April 2018 – Kathy Adams Clark

Tanager & Other Birds — Ecuador Photo Tours

Tanagers are one of my favorite families of birds in the tropics. They are colorful, rather large, somewhat slow, and plentiful. The Ecuador birding field guide lists about 66 species with tanager in their name. We didn’t photograph that many during our Strabo Photo Tour Collections trip in March but we got a lot.

Black-capped tanager; Tangara heinei; Ecuador; Mindo Valley — Black-capped tanager — Mindo Valley, Ecuador

Blue-capped tanager KAC9857 — Blue-capped tanager in the Mindo Valley. This was a new bird for me.

Blue-capped tanager KAC9864 — Blue-capped tanager

Blue-winged mountain-tanager KAC9997 — Blue-winged mountain-tanager

Golden tanager; Tangara arthus; Ecuador; San Tadeo; Mindo Valley — Golden tanager — Mindo Valley, Ecuador

Flame-faced tanager; Tangara parzudakii; Ecuador; San Tadeo; Mindo Valley — Flame-faced tanager — Mindo Valley. What a great name!

White-lined tanager KAC9389 — White-lined tanager — See the white line?

We found a nice variety of birds along the way. These are all from the Mindo Valley of Ecuador on the western slope of the Andes Mountains.

Chestnut-capped Brush-Finch, Buarremon brunneinucha, — Chestnut-capped brush-finch

Crimson-rumped toucanet KAC9716 — Crimson-rumped toucanet

Crimson-rumped toucanet KAC9740 — Crimson-rumped toucanet — here you can see the rump

Dusky Chlorospingus KAC0091 — Dusky Chlorospingus — Love that name!

rufous-collared sparrow KAC0035 — Rufous-collared sparrow — so common but so pretty.

Swainson's thrush KAC9427 — Swainson’s thrush on wintering grounds. It will be arriving in my area of Texas in mid-April on its way to breeding grounds in the north.

Here are a couple more hummingbirds from the last day of the trip. The birds in Ecuador are amazing.

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My 2018-2019 photo tour schedule is on the Strabo Photo Tours site or on my website.