Site Report: Yanacocha
Glossy Flowerpiercer (Diglossa lafresnayii)
Spectacled Redstart (Myioborus melanocephalus)
White-banded Tyrannulet (Mecocerculus stictopterus)
Plain-colored Seedeater (Catamenia inornata)
Blue-backed Conebill (Conirostrum sitticolor)
Rufous Wren (Cinnycerthia unirufa)
Masked Flower-piercer (Diglossopis cyanea)
Sword-billed Hummingbird (Ensifera ensifera)
Gray-browed Brush-Finch (Atlapetes assimilis)
White-throated Tyrannulet (Mecocerculus leucophrys)
White-winged Becard (Pachyramphus polychopterus)
Barred Fruiteater (Pipreola arcuata) Male
Barred Fruiteater (Pipreola arcuata) Female
Rufous-naped Brush-Finch (Atlapetes rufinucha)
Glossy Flower-piercer (Diglossa lafresnayii)
Blue-backed Conebill (Conirostrum sitticolor)
Bar-bellied Woodpecker (Veniliornis nigriceps)
Black-chested Mountain-Tanager (Cnemathraupis eximia)
Buff-winged Starfrontlet (Coeligena lutetiae)
Tyrian Metaltail (Metallura tyrianthina) Female
Crowned Chat-Tyrant (Silvicultrix frontalis)
Great Sapphirewing (Pterophanes cyanopterus)
Sapphire-vented Puffleg (Eriocnemis luciani)
Tyrian Metaltail (Metallura tyrianthina) Male
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Glossy Flowerpiercer (Diglossa lafresnayii)
Spectacled Redstart (Myioborus melanocephalus)
White-banded Tyrannulet (Mecocerculus stictopterus)
Plain-colored Seedeater (Catamenia inornata)
Blue-backed Conebill (Conirostrum sitticolor)
Rufous Wren (Cinnycerthia unirufa)
Masked Flower-piercer (Diglossopis cyanea)
Sword-billed Hummingbird (Ensifera ensifera)
Gray-browed Brush-Finch (Atlapetes assimilis)
White-throated Tyrannulet (Mecocerculus leucophrys)
White-winged Becard (Pachyramphus polychopterus)
Barred Fruiteater (Pipreola arcuata) Male
Barred Fruiteater (Pipreola arcuata) Female
Rufous-naped Brush-Finch (Atlapetes rufinucha)
Glossy Flower-piercer (Diglossa lafresnayii)
Blue-backed Conebill (Conirostrum sitticolor)
Bar-bellied Woodpecker (Veniliornis nigriceps)
Black-chested Mountain-Tanager (Cnemathraupis eximia)
Buff-winged Starfrontlet (Coeligena lutetiae)
Tyrian Metaltail (Metallura tyrianthina) Female
Crowned Chat-Tyrant (Silvicultrix frontalis)
Great Sapphirewing (Pterophanes cyanopterus)
Sapphire-vented Puffleg (Eriocnemis luciani)
Tyrian Metaltail (Metallura tyrianthina) Male
Tree line level forest and home of the endemic Black-breasted Puffleg.
Visits
- 2006-12-23: This was the last stop on the way to the Quito airport. We walked around on the road for a bit where we saw plenty of cool looking mountain birds.
- 2023-08-01: Returning to the site 17 years later, now there is a visitor's center. We still didn't see the puffleg this time either.
Species Seen
Kingdom: Animals (49 records)
Phylum: Chordates
(49 records)
Class: Birds
(49 records)
- Order: Doves and Pigeons
(1 record)
- Family: Pigeons and Doves
- Eared Dove (Zenaida auriculata)
- Order: Hummingbirds and Swifts
(7 records)
- Family: Hummingbirds
- Shining Sunbeam (Aglaeactis cupripennis)
- Great Sapphirewing (Pterophanes cyanopterus)
- Buff-winged Starfrontlet (Coeligena lutetiae)
- Sword-billed Hummingbird (Ensifera ensifera)
- Sapphire-vented Puffleg (Eriocnemis luciani)
- Golden-breasted Puffleg (Eriocnemis mosquera)
- Tyrian Metaltail (Metallura tyrianthina)
- Order: Pelicans
(1 record)
- Family: Falcons and Caracaras
- Aplomado Falcon (Falco femoralis)
- Order: Perching Birds (38 records)
- Family: Cardueline Finches and Allies
- Hooded Siskin (Spinus magellanicus)
- Superciliaried Hemispingus (Thlypopsis superciliaris)
- Family: Cotingas
- White-winged Becard (Pachyramphus polychopterus)
- Barred Fruiteater (Pipreola arcuata)
- Family: New World Sparrows
- Yellow-breasted Brushfinch (Atlapetes latinuchus)
- Gray-browed Brushfinch (Arremon assimilis)
- Family: New World Warblers
- Spectacled Redstart (Myioborus melanocephalus)
- Black-crested Warbler (Myiothlypis nigrocristata)
- Family: Old World Buntings
- Rufous-collared Sparrow (Zonotrichia capensis)
- Family: Ovenbirds and Woodcreepers
- Rufous Spinetail (Synallaxis unirufa)
- Streaked Tuftedcheek (Pseudocolaptes boissonneautii)
- Family: Swallows
- Brown-bellied Swallow (Orochelidon murina)
- Family: Tanagers and Allies
- Cinereous Conebill (Conirostrum cinereum)
- Blue-backed Conebill (Conirostrum sitticolor)
- Capped Conebill (Conirostrum albifrons)
- Grass-green Tanager (Chlorornis riefferii)
- Black-capped Hemispingus (Kleinothraupis atropileus)
- Hooded Mountain-Tanager (Buthraupis montana)
- Black-chested Mountain-Tanager (Cnemathraupis eximia)
- Scarlet-bellied Mountain-Tanager (Anisognathus igniventris)
- Golden-crowned Tanager (Iridosornis rufivertex)
- Buff-breasted Mountain-Tanager (Dubusia taeniata)
- Band-tailed Seedeater (Catamenia analis)
- Plain-colored Seedeater (Catamenia inornata)
- Glossy Flowerpiercer (Diglossa lafresnayii)
- Masked Flowerpiercer (Diglossa cyanea)
- Family: Tapaculo
- Ash-colored Tapaculo (Myornis senilis)
- Narino Tapaculo (Scytalopus vicinior)
- Ocellated Tapaculo (Acropternis orthonyx)
- Blackish Tapaculo (Scytalopus latrans)
- Family: Thrushes and Allies
- Great Thrush (Turdus fuscater)
- Family: Tyrant Flycatchers
- White-throated Tyrannulet (Mecocerculus leucophrys)
- White-banded Tyrannulet (Mecocerculus stictopterus)
- Crowned Chat-Tyrant (Silvicultrix frontalis)
- Order: Woodpeckers, Barbets, Toucans, and Honeyguides
(2 records)
- Family: Piculets and Woodpeckers
- Bar-bellied Woodpecker (Dryobates nigriceps)
- Lita Woodpecker (Piculus litae)