Birds in Mindo

Katie and I went to Mindo, for a short overnight trip. A small town that has changed over the past twenty years from a sleepy rustic village without electricity to a hamlet overflowing with hostels and Quitenos on the weekends. We woke this morn at five, and went on a walk with a guide to see some feathered animals. I have never seen so many birds in one time, about three hours. We also went on a strange and scary "rafting" adventure with seven inner tubes tied in a star pattern, but I will let the more eloquent Katie Rose share that story on her blog.

This is all thanks to Julia our guide in Mindo.

1. turkey vulture
2. black vulture
3. swallow-tailed kite
4. spotted sandpiper
5. ruddy pigeon
6. white tipped dove
7. common potoo
8. golden headed quetzal- bright red and green
9. chocò toucan
10. smokey brown woodpecker
11. buff fronted foliage gleaner
12. pacific hornero
13. slaty capped flycatcher
14. black pheobe
15. dusk capped flycatcher
16. tropical kingbird
17. masked tityra
18. Andean Cock-in-the-rock, strangest bird I ever saw
19. southern rough tailed swallow
20. house wren
21. white capped dipper
22. bananaquit
23. golden tananger
24. white winged tananger
25. lemon rumped tananger
26. varaiable seedeater
27. yellow bellied seedeater
28. red faced spinetail
29. slaty antwren
30. scale crested pygmy tyrant