This website is meant for all the birders and ornithologists that are interested in sharing the latest news on birds and birding in Ecuador. The main goal of Aves Ecuador is to stimulate birdwatching in a serious and popular scientific manner. Resident birders and birdwatchers who visited Ecuador are highly encouraged to report their recent sightings, submit rare bird records, send in photos, publish news items, participate on ranking lists, and join the forum and discuss all kind of topics related to ornithology in Ecuador. The more people join watching and studying birds in Ecuador, the more information and knowledge will be available on its avifauna. Hopefully, this interactive website will popularize birding in Ecuador, thereby increasing bird and eco-tourism and eventually contribute to conservation of areas in this unique and bird-rich country.

Esta página web es diseñada para todos los pajareros y ornitólogos que están interesados en compartir las últimas noticias sobre pájaros y birding en Ecuador. En esta etapa, la página web esta en inglés principalmente. Nosotros esperamos presentar en un futuro la versión en español. El banco de datos de observaciones tiene la opción español.

Bird of the Month - Rufous-crowned Antpitta by Dušan M. Brinkhuizen

• Crescent-faced Antpitta at Papallacta

• Blue Grosbeak at Rio Canandé

• Endangered Royal Sunangel occurs in Ecuador

• The Oilbird “cave” near Chontal

• Recent rarities in Quito

• First record of Tumbes Tyrant for Ecuador

• First ever photograph of Black Tinamou in Ecuador

• Red-throated Pipit in Esmeraldas, first for South America