Ecuador Choco 2009 Part 1

This video is from a trip to the Choco region of North West Ecuador with the travel company Naturetrek. It spans 7 clips, and begins in the tandayapa area before heading NW near the border of Columbia and then South to Jocotoco Foundation reserve at Canande. Following the opening titles (Jatari Quilatoa by Les Folkloristas), we begin at Yanacocha where the species featured are black flowerpiercer, a distant buff-breasted mountain-tanager, southern yellow grosbeak, crowned chat-tyrant, masked trogon (female then male), white-browed spinetail, great sapphirewing, sword-billed hummingbird, glossy flowerpiercer, collared inca, buff-winged starfrontlet, sapphire-vented puffleg, tyrian metaltail (male then female) and scarlet-bellied mountain-tanager.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• bird
• ecuador
• choco
• yanacocha

[ecuadorbound211]

I viewed all 7 of these for the first time today and will revisit them until I see it all in person in 2 months. It is GREAT for familiarizing myself with at least some of the species I will see. I was surprised that I could identify some of the birds already.

Cool videos for an exciting trip for a birder who not looked out of the US as of yet.

THANKS SO MUCH!!!!!!!!! Can't wait!!!

[kblomers]

@ecuadorbound211 Many thanks for the comment - really glad the videos are useful for you - and very envious that you are off there, as it's such a brilliant place

[Hummingbirder1]

Can't help it, I just LOVE that music!