrowing Owls at Parque las Vegas! A Common Potoo as a bonus! I could've stayed there all afternoon just staring and smiling!

#mangroveDay, #birds, #BirdsSeenIn2025, #Ecuador After a jr-high basketball tournament, I balanced the rest of World Mangrove Day in the serene setting of shrimp ponds near the mouth of Rio Portoviejo (Ecuador.) Paz White-cheeked Pintail, Yellow-crowned Night Heron, White-browed Gnatcatcher

#mangroveDay, #birds, #BirdsSeenIn2025, #Ecuador Neotropic Cormorant, Yellow (Mangrove) Warbler, Green Kingfisher Rio Portoviejo - Manabi - Ecuador

#BirdsSeenIn2025, #Birds, #Ecuador, #Manabi Look who dropped in to a child's first birthday gatherinig! Gartered Trogon & Ecuadorian Trogon traded places in the cecropias, then far far away the Rufous-headed Chachalacas were in stealth mode. (Can you find the chachalaca in the final image?)

Reposting this one for the #BirdsSeenIn2025 - American Oystercatcher and Willet for Ecuador...

#BirdsSeenIn2025, #Birds, #Portoviejo, #Ecuador More special bird moments from this week: Cocoi Heron, Great Egret, young Wattled Jacana, Limpkin, Smooth-billed Ani

#BirdsSeenIn2025, #Birds Birds seen this week, Manabi Province, Ecuador Common Potoo (yay!), Osprey (Yay!), two new Burrowing Owls, (Yay-Yay!) and Black-crowned Night Heron, Great Egret, Neotropical Cormrants, Cocoi Heron - a great week of birding!

Chone Ecuador. A tribute to earth, wind, fire and water at this past weekend's Seed Exchange near Represa Rio Grande. Most photos are still in the camera - more soon! Lisa

#BirdsSeenIn2025, #Birds, #Manabi, #Ecuador Dawn birding/Represa Rio Grande (Chone) Magnificent Frigatebird, Thick-billed Euphonia, Ringed Kingfisher,Chestnut-throated Seedeater

#birds, #Ecuador, #RepresaRioGrande, #Chone,#Manabi Dawn birding with friend/bird guide Luis Saltos (Chone) -- beautiful to see intact forests and an abundance of birds. Fuzzy fotos but ok for #BirdsSeenIn2025. Bananaquit, Orange-crowned Euphonia, Orange-bellied Euphonia,Giant Cowbird (Juv.)

#Birds, #BirdsSeenIn2025, #Ecuador, #Manabi, #laTomatera July aves/Refugio de la Tomaterea Rufous-headed Chachalaca, Sooty-crowned Flycatcher,Southern Beardless Tyrannulet,Striped Cuckoo

#Birds, #BirdsSeenIn2025, #Ecuador, #Manabi, #Rocafuerte Limpkin, Snail Kite, Comb Duck, Black-bellied Whistling Duck, Fulvous Whistling Duck, Snowy Egret/Cattle Egret hybrid?

#Birds, #birdsSeenIn2025 #Ecuador #Portoviejo #Manabi Pearl Kite, Black Vulture, Turkey Vulture (Choco), Savanna Hawk

'Got Shrimp? Crab?' - #Birds, #BirdsSeenIn2025, #Portoviejo, #Ecuador Pied-billed Grebe, White Ibis immature, Black-necked Stilt, White Ibis

#birds, #birdsSeenIn2025, #Ecuador More Shrimpfest photos - Manabi, Ecuador White-cheeked Pintail, Pied-billed Grebe, Snowy Egret, White Ibis, Cocoi Heron, Black-necked Stilt, Little Blue Heron, Yellow-crowned Night Heron,

#birds, #birdsSeenIn2025, #Ecuador Friends harvested a shrimp pond this week, so the birds enjoyed a SHRIMPFEST! Rio Portoviejo, Manabi,Ecuador White Ibis, Greater Yellowlegs,Black-bellied Plover, Roseate Spoonbill, Great Egret, Snowy Egret, White Ibis, Gray-hooded Gull,Vermilion Flycatcher

More nsects and botanicals from Glamping/la Pita - June 28/2025 #Portoviejo, #Manabi, #Ecuador, #insects, @biokevin4.bsky.social , @juliocgereda.bsky.social eda.bsky.social

Insects and botanicals from Refugio de la Tomatera - June 28/2025 #Portoviejo, #Manabi, #Ecuador, @biokevin4.bsky.social , @juliocgereda.bsky.social

Swallows are fewer this year where I normally see them in Ecuador; I kept hoping for more opportunities instead of using the first two images for #BirdsSeenIn2025, #Ecuador. Blue & White Swallow, Barn Swallow, Harris' Hawk, Greater Yellowlegs #Portoviejo

#SciArt Pairing Tumbesian endemics from W. Ecuador 1: Pacific Parrotlets (Forpus coelestis) and a petite 'maracuya' vine/ (Passiflora colinvauxii) 2: Esmeraldas Woodstar (3rd smallest bird in the world) and a heat-loving nasturtium that appears during extra-rainy years. Leaving now to check on #2!

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Manabi/Ecuador #birds #Portoviejo Repeating the history from July/Aug 2023, the smallest bird in South America is back, as are the wild nasturtiums. This species is usually MIA between June and November of each year. The nasturtium appears, and so does the woodstar. What would Darwin have said?

#Birds, #birdsSeenIn2025, #Manabi, Western Ecuador Species seen this past week at Refugio/la Tomatera were two Red-billed Scythebills and the Streaked-headed Woodcreeper (almost always the woodcreeper at this refugio) This bird's dark bill has me baffled. Is it a young Red-billed Scythebill?

Necklaced Spinetail, Ecuadorian Trogon, Striped Cuckoo, Scrub Nightjar Refugio de la Tomatera/Portoviejo #birds, #BirdsSeenIn2025, #Ecuador, #Portoviejo, #Manabi

Wetlands between Portoveijo and Rocafuerte #Ecuador - White-tailed Kite, Snail Kite, Hook Billed Kite. Final photo shows Wattled Jacana,Blue-winged Teal, Striated Heron, Great egret and Common Gallinule #birds, #birdsSeenIn2025

Working on native species information for 'Creating Bird-friendly Cities and Communities'. The city of Portoviejo has embraced this Environment for the Americas/2025 theme. @abcbirds.bsky.social #Portoviejo, #Jaboncillo, #Manabi, #Ecuador

#Birds, #BirdsSeenIn2025,#Manta Birds seen/Manta Ecuador - Laughing Gulls, American Oystercatcher, Willet, Long-tailed Grackle, Osprey.

More birds from Refugio de la Tomatera, Portoviejo-Ecuador. Gray-capped Cuckoo, Red-billed Scythebill, Cryptic Becard, Chivi Vireo #birds, #birdsSeenIn2025 #Ecuador, #Manabi

This past week was full of nature moments. Refugio de la Tomatera - lots of Tumbesian Endemics along a reclaimed pedestrian trail. Collared Antshrike, Necklaced Spinetail, Scarlet-backed Woodpecker, and the VIP Esmeraldas Woodstar #birds, #birdsSeenIn2025 #Ecuador, #Manabi

#birds, #birdsSeenIn2025 #Ecuador, #Manabi Lovely immersion in nature with friends at la Pita Glamping.. Streaked Flycatcher, Scarlet-backed Woodpecker, Shiny Cowbird, Masked Tityra

#birds, #birdsSeenIn2025 #Ecuador, #Manabi More birds seen while birding with friends at 'Glamping' La Pita/Ecuador Scarlet-rumped Cacique, White-lined Tanager, Common Tody Flycatcher, Squirrel Cuckoo

#birds, #birdsSeenIn2025 #Ecuador, #Manabi Birding with friends at 'Glamping' (La Pita) N-East of Portoviejo. Common Potoo, Guayaquil Woodpecker, Black-cheeked Woodpecker,Ecuadorian Thrush, Black-faced Dacnis

#BirdsSeenIn2025, #birds,#Manabi, #Ecuador Spoonbills! Limpkins! Baby Limpkins! Baby Fulvous Whistling Ducks, y Immature Black-bellied Whistling Ducks! What a great finale to #WorldEnvironmentDay between Portoviejo and Rocafuerte Ecuador!

#WorldEnvironmentDay Pause and consider a sterile planet where humans' choices have wiped out our natural world. Extreme suffering would mark a catastrophic end to our existence. Take time to notice the beauty that nature provides, ponder the delicate balance and remember that all species matter.

#BirdsSeenIn2025, #Birds, #Manabi, #Ecuador Laughing Falcon, Sooty-crowned Flycatcher, Esmeraldas Woodstar, Streaked Saltator (eating flowers!) Refugio de la Tomatera/Portoviejo

3 Esmeraldas Woodstars paused for photo ops today at Refugio de la Tomatera (Portoviejo Ecuador) at a time when they disappear for six months. After an almost two-year absence, they're paired again with the nasturtiums which have also returned. Welcome back, Estrellitas! #birdsSeenIn2025, #birds

#birds,#BirdsSeenIn2025,@WMBD Also watching - and yet to develop fear of humans - was a young TriColored Heron. Sosote (Portoviejo/Manabi Province) Ecuador