El Oro Parakeet, Buenaventura 30 January 2009.
Back to last January for a while again. I had the pleasure of visiting Buenaventura and another Jocotoco Foundation-run lodge there during a tour of Southern Ecuador. Apart from seeing some fabulous Choco Endemics (the Choco region is the wet forests of sw Colombia and nw Ecuador) like Club-winged Manakin and Long-wattled Umbrellabird we had the good fortune to see the rare El Oro Parakeet. This rare parakeet breeds in the December - January period apparently so we were there to see them at their nest sites. Buenaventura is a cracking place to go birding with a nice mix of Choco and Tumbesian birds - we also encountered Grey-backed Hawk over the forested hillsides one sunny morning. Great place; can't wait to go back..
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