FEATURED PHOTO Scarlet-and-white Tanager Chrysothlypis salmoni La Unión, Esmeraldas province, Ecuador. Male. It was a thrill to finally have a chance to photograph this scarce, local, and beautifully unique tanager, which is endemic to the Chocó region of northwestern Ecuador and western Colombia. It normally stays high in the canopy, making it hard to get any kind of a decent shot. Luck was with me this time when a group of two males and a female responded strongly to playback and landed in a bush only a few meters away. Photographed with a Canon 5D Mark III camera and a Canon 300mm f2.8 IS II lens with 1.4x III teleconverter on 10 May 2013. No flash. You can find previous featured photos here. Welcome to antpitta.com. I use this site to share my many photographs of wild birds. With over 3100 photos of more than 2400 bird species, it has also become one of the largest private collections of bird photos on the web. Most photos are from the Neotropics, though I do have a section for photos taken on other trips I have done around the world. I have been continually improving my gear and my skills over the last eight years. Many of the older shots are not the best quality, but I am always striving to improve them. Use one of the links below to explore the site, or scroll down a little to see the latest new photos I uploaded. Go to the Neotropical birds photo gallery Go to photo galleries from countries outside of the Neotropics Go to complete species index Go to recently-added photos Latest updates and blog: 2 June: Yesterday, Iain Campbell and I headed up to the Pululahua reserve north of Quito to try and get better shots of Rusty-breasted Antpitta. I found it here ten years ago, but only had really poor photos of it from an ancient film camera. It was nice to get some better shots. We also got photos of Black-eared (Western) Hemispingus, which we needed for the book - his are better than mine - that 500mm lens really helped! Rusty-breasted Antpitta. 23 May: I had to act as an unexpected guide yesterday in NW Ecuador when one of our guides had to return to Quito to be with his wife who had given birth to a baby girl a few days earlier than expected. It was a fun group from Arizona, and I managed to get a decent shot of a Pallid Dove at Mirador Rio Blanco in Los Bancos. Pallid Dove is a shy bird of western Ecuador and western Colombia. They come to feeders at Mirador Rio Blanco in NW Ecuador. 19 May: I take great pleasure in getting nice shots of obscure and rarely-photographed species, and today's highlights certainly qualify for that category: Stub-tailed Antbird, Striped (Western) Woodhaunter, and Choco Tapaculo. All are shy rainforest denizens that I found on a recent trip to extreme NW Ecuador. Other additions today include Tufted Flycatcher, Long-tailed Tyrant, Five-colored Barbet, Thick-billed Seed-Finch, Golden-chested Tanager, Beautiful Jay, Slate-colored (Andean) Coot, Great Egret, and Tyrian Metaltail. Stub-tailed Antbird, a scarce Choco endemic on NW Ecuador and W Colombia. Striped Woodhaunter, often split as Western Woodhaunter Choco Tapaculo; this bird just about ran over my feet and was too close to focus on to start with. 17 May: A few more birds from NW Ecuador today, Blue-headed Sapphire, Tropical Parula, and Maroon-tailed Parakeet. This male Blue-headed Sapphire was feeding in a flowering tree in a dry valley in northern Ecuador 14 May: I decided to make the male Scarlet-and-white Tanager the headline shot as of today, and also added a few other tanagers from my recent trip to extreme NW Ecuador. Some rather short trees were in fruit along the side of the very muddy track that I was on, allowing some nice shots of normally difficult canopy species like Gray-and-gold Tanager and Rufous-winged Tanager. Other birds for today are Choco Woodpecker, Mouse-colored Tyrannulet, Tropical Mockingbird, and White-thighed Swallow. Gray-and-gold Tanager from NW Ecuador, a uniquely patterned species characteristic of wet foothills of the Chocó bioregion. Those berries must have been tasty to bring this Rufous-winged Tanager, usually a canopy species, down to just a couple meters off the ground. 12 May: In honor of Mother's Day, here is perhaps the first shot taken in the wild of a female Scarlet-and-white Tanager - at least I would like to think that since I can't find any others on the web! I have a better shot of a male, but will leave that for a future update. It was with two males, so there's a good chance one of them was her son...  I'm also adding what are quite possibly the best shots available of two other rare species, Yellow-green Bush-Tanager and Green Manakin. Plumage is identical in both both sexes of these species, so there is a good chance at least one of these is a mother... The Green Manakin is of the subspecies litae, a Chocó endemic restricted to western Ecuador and western Colombia, and a possible future split. Yellow-green Bush-Tanager is a rare and local Chocó endemic. Female Scarlet-and-white Tanager from NW Ecuador Green Manakin - it may not look like much, but getting this photo truly made my day Another plain but rare bird, Yellow-green Bush-Tanager - I made a concerted effort to photograph it, so was quite pleased with the result 4 May: A morning at the Yanacocha reserve near Quito produced a few nice shots, none better than this male Purple-backed Thornbill, a species I've been trying to get for years. The Sword-bill was nice as well, along with Sapphire-vented Puffleg, Golden-breasted Puffleg, Great Sapphirewing, Buff-winged Starfrontlet, Ash-colored Tapaculo, Masked Flowerpiercer, Paramo Pipit, and White-browed Spinetail. I've also been making a lot of improvements to the hummingbird galleries, reprocessing some old shots and getting rid of some really crummy ones. Purple-backed Thornbill at Yanacocha in Ecuador - an especially hard one since it doesn't come to feeders anywhere that I know of. Sword-billed Hummingbird, a truly remarkable bird in so many ways. 14 April: Probably the last update for a while; this set is from cloudforest in NW Ecuador, including some I had been trying (and failing!) to photograph for years. Grass-green Tanager vies with Orange-breasted Fruiteater as the most colorful of the bunch, but I was very happy to finally get a shot of Capped Conebill. It's not super photo, but very hard to get since its tiny, stays in the canopy, never stops moving, and appears uniformly dark in many lighting conditions. My shot of the female wasn't so good and I didn't upload it, still looking for that one... Other shots today are Green-tailed Trainbearer, Tawny-bellied Hermit, Yellow-bellied Chat-Tyrant, Streaked Tuftedcheek, Uniform Treehunter, Sharpe's Wren, Tanager Finch, Tyrannine Woodcreeper, Wedge-billed Woodcreeper, Rufous-rumped Antwren, and Golden-winged Manakin. Grass-green Tanager, a startling Andean cloudforest species. This one was from near Tandayapa in Ecuador Male Capped Conebill, in the same spot as the tanager above. A very tough species to photograph. 13 April: I've added a large and diverse assortment of Ecuadorian species today ranging from the miniscule Brown-capped Tyrannulet to the huge Brown Pelican. Check the full list below, but a few others include Peruvian Pygmy-Owl, Slate-throated Gnatcatcher, Ecuadorian Trogon, Black-and-white Becard, Choco Toucan, Choco Tyrannulet, Mouse-colored (Tumbesian) Tyrannulet, Sooty-crowned Flycatcher, Gray Gull, Gull-billed Tern, Wandering Tattler, Necklaced Spinetail, and Lesser Nighthawk. A tiny Brown-capped Tyrannulet from the observation tour at Río Silanche in Ecuador This Brown Pelican was resting on a rocky outcrop near a beach in western Ecuador 10 April: Some birds from cloudforest in the Tandayapa area of Northwest Ecuador. The Cinnamon Flycatcher below had its mouth open but wasn't singing, so maybe a yawn? Or worse? There was also a pair of Powerful Woodpeckers nesting next to Tandayapa Bird Lodge, and I finally got a nice shot of the male, continuing a string of good luck with Campephilus woodpeckers recently. Maybe I should go look for some Ivory-billeds... Other shots I've uploaded over the last few days include Rufous-headed Pygmy-Tyrant, Smoke-colored Pewee, White-crested Elaenia, Blue-and-white Swallow, Collared Warbling-Finch, Elegant Crescentchest, White-edged Oriole, Crimson-breasted Finch, Gray-breasted Martin, Magnificent Frigatebird, Tropical (Tumbes) Pewee, and Black-and-white Tanager. Cinnamon Flycatcher from a cloudforest in Ecuador A male Powerful Woodpecker near his nest at Tandayapa in Ecuador 4 April: Another large update of Ecuadorian birds. I really liked the Savanna Hawk below taking off out of fallow rice field. A few other noteworth additions are Andean Potoo, Esmeraldas Woodstar, Blue Ground-Dove, White-backed Fire-eye, Piratic Flycatcher, Violet-bellied Hummingbird, Purple-throated Sunangel, Collared Inca, Little Sunangel, Blue-mantled Thornbill, Black-capped Sparrow, Red-masked Parakeet, Rufous-headed Chachalaca, Hooded Mountain-Tanager, and Black-and-chestnut Eagle. The complete list is in the recently-added photos section at the end. A Savanna Hawk takes off from a field in southern Ecuador 1 April: No joke, lots of great new shots from western Ecuador today: Yellow-tailed Oriole, Crimson-bellied Woodpecker, Scaly-breasted Wren, Plumbeous Hawk, Golden-headed Quetzal, Black-headed Antthrush, Golden-bellied (Choco) Warbler, Collared (Pale-mandibled) Aracari, Cattle Egret, Bronze-olive Pygmy-Tyrant, Gray-breasted Flycatcher, and Scarlet-backed Woodpecker. A Yellow-tailed Oriole glows in the late afternoon light along the Ayampe river in western Ecuador This male Crimson-bellied Woodpecker was double-tapping on a dead tree at the edge of the forest at Milpe in Ecuador A Scaly-breasted Wren sings its ethereal song at the Milpe reserve in NW Ecuador 30 March: Back to Ecuador! I've started working on the shots from last week. Collared Antshrike is my favorite (though I am always partial to birds with "ant" in their name). Others today include Pinnated Bittern, Pearl Kite, Glossy Ibis, White-cheeked Pintail, Scrub Blackbird, Pied-billed Grebe, Peruvian Meadowlark, Snail Kite, and Laughing Gull. A male Collared Antshrike from western Ecuador 29 March: I finally got up to date with my 2012 photos. Nothing spectacular added today, but Masked Gnatcatcher, Short-tailed Pygmy-Tyrant, and Rusty-collared Seedeater may have been the best of the bunch. 28 March: A few more from Costa Rica today. The Green Hermit below was shot with natural light (no flash), and I also really liked the angry Montezuma Oropendolas. Other new additions include a nesting Purple-throated Mountain-gem, Passerini's Tanager, Red-legged Honeycreeper, Carmiol's Tanager, Buff-throated Saltator, Nicaraguan Grackle, Green Ibis, Northern Jacana, Sungrebe, Crested Bobwhite, Orange-fronted Parakeet, Neotropic Cormorant, and Green Kingfisher. A Green Hermit feeding in the garden of the lodge at Bosque de Paz in Costa Rica Montezuma Oropendolas face off near the feeders at Arenal Observatory Lodge in Costa Rica 24 March: We had a fairly successful photo trip in western Ecuador this past week (with Iain Campbell and Cameron Cox), getting over 40 shots we needed for the West Ecuador book. It's the end of the rainy season there, and it was an especially wet one, so many desert areas are as green and lush as I have every seen them - though the exuberant vegetation makes it harder to get clean shots! I haven't started processing those shots yet, but still catching up with photos from earlier this year. Here's a set of nice shots from Costa Rica, highlighted by Thicket Antpitta - one of my favorites from that trip. Remarkably it was shot at 12800 ISO, but with a bit of image processing it came out quite nice. Others today include Ruddy-capped Nightingale-Thrush, Black Guan, White-crowned Parrot, Tropical Pewee, Dark Pewee, Tufted Flycatcher, and Great Kiskadee. Thicket Antpitta in some dense undergrowth at Arenal Observatory Lodge in Costa Rica Ruddy-capped Nightingale-Thrush from a Costa Rican cloudforest Black Guan - they were ridiculously tame at the feeders of the lodge at Bosque de Paz in Costa Rica 16 March: A nice, big update, the last for a while as I am leaving tomorrow for another week of getting photos for the Ecuador book. All shots from today are from Brazil as I catch up on last year's trips. Sapphire-spangled Emerald, Diademed Tanager, and Squamate Antbird were perhaps my favorites, but there is a lot of other good stuff today: Bay-chested Warbling-Finch, Half-collared Sparrow, Blue-billed Black-Tyrant, Ochre-faced Tody-Flycatcher, Buff-browed Foliage-gleaner, Chestnut-crowned Becard, Mouse-colored Tapaculo, Scaled Antbird, Star-throated Antwren, Streak-capped Antwren, Pin-tailed Manakin, Riverbank Warbler, Rufescent Tiger-Heron, Thick-billed Saltator, White-eared Puffbird, Yellow-legged Thrush, and Aplomado Falcon. A male Sapphire-spangled Emerald calls from a perch in Southeast Brazil Squamate Antbird is one of many beautiful antbirds in Southeast Brazil. They are hard to photograph in the dark forest understory, but I managed to find a gap to shoot through for this one. Diademed Tanager, a very distinctive member of the family found in southeastern South America 15 March: Some new tyrant flycatchers from SE Brazil today, including Eared Pygmy-Tyrant (below), Variegated Flycatcher, Serra do Mar Tyrannulet, Oustalet's Tyrannulet, Rough-legged Tyrannulet, and Whiskered Flycatcher. Eared Pygmy-Tyrant - one of the world's smallest birds at 7.5 cm/3 in. 14 March: I've been replacing some poor photos with better ones, such as the Scaly-throated Leaftosser below - the old shot was possibly the worst photo I had ever uploaded to this site, so it was nice to dump it. I also liked the Guayaquil Woodpecker, and I've added two new foliage-gleaners, Scaly-throated Foliage-gleaner and Buff-fronted Foliage-gleaner, as well as Orange-billed Sparrow and White-throated Spadebill. Scaly-throated Leaftosser, about to throw some leaves around A male Guayaquil Woodpecker at Milpe in Ecuador 13 March: A few shots today from Milpe: Ochre-breasted Antpitta, Immaculate Antbird, Yellow-throated Bush-Tanager, Wedge-billed Hummingbird, and Sulphur-breasted Flycatcher. Ochre-breasted Antpitta A male Immaculate Antbird with food 11 March: I spent a few days in and around Milpe in Northwest Ecuador getting shots for the book. My favorite was Spotted Nightingale-Thrush, which is now the featured image. More coming soon. 3 March: Been busy lately working on a lot of things, including hundreds of range maps for the Ecuador book. I finally found a few minutes to upload some shots today. I like the Red-necked Tanager (goes well with Green-headed!), and Streak-crowned Antvireo is quite a rare shot. Others are Frilled Coquette, Black Skimmer, Yellow-billed Tern, and  Wattled Jacana. Red-necked Tanager from Southeast Brazil A male Streak-crowned Antvireo from Costa Rica 23 February: A nice set today from Brazil including a shot of one of my favorite birds, the Green-headed Tanager, and a good White-chinned Sapphire. Other decent (if less colorful!) shots are Sharp-tailed Streamcreeper, Gray-headed Tody-Flycatcher, Gray-hooded Flycatcher, Planalto Tyrannulet, Yellowish Pipit, and Brown-chested Martin. Green-headed Tanager from Southeast Brazil A male White-chinned Sapphire 17 February: A few hours this morning in the Pululahua reserve just north of Quito got me this Azara's Spinetail. It was building a nest, a ball of sticks about the size of a basketball. Despite being a very common bird, I find them very frustrating to photograph! I hadn't gotten anything worth keeping before today. I also got a decent Tawny-rumped Tyrannulet and Plain-tailed Wren. Azara's Spinetail - this had been a "nemesis bird" for me as far as photos go! 16 February: Here are a few more shots from last weekend; on Sunday, Sam Woods, Tayler Brooks, and I went down to Silanche in the low foothills of NW Ecuador. We made a special effort to nail Brown Wood-Rail, a frustrating experience considering how well we saw the bird! I did get a shot, but not a great one so I won't showcase it here. Probably the best ones were Bicolored Antbird - one of several that were attending an antswarm and amazingly unafraid of us - and a Broad-billed Motmot spreading its tail. I thought it was interesting that it kept its central tail feathers, the ones with the rackets, together while doing so. Other shots were Slate-colored Grosbeak, Acadian Flycatcher, Acadian Flycatcher, Western Wood-Pewee, Slaty Spinetail, Rufous-fronted Wood-Quail, and one from Costa Rica, Zone-tailed Hawk. Bicolored Antbird at an antswarm in NW Ecuador Broad-billed Motmot 12 February: Carnaval is always a holiday time in Ecuador, so the office was closed and I spend a few nights in Tandayapa Bird Lodge trying to nail a few more photos for the western Ecuador field guide. There was a bit of excitement Saturday morning when the whole region was rocked by a magnitude 7 quake about 120 miles north in Colombia, though luckily no damage was done. It was rather rainy, but I managed to get out enough for some shots. My favorites are the Streak-headed Antbird, Powerful Woodpecker, and Chestnut-capped Brush-Finch below. A rare shot of Blue Seedeater was also nice, along with others like Slaty-capped Flycatcher, Spectacled Whitestart, Spotted Barbtail, Streak-capped Treehunter, Violet-tailed Sylph, and Blue-capped Tanager. Streak-headed Antbird - part of a recent four-way split of Long-tailed Antbird Powerful Woodpecker from Tandayapa Bird Lodge, the distinctive black-headed female. A perky Chestnut-capped Brush-Finch at Tandayapa Bird Lodge 7 February: A few new species today, including a rare shot of Buff-fronted Quail-Dove, male and female Fasciated Antshrike, and Black-bellied Hummingbird. Buff-fronted Quail-Dove Female Fasciated Antshrike 5 February: I added shots of both species of Caryothraustes today, including the Black-faced Grosbeak below. Other shots today are Yellow-green Grosbeak, Crested Owl, Variable Seedeater, and Great Curassow. Black-faced Grosbeak 4 February: Some new shots today, mostly from Costa Rica. This White-collared Manakin was one of my favorites - I caught it while he was doing a wing-snapping display. Others include Bronze-tailed Plumeleer, Panama Flycatcher, Chestnut-colored Woodpecker, Snowy Cotinga, and Chestnut-sided Warbler. White-collared Manakin 3 February: More Costa Rica photos today, including Yellow-winged Vireo, Red-throated Ant-Tanager, and Rufous Piha. The complete list of new additions is here. Yellow-winged Vireo, endemic to the highlands of Costa Rica and Panama 2 February: Today I uploaded a few shots from Costa Rica, including the Song Wren featured below. It's the kind of shot I love getting, and which was almost impossible a few years ago. Camera technology has improved so much recently - this was shot handheld, without flash, in dark rainforest understory at 3200 ISO. There is some noise, but it was easy to reduce the noise only in the background, and the noise on the bird is fairly inconspicuous. I also uploaded shots of Ochraceous Wren, Stripe-breasted Wren, Timberline Wren, Long-tailed Silky-Flycatcher, Speckled Tanager, Dusky Nightjar, and changed the featured photo to Snowcap. Song Wren from Costa Rica 1 February: Ed Krasny gave me some insight into the name of the Bare-shanked Screech-Owl: Could it be that the lower leg which is called the shank or tarsometatarsus (bone) and is directly above the feet of this owl does not have feathers as other owls do? Thanks Ed! 29 January: Here's a Bare-shanked Screech-Owl, one of my favorite birds from the recent Costa Rica tour. I haven't been able to figure out why it is named "Bare-shanked". Anyone have any ideas? Bare-shanked Screech-Owl, photographed at night in the highlands of Costa Rica 28 January: I just returned from a two week Costa Rica tour that was petty productive for photos. It was my first chance to use my new camera body, a Canon EOS 5D Mark III, which I quickly fell in love with! Noise levels are far lower than the 7D, and it also focuses faster and more accurately with my 300mm lens, especially noticeable with the 1.4x teleconverter attached. I'll be uploading shots from the trip over the coming trip, starting with the Sooty-capped Bush-Tanager below. Sooty-capped Bush-Tanager, restricted to the highlands of Costa Rica and western Panama 6 January: Finally caught up on all my Kenya photos, posting a mammal gallery. I can now return to the Neotropics for the forseeable future. 5 January: It's been a while since I've posted a photo here, so today I'll add a random one, a Thrush-like Wren from Brazil. I've also finally finished the last of the galleries of bird photos from my Kenya trip a few months ago. Thrush-like Wren from the Pantanal in Brazil 3 January: The seventh Kenya birds gallery is up. 31 December: Happy New Year! I've added another gallery of Kenyan birds. 21 December: A fifth Kenya birds gallery is now online. There are still at least a couple more to come, and I want to do a mammal gallery as well. 18 December: I'm back from a good tour in Argentina, though it wasn't terribly productive for photos. Today I uploaded the best ones, the Montane Forest Screech-Owl below as well as a juvenile Tropical Sceech-Owl, Burrowing Owl, and Andean Tinamou. Montane Forest Screech-Owl, restricted to the Yungas forests of Bolivia and northwestern Argentina 25 November: With only a few days between trips, I'm not going to have much time to do much on the site. Today I'm adding a few of favorite shots from my last few weeks in southern Ecuador: Pale-browed Tinamou (above; now the featured photo), Ochre-breasted Antpitta, and Scaled Fruiteater. Ochre-breasted Antpitta, the zarumae subspecies endemic to SW Ecuador Scaled Fruiteater, a unique and beautiful cotinga of Andean cloudforest  4 November: I've uploaded a few new shots today, mostly from Brazil, including Brazilian Ruby, White-throated Hummingbird, Glittering-throated Emerald, Bare-faced Curassow, Boat-billed Flycatcher, and Gray-chested Greenlet. Brazilian Ruby, a flashy hummer from SE Brazil  2 November: A fourth Kenya bird photo gallery is up, and I changed the featured photo to Gray Tinamou. 28 October: I've added a third bird gallery from my trip to Kenya in Aug-Sep. 27 October: A few updates today from Ecuador including the White-throated Quail-Dove below, as well as Speckle-breasted Wren, Buff-rumped Warbler, Stripe-throated Hermit, and Ecuadorian Thrush. White-throated Quail-Dove  24 September: The second Kenya birds gallery is now online. This will be my last update for a while, since I am about to leave on another trip to Brazil. 23 September: A small update today of various birds from Brazil and Ecuador, with a nice shot of a hunting Black-collared Hawk. Other additions include Plain Antvireo, Ecuador's first Southern Scrub-Flycatcher, and a Pallid Dove. This Black-collared Hawk was about to dive at a fish in the Pantanal   18 September: Three weeks in Kenya has given me a huge number of photos to work through over the next few months. It was a great trip, incredibly fun and unforgetable. I had always wanted to see those classic African scenes of vast savannas dotted with zebras, giraffes, antelopes, and lions. That was only a small part of the trip, as we also visited forests, acacia woodland, lakes, moorlands, and other habitats - that remarkable variety is what gives Kenya its famous diversity. The mammals were as much a draw for me on this trip than the birds, and I finally got to see leopard and cheetah, which were the two critters I most wanted to see in Kenya. I travelled with two colleagues from Tropical Birding, Sam Woods and Iain Campbell, and we rented a car and drove ourselves rather than book a guided tour. This is not for the faint of heart, but we managed without any incident, though there were some hairy moments. It also gave us a lot more contact with Kenyans from a variety of walks of life, not only those working in the tourist industry, which added another dimension to the trip. I will slowly be adding photo galleries in taxonomical order to the non-neotropical section of the website, starting with this gallery, covering Ostrich through birds of prey. 18 August: This will be the last update for a while, since I leave tonight for a trip to Kenya - vacation, not guiding! Very excited, can't wait to get there, but have a very long and rather annoying flight from Quito. Today I've added a few of my nicer shots from Brazil: Coal-crested Finch and Great Antshrike are featured below, though Rusty-backed Antwren and Red-crested Finch are also worth checking out. Also, I've uploaded some poorer shots of some very rarely photographed birds: Cone-billed Tanager, Gray-winged Cotinga, and Zimmer's Tody-Tyrant. Coal-crested Finch in cerrado habitat in central Brazil A Great Antshrike in the Pantanal. Oddly, this shot was taken from a canopy tower  15 August: I've been too busy to spend much time on the site, but here are a couple of shots from my trips in Brazil over the last month. I leave for Kenya in a few days, but may have time for another update. A Toco Toucan plays with its food in the Pantanal Swallow-tailed Hummingbird at Guapiassu in SE Brazil  Older posts Recently added photos: 2 June: Rusty-breasted Antpitta from Ecuador. 2 June: Black-eared (Western) Hemispingus from Ecuador. 23 May: Pallid Dove from Ecuador. 19 May: Stub-tailed Antbird from Ecuador. 19 May: Striped (Western) Woodhaunter from Ecuador. 19 May: Choco Tapaculo from Ecuador. 19 May: Olive-striped Flycatcher from Ecuador. 19 May: Tufted Flycatcher from Ecuador. 19 May: Long-tailed Tyrant from Ecuador. 19 May: Five-colored Barbet from Ecuador. 19 May: Swallow-tailed Kite from Ecuador. 19 May: Thick-billed Seed-Finch from Ecuador. 19 May: Blue-black Grassquit from Ecuador. 19 May: Golden-chested Tanager from Ecuador. 19 May: Beautiful Jay from Ecuador. 19 May: Slate-colored (Andean) Coot from Ecuador. 19 May: Common Gallinule from Ecuador. 19 May: Black-crowned Night-Heron from Ecuador. 19 May: Great Egret from Ecuador. 19 May: Tyrian Metaltail from Ecuador. 17 May: Blue-headed Sapphire from Ecuador. 17 May: Tropical Parula from Ecuador. 17 May: Maroon-tailed Parakeet from Ecuador. 14 May: Scarlet-and-white Tanager (male) from Ecuador. 14 May: Gray-and-gold Tanager from Ecuador. 14 May: Rufous-winged Tanager from Ecuador. 14 May: Choco Woodpecker from Ecuador. 14 May: Mouse-colored Tyrannulet from Ecuador. 14 May: Tropical Mockingbird from Ecuador. 14 May: White-thighed Swallow from Ecuador. 12 May: Scarlet-and-white Tanager (female) from Ecuador. 12 May: Green Manakin from Ecuador. 12 May: Yellow-green Bush-Tanager from Ecuador. 4 May: Purple-backed Thornbill from Ecuador. 4 May: Sword-billed Hummingbird from Ecuador. 4 May: Sapphire-vented Puffleg from Ecuador. 4 May: Golden-breasted Puffleg from Ecuador. 4 May: Great Sapphirewing from Ecuador. 4 May: Buff-winged Starfrontlet from Ecuador. 4 May: Ash-colored Tapaculo from Ecuador. 4 May: Masked Flowerpiercer from Ecuador. 4 May: Paramo Pipit from Ecuador. 4 May: White-browed Spinetail from Ecuador. 14 April: Green-tailed Trainbearer from Ecuador. 14 April: Tawny-bellied Hermit from Ecuador. 14 April: Yellow-bellied Chat-Tyrant from Ecuador. 14 April: Capped Conebill from Ecuador. 14 April: Grass-green Tanager from Ecuador. 14 April: Streaked Tuftedcheek from Ecuador. 14 April: Uniform Treehunter from Ecuador. 14 April: Sharpe's Wren from Ecuador. 14 April: Tanager Finch from Ecuador. 14 April: Tyrannine Woodcreeper from Ecuador. 14 April: Wedge-billed Woodcreeper from Ecuador. 14 April: Rufous-rumped Antwren from Ecuador. 14 April: Golden-winged Manakin from Ecuador. 14 April: Orange-breasted Fruiteater from Ecuador. 13 April: Peruvian Pygmy-Owl from Ecuador. 13 April: Harris's Hawk from Ecuador. 13 April: Tropical Gnatcatcher from Ecuador. 13 April: Slate-throated Gnatcatcher from Ecuador. 13 April: Ecuadorian Trogon from Ecuador. 13 April: Black-and-white Becard from Ecuador. 13 April: Choco Toucan from Ecuador. 13 April: Purple-throated Fruitcrow from Ecuador. 13 April: Southern Beardless-Tyrannulet from Ecuador. 13 April: Brown-capped Tyrannulet from Ecuador. 13 April: Choco Tyrannulet from Ecuador. 13 April: Ochre-bellied Flycatcher from Ecuador. 13 April: Black-tailed Flycatcher from Ecuador. 13 April: Mouse-colored (Tumbesian) Tyrannulet from Ecuador. 13 April: Vermilion Flycatcher from Ecuador. 13 April: Tawny-crowned Pygmy-Tyrant from Ecuador. 13 April: Sooty-crowned Flycatcher from Ecuador. 13 April: Red-eyed Vireo from Ecuador. 13 April: Yellow-bellied Seedeater from Ecuador. 13 April: Chestnut-throated Seedeater from Ecuador. 13 April: Gray Gull from Ecuador. 13 April: Gull-billed Tern from Ecuador. 13 April: Sandwich Tern from Ecuador. 13 April: South American Tern from Ecuador. 13 April: Least Sandpiper from Ecuador. 13 April: Semipalmated Sandpiper from Ecuador. 13 April: Lesser Yellowlegs from Ecuador. 13 April: Wandering Tattler from Ecuador. 13 April: Willet from Ecuador. 13 April: Whimbrel from Ecuador. 13 April: Black-necked Stilt from Ecuador. 13 April: Necklaced Spinetail from Ecuador. 13 April: Short-tailed Woodstar from Ecuador. 13 April: Purple-chested Hummingbird from Ecuador. 13 April: Lesser Nighthawk from Ecuador. 13 April: Peruvian Meadowlark from Ecuador. 13 April: Brown Pelican from Ecuador. 10 April: Cinnamon Flycatcher from Ecuador. 10 April: Powerful Woodpecker from Ecuador. 10 April: Rufous-headed Pygmy-Tyrant from Ecuador. 10 April: Smoke-colored Pewee from Ecuador. 10 April: White-crested Elaenia from Ecuador. 10 April: Blue-and-white Swallow from Ecuador. 6 April: Collared Warbling-Finch from Ecuador. 6 April: Elegant Crescentchest from Ecuador. 6 April: White-edged Oriole from Ecuador. 6 April: Crimson-breasted Finch from Ecuador. 6 April: Gray-breasted Martin from Ecuador. 6 April: Magnificent Frigatebird from Ecuador. 6 April: Tropical (Tumbes) Pewee from Ecuador. 6 April: Black-and-white Tanager from Ecuador. 4 April: Savanna Hawk from Ecuador. 4 April: Blue Ground-Dove from Ecuador. 4 April: White-backed Fire-eye from Ecuador. 4 April: Piratic Flycatcher from Ecuador. 4 April: Esmeraldas Woodstar from Ecuador. 4 April: Violet-bellied Hummingbird from Ecuador. 4 April: Purple-throated Sunangel from Ecuador. 4 April: Collared Inca from Ecuador. 4 April: Little Sunangel from Ecuador. 4 April: Violet-throated Metaltail from Ecuador. 4 April: Blue-mantled Thornbill from Ecuador. 4 April: Andean Potoo from Ecuador. 4 April: Black-capped Sparrow from Ecuador. 4 April: Red-masked Parakeet from Ecuador. 4 April: Rufous-headed Chachalaca from Ecuador. 4 April: Black-crested Tit-Tyrant from Ecuador. 4 April: Hooded Mountain-Tanager from Ecuador. 4 April: Giant Conebill from Ecuador. 4 April: Black-and-chestnut Eagle from Ecuador. 1 April: Yellow-tailed Oriole from Ecuador. 1 April: Crimson-bellied Woodpecker from Ecuador. 1 April: Scaly-breasted Wren (Southern Nightingale-Wren) from Ecuador. 1 April: Plumbeous Hawk from Ecuador. 1 April: Golden-headed Quetzal from Ecuador. 1 April: Black-headed Antthrush from Ecuador. 1 April: Golden-bellied (Choco) Warbler from Ecuador. 1 April: Collared (Pale-mandibled) Aracari from Ecuador. 1 April: Cattle Egret from Ecuador. 1 April: Bronze-olive Pygmy-Tyrant from Ecuador. 1 April: Gray-breasted Flycatcher from Ecuador. 1 April: Scarlet-backed Woodpecker from Ecuador. 30 March: Collared Antshrike (male and female) from Ecuador. 30 March: Pinnated Bittern from Ecuador. 30 March: Pearl Kite from Ecuador. 30 March: Glossy Ibis from Ecuador. 30 March: White-cheeked Pintail from Ecuador. 30 March: Scrub Blackbird from Ecuador. 30 March: Pied-billed Grebe from Ecuador. 30 March: Peruvian Meadowlark from Ecuador. 30 March: Snail Kite from Ecuador. 30 March: Laughing Gull from Ecuador. 29 March: Scissor-tailed Nightjar from Brazil. 29 March: Masked Gnatcatcher from Brazil. 29 March: Grayish Saltator from Brazil. 29 March: Red-shouldered Macaw from Brazil. 29 March: Blue-tufted Starthroat from Brazil. 29 March: Short-tailed Pygmy-Tyrant from Brazil. 29 March: Curl-crested Jay from Brazil. 29 March: American Kestrel from Brazil. 29 March: Blue-black Grassquit from Brazil. 29 March: Fiery-capped Manakin from Brazil. 29 March: Red-necked Woodpecker from Brazil. 29 March: Rusty-collared Seedeater from Brazil. 28 March: Green Hermit from Costa Rica. 28 March: Purple-throated Mountain-gem from Costa Rica. 28 March: Passerini's Tanager from Costa Rica. 28 March: Red-legged Honeycreeper from Costa Rica. 28 March: Carmiol's Tanager from Costa Rica. 28 March: Buff-throated Saltator from Costa Rica. 28 March: Montezuma Oropendola from Costa Rica. 28 March: Nicaraguan Grackle from Costa Rica. 28 March: Green Ibis from Costa Rica. 28 March: Northern Jacana from Costa Rica. 28 March: Sungrebe from Costa Rica. 28 March: Crested Bobwhite from Costa Rica. 28 March: Orange-fronted Parakeet from Costa Rica. 28 March: Neotropic Cormorant from Costa Rica. 28 March: Green Kingfisher from Costa Rica. 24 March: Thicket Antpitta from Costa Rica. 24 March: Black Guan from Costa Rica. 24 March: Ruddy-capped Nightingale-Thrush from Costa Rica. 24 March: White-crowned Parrot from Costa Rica. 24 March: Tropical Pewee from Costa Rica. 24 March: Dark Pewee from Costa Rica. 24 March: Tufted Flycatcher from Costa Rica. 24 March: Great Kiskadee from Costa Rica. 24 March: Masked Tityra from Costa Rica. 24 March: Gray-chested Dove from Costa Rica. 24 March: Melodious Blackbird from Costa Rica. 24 March: Broad-winged Hawk from Costa Rica. 16 March: Aplomado Falcon from Brazil. 16 March: Bay-chested Warbling-Finch from Brazil. 16 March: Half-collared Sparrow  from Brazil. 16 March: Blue-billed Black-Tyrant from Brazil. 16 March: Ochre-faced Tody-Flycatcher from Brazil. 16 March: Buff-browed Foliage-gleaner from Brazil. 16 March: Buff-throated Woodcreeper from Brazil. 16 March: Chestnut-crowned Becard from Brazil. 16 March: Diademed Tanager from Brazil. 16 March: Gray-headed Kite from Brazil. 16 March: Mouse-colored Tapaculo from Brazil. 16 March: Scaled Antbird from Brazil. 16 March: Squamate Antbird from Brazil. 16 March: Star-throated Antwren from Brazil. 16 March: Streak-capped Antwren from Brazil. 16 March: Pin-tailed Manakin from Brazil. 16 March: Riverbank Warbler from Brazil. 16 March: Rufescent Tiger-Heron from Brazil. 16 March: Sapphire-spangled Emerald from Brazil. 16 March: Thick-billed Saltator from Brazil. 16 March: White-eared Puffbird from Brazil. 16 March: Yellow-legged Thrush from Brazil. 15 March: Eared Pygmy-Tyrant  from Brazil. 15 March: Variegated Flycatcher from Brazil. 15 March: Serra do Mar Tyrannulet from Brazil. 15 March: Oustalet's Tyrannulet from Brazil. 15 March: Rough-legged Tyrannulet from Brazil. 15 March: Whiskered (Yellow-rumped) Flycatcher from Brazil. 14 March: Scaly-throated Leaftosser from Ecuador. 14 March: Guayaquil Woodpecker from Ecuador. 14 March: Scaly-throated Foliage-gleaner from Ecuador. 14 March: Buff-fronted Foliage-gleaner from Ecuador. 14 March: Orange-billed Sparrow from Ecuador. 14 March: White-throated Spadebill from Ecuador. 13 March: Ochre-breasted Antpitta from Ecuador. 13 March: Immaculate Antbird from Ecuador. 13 March: Yellow-throated Bush-Tanager from Ecuador. 13 March: Wedge-billed Hummingbird Ecuador. 13 March: Sulphur-rumped Flycatcher Ecuador. 11 March: Spotted Nightingale-Thrush from Ecuador. 3 March: Red-necked Tanager from Brazil. 3 March: Streak-crowned Antvireo from Costa Rica. 3 March: Frilled Coquette from Brazil. 3 March: Black Skimmer from Brazil. 3 March: Yellow-billed Tern from Brazil. 3 March: Wattled Jacana from Brazil. 23 February: Green-headed Tanager from Brazil. 23 February: White-chinned Sapphire from Brazil. 23 February: Planalto Tyrannulet from Brazil. 23 February: Gray-headed Tody-Flycatcher from Brazil. 23 February: Gray-hooded Flycatcher from Brazil. 23 February: Yellowish Pipit from Brazil. 23 February: Sharp-tailed Streamcreeper from Brazil. 23 February: Brown-chested Martin from Brazil. 17 February: Azara's Spinetail from Ecuador. 17 February: Tawny-rumped Tyrannulet from Ecuador. 17 February: Plain-tailed Wren from Ecuador. 16 February: Bicolored Antbird from Ecuador. 16 February: Broad-billed Motmot from Ecuador. 16 February: Brown Wood-Rail from Ecuador. 16 February: Slate-colored Grosbeak from Ecuador. 16 February: Acadian Flycatcher from Ecuador. 16 February: Western Wood-Pewee from Ecuador. 16 February: Slaty Spinetail from Ecuador. 16 February: Rufous-fronted Wood-Quail from Ecuador. 16 February: Zone-tailed Hawk from Costa Rica. 12 February: Streak-headed Antbird from Ecuador. 12 February: Powerful Woodpecker from Ecuador. 12 February: Chestnut-capped Brush-Finch from Ecuador. 12 February: Blue Seedeater from Ecuador. 12 February: Slaty-capped Flycatcher from Ecuador. 12 February: Spectacled Whitestart from Ecuador. 12 February: Spotted Barbtail from Ecuador. 12 February: Streak-capped Treehunter from Ecuador. 12 February: Violet-tailed Sylph from Ecuador. 12 February: Blue-capped Tanager from Ecuador. 7 February: Buff-fronted Quail-Dove from Costa Rica. 7 February: Fasciated Antshrike from Costa Rica. 7 February: Black-bellied Hummingbird from Costa Rica. 5 February: Black-faced Grosbeak from Costa Rica. 5 February: Yellow-green Grosbeak from Brazil. 5 February: Crested Owl from Costa Rica. 5 February: Variable Seedeater from Costa Rica. 5 February: Great Curassow from Costa Rica. 4 February: White-collared Manakin from Costa Rica. 4 February: Bronze-tailed Plumeleer from Costa Rica. 4 February: Panama Flycatcher from Costa Rica. 4 February: Chestnut-colored Woodpecker from Costa Rica. 4 February: Snowy Cotinga from Costa Rica. 4 February: Chestnut-sided Warbler from Costa Rica. 4 February: Black-throated Saltator from Brazil. 4 February: Streak-headed Woodcreeper from Costa Rica. 3 February: Yellow-winged Vireo from Costa Rica. 3 February: Mountain Thrush from Costa Rica. 3 February: Flame-colored Tanager from Costa Rica. 3 February: Red-throated Ant-Tanager from Costa Rica. 3 February: Black-cheeked Ant-Tanager from Costa Rica. 3 February: Slaty Flowerpiercer from Costa Rica. 3 February: Fiery-billed Aracari from Costa Rica. 3 February: Rufous Piha from Costa Rica. 3 February: Charming Hummingbird from Costa Rica. 3 February: Black-striped Sparrow from Costa Rica. 2 February: Snowcap from Costa Rica. 2 February: Ochraceous Wren from Costa Rica. 2 February: Stripe-breasted Wren from Costa Rica. 2 February: Song Wren from Costa Rica. 2 February: Timberline Wren from Costa Rica. 2 February: Long-tailed Silky-Flycatcher from Costa Rica. 2 February: Speckled Tanager from Costa Rica. 2 February: Dusky Nightjar from Costa Rica. 29 January: Bare-shanked Screech-Owl from Costa Rica. 28 January: Sooty-capped Bush-Tanager from Costa Rica.

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