A birdwatching trip to Ecuador in October 2001 - Andes to Amazon! The humming bird here is the Andean Emerald. On the left is a view of Volcanes Illiniza (5,266m) and on the right is Gorzacocha, an oxbow lake off the Rio Napo, in the Amazon basin. All photos (C) Ruth Traynor.

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Butterfly - species not known. Photo: Ruth TraynorAmazon Basin Diary
13 - 16 October 2001
1. Introduction

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After we left the Pasochoa Reserve and the La Matilde Restaurant, we were driven to our overnight hotel in Quito, the small, quiet and comfortable La Rabida Hotel. We didn't arrive until 5 pm, and we spent a very pleasant part of the evening in a coffee house with our Tandayapa guide, Raphael, his wife Belin and their young son. Despite the shortage of time, we still managed a 'hotel balcony list' of five species - Great Thrush (6 of them), Black-tailed Trainbearer, Eared Dove, Sparkling Violet-ear and Rufous-collared Sparrow!

We left early the next morning for our inland flight aboard a 19-seater Beech aircraft for Coca, on the Rio Napo

   
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