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Bird
Watching
Pululahua
National Reserve offers good Bird Watching opportunities. The reserve
has quite a few distinct habitats, which attribute to a great
variety of birds.
The flat front part of the crater at 2500m is agricultural land with
hedges, solitary trees, tree groups and shrubby areas and reaches up to the
surrounding forested crater walls with mostly small trees and shrubbery which reach up to 3000m. Also some grassland vegetation is
interspersed in that area.
The lower and steeper back part of the crater has a more
abundant cooler cloud forest vegetation (with bamboo and denser growth) at
an altitude of 2300m.
Exiting the crater, a deep canyon (depth up to 440 m) with
a lush subtropical cloud forest vegetation (with more and higher trees) drops down to
1800m.
Bird List
Following are listed the birds as identified by Celeste, a student of
ornithology, in a 4-day span from
Dec. 1st to 4th of 2000.
Note: In the last column is the trail and area noted, where the
birds were seen. Click to the trail
map for orientation.
| Black-Chested
Buzzard-Eagle |
Geranoaetus
melanoleucus |
H3, Pondoņa |
| American Kestrel |
Falco sparverius |
H1, Finca Colibri |
|
Great Thrush |
Turdus fuscater |
H2, Finca Colibri |
| Glossy-Black Thrush |
Turdus serranus |
H2, Finca Colibri |
| Red-Crested Cotinga |
Ampelion rubrocristatus |
H2, Finca Colibri |
| Rufous-Crested Tanager |
Creurgops verticalis |
B2, Moraspungo |
| Scarlet-Bellied Mt.
Tanager |
Anisognathus igniventris |
B2, Moraspungo |
| Ocellated Tapaculo |
Acropternis orthonyx |
B2, Moraspungo |
| Southern-Yellow Grosbeak |
Pheucticus chrysogaster |
H1, Finca Colibri |
| Eared Dove |
Zenaida auriculata |
H4, El Bucal |
| Scaled Dove |
Scardafella squammata |
H1, Finca Colibri |
| Bond-Tailed Pigeon |
Columba fasciata |
H1, Finca Colibri |
| Plain-Tailed Wren |
Thryothorus euophrys |
H2, Finca Colibri |
| House Wren |
Troglodytes aedon |
H2, Finca Colibri |
| Russet-Crowned Warbler |
Basileuterus coronatus |
H2, Finca Colibri |
| Pale-Naped Brush-Finch |
Atlapetes pallidinucha |
H2, Finca Colibri |
| White-Winged Brush-Finch |
Atlapetes leucopterus |
H2, Finca Colibri |
| Rufous-Collared Sparrow |
Zonotrichia capensis |
H1, Finca Colibri |
| Rufous Antpitta |
Grallaria rufula |
H2, Finca Colibri |
| Azara's Spinetail |
Synallaxis azarae |
H2, Finca Colibri |
| Brown-Bellied Swallow |
Notiochelidon cyanoleuca |
H1, Finca Colibri |
| Blue-and -White Swallow |
Notiochelidon murina |
H1, Finca Colibri |
| Cinereous Conebill |
Conirostrum cinereum |
H2, Finca Colibri |
| White-Sided Flower-Piercer |
Diglossa albilatera |
H1, Finca Colibri |
| Black Flower-Piercer |
Diglossa humeralis |
H1, Finca Colibri |
| Chestnut-Collared Swift |
Cypseloides rutilus |
H1, Finca Colibri |
| White-Collared Swift |
Streptoprocne zonaris |
H1, Finca Colibri |
| Black-Tailed Trainbearer |
Lesbia victoriae |
H2, Finca Colibri |
| Sparkling Violetears |
Colibri coruscans |
H2, Finca Colibri |
| Mountain Velvetbreast |
Lafresnaya lafresnayi |
H2, Finca Colibri |
| Tyrian Metaltail |
Metallura tyrianthina |
H2, Finca Colibri |
Other birds present in the
reserve
(as observed by the author or according to park authorities)
| Andean Guan |
Penelope montagnii |
B2, El Bucal |
| Cock-of-the-Rock |
Rupicola peruviana |
H6, River Gorge |
| Black Vulture |
Coragyps atratus |
R2, Niebli |
| Variable Hawk |
Buteo polyosoma |
H1, Finca Colibri |
| Golden-Headed Quetzal |
Pharomachrus auriceps |
H6, River Gorge |
| Collared Inca |
Coeligena
torquata |
H4, El Bucal |
Invitation to Ornithologists:
As an inventory list of birds in the Pululahua
reserve apparently doesn't exist, I invite any inspiring birder to complete this task.
As my contribution I will provide free transport, guiding and stay at Finca
Colibri.
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