ESPAÑOL Presento aquí una pequeña colección de fotos de aves que logré en este viaje por cuestiones laborales. Todas las fotos fueron sacadas un Sábado ya que pude extender mi visita un día más para poder visitar un are silvestre. Los sitios visitados son: Parque "El Lago" sobre la represa de Chongón, a unos 26 km al O. de Guayaquil, donde pasé la mayor parte del día. Sitio web: www.visitaguayaquil.com/78.gye Bosque protector "Cerro Blanco", recorriendo el sendero "canoa". Esta reserva protege Papagayo de Guayaquil que se encuentra en peligro de extinción. Sitio web: www.bosquecerroblanco.com Esta página incluye 53 fotos abarcando 15 especies de aves (de las cuales 9 no tienen registro en Argentina) Asimismo pude hacer mis primeras fotos de 4 especies que sí tienen presencia en Argentina. Gracias por visitar esta página - Alec Earnshaw Portal del sitio: www.fotosaves.com.ar ENGLISH Here are some bird photos taken during a business trip to Guayaquil. I was able to stay an extra day to visit a wildlife area. The sites are visited are: Parque "El Lago" nature park on the Chongón reservoir, some 26 km west of Guayaquil, spending most of the day here. Website: www.visitaguayaquil.com/78.gye Cerro Blanco protected forest, doing the "Sendero Canoa" trail, thus known as its shape is much like that of a canoe: setting off upstream along a trail constructed on the mountain side, crossing the stream, and then returning to the starting point along the opposite side of the stream. This reserve has so-called "tropical dry forest" and protects the endangered Guayaquil Macaw. It is a Birdlife 'Important Bird Area' (IBA) site. Check out excellent site at www.bosquecerroblanco.com Sadly it seems the Canoa trail is threatened to completely dissapear due to the expansion of a neighbouring quarry. If you have been there it is your duty to write to try and stop this. Please visit the website. This page includes 53 photos covering 15 bird speices (9 of which are not recorded in Argentina). I was also able to get my first photos of 4 species that range into Argentina. Many thanks for visiting this page - Alec Earnshaw Main page of this site: www.fotosaves.com.ar

"El lago" - Vista del lago - View of the reservoir

Entrada y cartelería de la reserva Cerro Blanco Entrance and billboards at Cerro Blanco reserve

Vistas del Sendero Canoa en Cerro Blanco Views of the "Canoa" trail at Carro Blanco

NON PASSERINES

Magnifiscent Frigatebird - Fregata magnificens


Ecuadorian Ground-Dove - Columbina buckleyi


Anó Chico - Smooth-billed Ani - Crotophaga ani


Anó Pico Surcado - Groove-billed Ani - Crotophaga sulcirostris


Red-masked Parakeet - Psittacara erythrogenys


Scarlet-backed Woodpecker - Veniliornis callonotus



PASSERIFORMES

FURNARIIDAE
Pacific Hornero - Furnarius cinnamomeus (Now split from Pale-legged Hornero - Furnarius leucopus)


TYRANNIDAE
Snowy-throated Kingbird - Tyrannus niveigularis


Masked Water-Tyrant (+ nest) - Fluvicola nengeta




HIDUNDINIDAE
sp.


TROGLODYTIDAE
Fasciated Wren - Campylorhynchus fasciatus

EMBERIZIDAE
Golden-bellied Grosbeak (aka Golden or Southern Yellow-Grosbeak) - Pheucticus chrysogaster


Saffron Finch - Sicalis flaveola valida


ICTERIDAE
Yellow-rumped Cacique - Cacicus cela


Scrub Blackbird - Dives warszewiczi


Other animals
Guayaquil squirrel (Sciurus stramineus)


Green Iguana (Iguana iguana)


DRAGONFLIES



BUTTERFLIES

PIERIDAE - Itaballia marana


NYMPHALIDAE - Hamadryas amphichloe


HESPERIIDE - Pyrgus brenda or P. orcus


LYCAENIDAE - Hemiargus sp.





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