Birds

Date taken: Mar 11 2025

Birdwatcher's House, Mindo, Pichincha Province.

Date uploaded: Jun 13 2025

Blue-winged Mountain Tanager (32)

Anisognathus somptuosus

Ahmad Shah

Date taken: Mar 11 2025

Birdwatcher's house, Mindo, Pichincha Province.

Date uploaded: Jun 13 2025

Comments (1):
Brian Morin: Perfect

Little Blue Heron (38)

Egretta caerulea

Brian Morin

Canada (Ontario)

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Details: immature, outside normal range

Kingston - This visitor from the US south hatched in 2024 and at the end of this year should be in adult plumage.

Date uploaded: Jun 10 2025

Comments (4):
Sue Bishop: great find and capture,Brian!
Ahmad Shah: Excellent find, well captured.

White-necked Jacobin (62)

Florisuga mellivora

Sue Bishop

Date taken: Mar 14 2025

Details: male, adult

#Pichincha Province
#Frutty Tours

Date uploaded: Jun 10 2025

Lineated Woodpecker (14)

Dryocopus lineatus

Sue Bishop

Date taken: Mar 14 2025

#Pichincha Province
#Frutty Tours

Date uploaded: Jun 10 2025

Comments (1):
Brian Morin: Good detail

Cliff Swallow (18)

Petrochelidon pyrrhonota

BobTour

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Date uploaded: Jun 8 2025

Comments (1):
Sue Bishop: Nice capture.

Tree Swallow (72)

Tachycineta bicolor

BobTour

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Date uploaded: Jun 8 2025

Barn Swallow (40)

Hirundo rustica

BobTour

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Date uploaded: Jun 8 2025

Song Sparrow (53)

Melospiza melodia

BobTour

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Date uploaded: Jun 8 2025

Red Knot (6)

Calidris canutus

Brian Morin

Canada (Ontario)

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Date taken: Jun 5 2025

Details: adult, summer plummage

Oshawa - McLaughlin Bay Reserve. These birds have a bright breeding plumage compared with the grey appearance in the fall. A few Knots show up along the shores of the southern Great Lakes in spring but normally just one or two birds at a time. Seeing a flock in Ontario is rare.

Date uploaded: Jun 8 2025