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Ecuador, Mar 17, 2018

Saturday, Day 1 of birding in Ecuador, we drove to Reserva Yanacocha, then to Bellavista Cloud Forest Lodge, with stops along the way.
Andean Coot (AKA Slate-colored Coot) We stopped along the highway outside the Quito Airport next to a water retention pond.
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Andean Coot (AKA Slate-colored Coot)
We stopped along the highway outside the Quito Airport next to a water retention pond.

 Andean Coot with yellow on bill and red shield At Quito Airport water retention pond, Quito, Ecuador
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Andean Coot with yellow on bill and red shield
At Quito Airport water retention pond, Quito, Ecuador

 Yellow-billed Pintails On the far side of Quito Airport water retention pond
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Yellow-billed Pintails
On the far side of Quito Airport water retention pond

 Laughing Gull Quito Airport water retention pond
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Laughing Gull
Quito Airport water retention pond
Rufous-collared Sparrow Quito Airport water retention pond
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Rufous-collared Sparrow
Quito Airport water retention pond

 Rufous-collared Sparrow
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Rufous-collared Sparrow

 Eared Dove Along the road to Reserva Yanacocha, Pichincha province, Ecuador
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Eared Dove
Along the road to Reserva Yanacocha, Pichincha province, Ecuador

 We're on the right path!
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We're on the right path!
Great Thrush Along the road to Reserva Yanacocha, Pichincha province, Ecuador
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Great Thrush
Along the road to Reserva Yanacocha, Pichincha province, Ecuador

 Female Plain-coloured Seedeater) Along the road to Reserva Yanacocha, Pichincha province, Ecuador
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Female Plain-coloured Seedeater)
Along the road to Reserva Yanacocha, Pichincha province, Ecuador

 Male Plain-coloured Seedeater Along the road to Reserva Yanacocha, Pichincha province, Ecuador
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Male Plain-coloured Seedeater
Along the road to Reserva Yanacocha, Pichincha province, Ecuador

 Black Flowerpiercer Along the road to Reserva Yanacocha, Pichincha province, Ecuador
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Black Flowerpiercer
Along the road to Reserva Yanacocha, Pichincha province, Ecuador
Glossy Flowerpiercer On a feeder at Reserva Yanacocha, Pichincha, Ecuador
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Glossy Flowerpiercer
On a feeder at Reserva Yanacocha, Pichincha, Ecuador

 Shining Sunbeam at Reserva Yanacocha, Pichincha, Ecuador
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Shining Sunbeam
at Reserva Yanacocha, Pichincha, Ecuador

 Masked Flowerpiercer at Reserva Yanacocha, Pichincha, Ecuador
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Masked Flowerpiercer
at Reserva Yanacocha, Pichincha, Ecuador

 Masked Flowerpiercer at Reserva Yanacocha, Pichincha, Ecuador
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Masked Flowerpiercer
at Reserva Yanacocha, Pichincha, Ecuador
Male Great Thrush (with pronounced eye ring) at Reserva Yanacocha, Pichincha, Ecuador
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Male Great Thrush (with pronounced eye ring)
at Reserva Yanacocha, Pichincha, Ecuador

 Male Buff-winged Starfrontlet (foreground); Great Sapphirewing (background) at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
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Male Buff-winged Starfrontlet (foreground); Great Sapphirewing (background)
at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador

 Male Buff-winged Starfrontlet at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
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Male Buff-winged Starfrontlet
at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador

 Black-chested Mountain-Tanager at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
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Black-chested Mountain-Tanager
at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
Black-chested Mountain-Tanager at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
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Black-chested Mountain-Tanager
at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador

 Sapphire-vented Puffleg at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
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Sapphire-vented Puffleg
at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador

 Female Buff-winged Starfrontlet at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
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Female Buff-winged Starfrontlet
at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador

 Yellow-breasted Brushfinch at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
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Yellow-breasted Brushfinch
at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
Cinereous Conebill at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
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Cinereous Conebill
at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador

 Yellow-breasted Brushfinch at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
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Yellow-breasted Brushfinch
at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador

 Scarlet-bellied Mountain-Tanager (note blue 'petticoat') at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
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Scarlet-bellied Mountain-Tanager (note blue 'petticoat')
at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador

 Scarlet-bellied Mountain-Tanager at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
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Scarlet-bellied Mountain-Tanager
at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
Scarlet-bellied Mountain-Tanager at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
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Scarlet-bellied Mountain-Tanager
at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador

 Sword-billed Hummingbird at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
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Sword-billed Hummingbird
at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador

 Shining Sunbeam at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
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Shining Sunbeam
at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador

 Glossy Flowerpiercer at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
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Glossy Flowerpiercer
at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
Female Great Sapphirewing at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
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Female Great Sapphirewing
at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador

 Female Great Sapphirewing at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
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Female Great Sapphirewing
at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador

 Female Great Sapphirewing at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
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Female Great Sapphirewing
at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador

 Tyrian Metaltail at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
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Tyrian Metaltail
at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
Tyrian Metaltail at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
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Tyrian Metaltail
at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador

 Black-chested Mountain-Tanager at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
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Black-chested Mountain-Tanager
at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador

 Shining Sunbeam at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
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Shining Sunbeam
at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador

 Female Great Thrush (no pronounced eye ring) at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
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Female Great Thrush (no pronounced eye ring)
at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
Glossy Flowerpiercer at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
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Glossy Flowerpiercer
at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador

 Glossy Flowerpiercer at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
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Glossy Flowerpiercer
at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador

 Male Great Thrush at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
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Male Great Thrush
at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador

 Female Tyrian Metaltail at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
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Female Tyrian Metaltail
at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
Gray-browed Brushfinch (yellow-green back barely visible) at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
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Gray-browed Brushfinch (yellow-green back barely visible)
at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador

 Female Great Sapphirewing at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
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Female Great Sapphirewing
at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador

 Cinereous Conebill at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
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Cinereous Conebill
at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador

 Cinereous Conebill at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
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Cinereous Conebill
at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
Masked Flowerpiercer at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
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Masked Flowerpiercer
at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador

 Shining Sunbeam at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
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Shining Sunbeam
at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador

 Male Buff-winged Starfrontlet at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
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Male Buff-winged Starfrontlet
at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador

 Male (foreground) and female (background) Buff-winged Starfrontlet at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
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Male (foreground) and female (background) Buff-winged Starfrontlet
at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
Sword-billed Hummingbird at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
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Sword-billed Hummingbird
at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador

 Sword-billed Hummingbird at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
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Sword-billed Hummingbird
at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador

 Female Tyrian Metaltail at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
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Female Tyrian Metaltail
at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador

 Sapphire-vented Puffleg (in background) at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
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Sapphire-vented Puffleg (in background)
at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
Female Great Sapphirewing at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
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Female Great Sapphirewing
at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador

 Fuzzy shot of Sword-billed Hummingbird approaching Brugmansia flower at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
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Fuzzy shot of Sword-billed Hummingbird approaching Brugmansia flower
at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador

 Sword-billed Hummingbird inside a Brugmansia flower at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
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Sword-billed Hummingbird inside a Brugmansia flower
at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador

 Brugmansia flowers at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
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Brugmansia flowers
at Reserva Yanacocha, Ecuador
We took photos of the sign as we were leaving. It has cut-outs of the Sword-billed Hummingbird and the Jocotoco Antipitta, discovered here in 1998.
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We took photos of the sign as we were leaving.
It has cut-outs of the Sword-billed Hummingbird
and the Jocotoco Antipitta, discovered here in 1998.

 Cinnamon Flycatcher in the clouds at Bellavista Cloud Forest Lodge, Pichincha, Ecuador
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Cinnamon Flycatcher in the clouds
at Bellavista Cloud Forest Lodge, Pichincha, Ecuador

 Speckled Hummingbird at Bellavista Cloud Forest Lodge, Pichincha, Ecuador
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Speckled Hummingbird
at Bellavista Cloud Forest Lodge, Pichincha, Ecuador

 Buff-tailed Coronet at Bellavista Cloud Forest Lodge, Pichincha, Ecuador
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Buff-tailed Coronet
at Bellavista Cloud Forest Lodge, Pichincha, Ecuador
Buff-tailed Coronet flexing its wings when alighting at Bellavista Cloud Forest Lodge, Pichincha, Ecuador
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Buff-tailed Coronet flexing its wings when alighting
at Bellavista Cloud Forest Lodge, Pichincha, Ecuador

 Buff-tailed Coronet at Bellavista Cloud Forest Lodge, Pichincha, Ecuador
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Buff-tailed Coronet
at Bellavista Cloud Forest Lodge, Pichincha, Ecuador

 Cinnamon Flycatcher at Bellavista Cloud Forest Lodge, Pichincha, Ecuador
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Cinnamon Flycatcher
at Bellavista Cloud Forest Lodge, Pichincha, Ecuador

 Blue-winged Mountain-Tanager at Bellavista Cloud Forest Lodge, Pichincha, Ecuador
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Blue-winged Mountain-Tanager
at Bellavista Cloud Forest Lodge, Pichincha, Ecuador
Blue-winged Mountain-Tanagers at Bellavista Cloud Forest Lodge, Pichincha, Ecuador
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Blue-winged Mountain-Tanagers
at Bellavista Cloud Forest Lodge, Pichincha, Ecuador

 Buff-winged Coronet at Bellavista Cloud Forest Lodge, Pichincha, Ecuador
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Buff-winged Coronet
at Bellavista Cloud Forest Lodge, Pichincha, Ecuador

 Collared Inca at Bellavista Cloud Forest Lodge, Pichincha, Ecuador
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Collared Inca
at Bellavista Cloud Forest Lodge, Pichincha, Ecuador

 Female Violet-tailed Sylph at Bellavista Cloud Forest Lodge, Pichincha, Ecuador
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Female Violet-tailed Sylph
at Bellavista Cloud Forest Lodge, Pichincha, Ecuador
Sickle-tailed Guan along road outside Bellavista Cloud Forest Lodge, Pichincha, Ecuador
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Sickle-tailed Guan
along road outside Bellavista Cloud Forest Lodge, Pichincha, Ecuador

 Sickle-winged Guan along road outside Bellavista Cloud Forest Lodge, Pichincha, Ecuador
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Sickle-winged Guan
along road outside Bellavista Cloud Forest Lodge, Pichincha, Ecuador

 Golden-crowned Flycatcher at Bellavista Cloud Forest Lodge, Pichincha, Ecuador
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Golden-crowned Flycatcher
at Bellavista Cloud Forest Lodge, Pichincha, Ecuador

 Violet-tailed Sylph (rear view) at Bellavista Cloud Forest Lodge, Pichincha, Ecuador
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Violet-tailed Sylph (rear view)
at Bellavista Cloud Forest Lodge, Pichincha, Ecuador
Male Violet-tailed Sylph (front view) at Bellavista Cloud Forest Lodge, Pichincha, Ecuador
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Male Violet-tailed Sylph (front view)
at Bellavista Cloud Forest Lodge, Pichincha, Ecuador

Fawn-breasted Brilliant at Bellavista Cloud Forest Lodge, Pichincha, Ecuador
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Fawn-breasted Brilliant
at Bellavista Cloud Forest Lodge, Pichincha, Ecuador

 Male Gorgeted Sunangel at Bellavista Cloud Forest Lodge, Pichincha, Ecuador
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Male Gorgeted Sunangel
at Bellavista Cloud Forest Lodge, Pichincha, Ecuador

 Male (White-) Booted Racquettails at Bellavista Cloud Forest Lodge, Pichincha, Ecuador
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Male (White-) Booted Racquettails
at Bellavista Cloud Forest Lodge, Pichincha, Ecuador
Sapphire-vented Puffleg at Bellavista Cloud Forest Lodge, Pichincha, Ecuador
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Sapphire-vented Puffleg
at Bellavista Cloud Forest Lodge, Pichincha, Ecuador

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