Photographic compilation of birds found near Otorongo Expeditions jungle lodge

I have been spending a considerable amount of time silent in the forest waiting to photographically catalog the bird species that can be found within roughly one mile. There are some photos I put that are slightly blurry but you can at least tell what it is.

Many photos are taken as mixed foraging flocks of twenty species or more fly by. It is sometime hard to concentrate on a single bird because just next to it is another species and another and another and another until suddenly they are all gone. It is truly amazing the diversity of the avian fauna and quite tricky to even ID a species that many people call LBJ or little brown jobs

You know it is tough to get a good picture of a bird from a distance, especially when swatting at mosquitoes.

So here you have the latest photos first.

There are more coming!

Added April 26

Point tailed palmcreeper (Berlepschia rikeri)

Bananaquit (Coereba flavicola)

White fronted nunbird (Monasa morphoeus)

White chinned jacamar (Galbula tombacea)

Yellow billed jacamar (Galbula albirostris)

Chestnut crowned becard (Pachyramphus castaneus)

White winged becard (Pachyramphus polychopterus)male

female

Bare necked fruit crow (Gymnodermus foetidos)

Cinnamon throated woodcreeper (Dendrexetastes rufigula)

Thick billed euphonia (Euphonia laniirostris)male

female

White vented euphonia (Euphonia minuta)

Drab water tyrant (Ochthornis littoralis)

Yellow bellied dacnis (Dacnis flaviventer)

Grayish saltator ( Saltator coerulescens)

Oriole blackbird ( Gymnomystax mexicanus)

Southern rough winged swallow ( Stelgidopteryx ruficolis)

Dwarf tyrant manakin ( Tyranneutes stolzmanni)

Yellow crowned tyrannulet (Tyrannulus elatus)

White throated toucan (Ramphastos tucanus)

Many banded aracari (Pteroglossus pluricintus)

Green and rufous kingfisher (Chloroceryle inda)

Riverside(roadside) hawk (Buteo magnirostris)

Black collared hawk (Busarella nigricollis)

Striated heron (Butorides striata)

Cocoi heron ( Ardea cocoi)

Moustached antwren (Mymotherula ignota)

Black billed thrush ( Turdus ignobilis)

Spot breasted woodpecker (Colaptes punctigula)

Greater ani (Crotophaga major)

Spotted sandpiper (Actitis macularius)

Purple gallinule (Porphyrio martinica)

Yellow billed tern (Sternula superciliaris)

Large billed tern (Phaetusa simplex)

Ash breasted antbird (Myrmoborus lugubris)

Black and white antbird (Myrmochanes hemileucus)

Plumbeous antbird (Myrmeciza hyperythra)male

female

Scarlet macaw ( Ara macao)

Mealy parrot ( Amazonas farinosa)

Gilded barbet ( Capito auratus)

Snowy egret ( Egretta thula)

Buff breasted wren (Thryothorus leucotis)

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Turquoise tanager (Tangara mexicana)

Silver beaked tanager (Ramphocelus carbo)

Russet backed oropendula (Psarocolius angustifrons)

Wire tailed manakin (Pipra filicauda)

Masked Tityra ( Tityra semifasciata)

Black tailed Tityra (Tityra cayana)

Wedge billed wood creeper (Glyphorynchus spirurus)

Yellow tufted woodpecker (Melanerpes cruentatus)

Black fronted nunbird (Monasis nigrifrons)
White eared jacamar (Galbalcyrhynchus leucotis)

Squirrel cuckoo (Piaya cayana)

Glittering throated emerald (Amazilia fimbriata)

Tui parakeet (Brotogeris sanctithomae)
Maroon tailed parakeet (Phyrrua melanura)

Dusky headed parakeet (Aratinga weddelli)

Plumbeous kite (Ictinia plumbea)

Black crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)

Piratic flycatcher (Legatus leucophais)

Boat billed flycatcher (Megarynchus pitangua)

Social flycatcher (Myiozetetes similis)

Crimson crested woodpecker(Campephilus melanoleucos)

White tailed trogon (Trogon viridis)
Chestnut bellied seed finch (Oryzoborus angolensis)

Black faced antbird (Myrmoborus myotherinus)

Chestnut eared aracari (Pteroglossus castanotis)

Gray fronted dove (Leptotila rufaxilla)

Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura)

Lesser yellow headed vulture (Cathartes burrovianus)

Added April 5th 2013Crane hawk (Geranospiza caerulescens)

Smooth billed ani, (Crotophaga ani)

Pygmy kingfisher (Chloroceryle aenea)

Scarlet crowned barbet, (Capito aurovirens)

Plum throated cotinga (Cotinga mayana)

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White winged swallow, (Tachycineta alibiventer)

Palm tanager(Thraupis palmarum)

Blue and gray tanager ( Thraupis episcopus)

Yellow browed sparrow ,(Ammodramus aurifrons)

Troupial ,(Icterus icterus)

Short tailed parrot (Graydidascalus brachyurus)

Yellow headed caracara (Milvaga chima chima)

Solimoes Red eyed vireo (Vireo olivaceous solimoensis)

Yellow rumped cacique (Casicus cela)

Tropical king bird (Tyrannus melancholicus)

Sulphury flycatcher (Tyrannopsis sulphurea)

White Lored tyrannulet (Ornithion inerme)

There are a few I am waiting to identify still, the little brown ones are the toughest

I took a picture of the following but they were just too blurryViolaceus jay (Cyanocorax violaceus)Great kiskadee (Pitangus sulphuratos)Spot breasted woodpecker (Colaptes punctigula)Heard and viewed but no photo yetCinnamon Attila (Attila cinnamomeus)Purple throated fruit crowScreaming PihaLemon throated barbetVarzea schiffornisTody tyrantChestnut fronted macawCollared trogonSpix guanYellow ridged toucanGolden toucanetsLettered aracariFork tailed flycatcherHairy crested antbird (Rhegmatorhina melanosticta)Spot backed antbird (Hylophylax naevius)White shouldered antbird (Myrmeciza melanoceps )Rufescent tiger heron Tigrisoma lineatumThe list goes on and I will be adding to the photos as I go along catching them.I am in a bit of a rush, off to the forest tomorrow so we will see what else I can focus in on.Otorongo Expeditions