#BirdsSeenIn2026, #Ecuador, #Manabi A lovely surprise punctuated the final half hour of birding at my friends' shrimp ponds - a Fork-tailed Flycatcher! Other beauties were the Striated Heron and White-cheeked Pintail

Manavisión - TV Channel with Live Streams from Portoviejo, Manabí Province, Ecuador Manavisión - TV Channel with Live Streams from Portoviejo, Manabí Province, Ecuador.

Local TV from Coastal Ecuador: Manavisión
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Based in Portoviejo, Manabí Province, Manavisión delivers regional programming including news, sports, talk shows, and entertainment.

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@biodiful.bsky.social 'How Humans Perceive Forests' -

Sent the survey link to friends via email, and they are replying back with👍thumbs up.

I'll bet lots of nature lovers here on bsky will do the same!
@petchary.bsky.social , @tonyrinaud.bsky.social
#Ecuador, #Manabi

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Rufous-headed Chachalaca, Pale-vented Pigeon, White-tipped Dove, Pacific Pygmy Owl

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Snowy-throated Kingbird, Thick-billed Euphonia, Mangrove (yellow) Warbler, Ringed Kingfisher

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Mystery bird (circled in blue) perhaps a White-tailed Kite? (Seems strange to be on the ground.)

Also: an 'undescribed' Turkey Vulture 'Choco' ebird.org/species/turv...
Other birds: White Ibis, Western Cattle Egret, Snowy E, Little Blue Heron,Tri-colored Heron

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A domestic Muscovy Duck showed up for a rainy-day birding outing.
The Limpkin ignored me and ambled between the palm trees.
Three ancient combines kept the egrets and herons busy.
Nearby a rookery of Ibis, egrets and herons decorated a cluster of trees.

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Best birds today: the handsome Cocoi Heron spearing a tilapia. Also, the migratory Sora (yay!)👍

Many migratory 'playeras' are MIA this year, so it was a relief to see two Lesser Yellowlegs! Also shown are the Cinnamon Teal and Black-necked Stilt.

#WorldWildlifeDay, #ecuador, #Manabi,

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Random recent 'incidental' birds...
Pearl Kite, Chestnut-collared Swallow, Black Vulture

#BirdsSeenIn2026, #Ecuador, #Manabi Southern Rough-winged Swallow, Palm Tanager,Yellow-tailed Oriole, Hook-billed Kite,

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Between and sometimes during rains today, more birds showed up for the #GBBC weekend.

Chivi Vireo, Ecuadorian Piculet, Giant Cowbird (near Shiny Cowbird), Gray-cheeked Parakeet (Brotogeris pyrrhoptera= yay!)

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The rains brought the MIA migratory Eastern Kingbirds, several months overdue!
Welcome back kingbirds!

The rains seemed to electrify the feathers of the Purple Gallinule.

A resident Yellow-rumped Cacique appeared - maybe it's considering nesting options.

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Rusty-margined Flycatcher, Buff-throated Saltator, Baird's Flycatcher and one Howler Monkey!

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Black throated Mango, Ringed Kingfisher,Spotted Sandpiper

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White-shouldered Tanager, Rufous-browed Peppershrike, Southern Rough-winged Swallow, Southern House Wren

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Not quite 1 kilometer walk to the Regeneration Field Institute took Lee and me three hours! New-to-her birds high and low!
Variable Seedeater, Chestnut-throated Seedeater, Pale-mandibled Aracari, White-browed Gnatcatcher (aka 'Perlita')

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Ecuadorian Trogon (Male y female), Ecuadorian Thrush, Ecuadorian Ground-dove, Orange-fronted Barbet,

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Large-billed Tern, Brown Pelican, Stilt Sandpipers, Short-billed Dowitcher

A friend from the USA has finished part one of her birding vacation. My friends helped show her a slice of this 'Choco-Tumbesian' area of western Ecuador.

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Yellow-bellied Seedeater, Scale-crested Pygmy-tyrant, Common Tody Flycatcher, Squirrel Cuckoo

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Olivaceous Piculet, Horned Screamer, Piratic Flycatcher, Elegant Crescentchest

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Common Potoo, Purple Gallinule (immature), Giant Cowbird,

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The first rains for this season have transformed the landscape!
Refugio de la Tomatera/Portoviejo
White-tipped Dove,
One adorable Burro (!)
Yellow-rumped Caciques are building nests!
Croaking Ground-dove

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Refugio de la Tomatera/Portoviejo
Streaked Saltator, Blue & White Swallow, Short-tailed Swift

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Refugio de la Tomatera/Portoviejo

Striped Cuckoo, Golden Grosbeak, Great Black Hawk,

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Shrimp Fest: Semipalmated Plovers (almost hidden) with Roseate Spoonbills, Great Egret, White Ibis y others...

Scrub Blackbird
Peregrine Falcon
Pacific Hornero

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Checking BirdsSeen Country List for matches: Wattled Jacana, Neotropic Cormorant, Chestnut-collared Swallow, Blue-gray Tanager

Good morning from Machalilla National Park.

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Squirrel Cuckoo, One-colored Becard, Giant Cowbird

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More wetland birds - Humedal la Segua/Chone

Masked Water-tyrant, Snail Kite, Limpkin, Glossy Ibis, Common Gallinule