Posted by Brian Rapoza on August 24, 2017 at 23:56:41
Six birders joined me for the TAS tour of southern Ecuador from July 15-31. We stayed at seven different bird lodges and visited two national parks (Podocarpus and El Cajas) as well as several Jocotoco Foundation bird refuges. By tour's end, we saw or heard 564 species of birds (509 seen by at least one participant), including over twenty raptors, nine rails, fifteen pigeons and doves, almost sixty hummingbirds, thirteen woodpeckers, eleven parrots, almost thirty antbirds, ten antpittas (seven seen well), thirty-five ovenbirds and woodcreepers, seventy-five flycatchers, seventeen wrens and seventy tanagers! To view a complete trip report, click on the link below.