Ecuador Free Nature Walks

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Puffbirds of the Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador
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Welcome to Ecuador to all!!

We want explorers to come and head out to the forest for a walk, or for a visit to indigenous community conservation initiatives.

Ecuador Welcomes everyone to explore the Wonders of Ecuador!

We are willing to share our passion for nature free of charge.

Ecuador Free Nature Walks
Ecuador Free Nature Walks

Ecuador Free Nature Walks is a fancy way to LEARN more about local tourism initiatives, needed for a Kickstarter.

Ecuador offers all sorts of travel experiences in South America from Cultural Experiences Wildlife Encounters and Inspiring Landscaping Unique in the World.

Traveling Ecuador in ORGANIZED trips with all services are included which turn into a dream for a tourist business owner.

SOLO traveling, personal trips to explore destinations building a personal experience of moving into different travelers’ destinations, also become a dream for the local tourism service provider.

Ecuador Nature Guides from all over the country JOIN to share the local attractions FREE to promote tourism to locals and travelers.

The Free Nature Walks are Interpretive Walks of Nature and Conservation led by professional Tour Guides in the interpretation of the Tropical Nature of Ecuador.

The Nature Guides would have a great opportunity to showcase their culture, biodiversity, and the different services provided locally.

Offered activities during the visit would last approximately 3 – 4 hours.

Ecuador Free Nature Walks In all Regions

Ecuador Free Nature Walks
Ecuador Free Nature Walks

The Free Nature Walks are available in all Natural Regions in Ecuador.

  • Coast
  • Andes
  • Amazon
  • Galapagos Islands

Local Destinations to visit Free Walks

Ecuador Free Nature Walks
Ecuador Free Nature Walks

All the Destinations to explore locations have a wide range the options, check some are listed below:

  • Roadsides
  • Natural Reserves
  • Protected Forests
  • Tourism Entrepreneurship and
  • Places with Biodiversity

Participants are responsible for their personal needs.

Equipment to use in the Nature Walks

All the Equipment needed to use in Nature Walks for a better experience.

  • Binoculars (better if you bring)
  • Field notebook and pencil
  • Magnifying glass
  • Camera
  • Backpack (Light)
  • Hydration and Snacks
  • Comfortable clothes
  • Comfortable shoes
  • Rains gear
  • Sun protection

Activities during Free Nature Tours

The kinds of Activities during Free Nature Tours can be practiced.

Destinations for Free Nature Explorations

All different Destinations for taking a Free Nature Exploration.

  • Puerto Lopez
  • Mindo
  • Quito
  • Baeza
  • Tena
  • Coca
  • Misahualli
Ecuador Free Nature Walks
Ecuador Free Nature Walks

Learn more about the Orchids of Ecuador

Learn about all the Orchids of Ecuador before your Orchid Trip comes.


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Orchid of Ecuador
Learn more about the Orchids of Ecuador
The Orchids of the Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador.
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We have listed the most Common Orchid Genera to be encounter herein in Ecuador.

Learn about the exciting world of the Orchids of Ecuador just to give you an idea number: In Ecuador 1 out of 10 plants is an Orchid.

The Orchids of Ecuador can be found almost everywhere, from the coastline in the Pacific passing snowline of the Andes to reach vast Amazon Lowlands.

Learn more about the Orchids of Ecuador, each bioregion in Ecuador is home to several hundreds of Orchids.

The Orchids of Ecuador have several favorite bioregions, orchids have a preference for the wet Andes: The Foothills and Montane of each side of the Andes.

The Bioregions of Ecuador

Principal Generas of Orchids found in Ecuador

Learn more about the Orchids of Ecuador: Orchid of Ecuador
Principal Generas of Orchids found in Ecuador: How to find Orchids during your Trip?

Learn more about the Orchids of Ecuador in the list below, the information provided is genera name, province where was seen, and the observer you click on to meet the explorer.

All the genera in here had been produced in the Citizen Science Project in INaturalist: Orchids of Ecuador.

At this moment this project has 4,796 Observations made by 833 field observers, this community of 250 Identifiers had been able to identify 477 Species of Ecuadorian Orchids.

The Generas are organized alphabetically. We will continue updating and help you to find more Orchids in Ecuador.

Acianthera

Acianthera found living in Ecuador. Learn more about the Orchids of Ecuador
Acianthera found living in Ecuador. Quito, Pichincha. Ecuador. All Rights Reserved. @rudygelis

Aganisia

Aganisia white flowers in Ecuador. Learn more about the Orchids of Ecuador
Aganisia found living in Ecuador. Shushufindi, Sucumbios. Ecuador. All Rights Reserved. @faustocornejo1

Altensteinia

Altensteinia wildflowers found in Ecuador. Learn more about the Orchids of Ecuador
Altensteinia found living in Ecuador. Riobamba, Chimborazo. Ecuador. All Rights Reserved. @cisnerosheredia

Anathallis

Anathallis Wildflowers living in South America
Anathallis found living in Ecuador. Mindo, Pichincha. Ecuador. All Rights Reserved. @diegopatino

Andinia

Andinia blossoms from Ecuador
Andinia found living in Ecuador. Los Bancos, Pichincha. Ecuador. All Rights Reserved. @rudygelis

Arundina (Exotic)

Arundina Exotic Asian orchid
Arundina found living in Ecuador. Via a Canoayacu, Tena, Napo, EC. All Rights Reserved. @aymetanguila

Benzingia

Benzingia hyperreal Flowers in Ecuador
Benzingia found in Puyo, Pastaza, Ecuador. All Rights Reserved. @linethalexandragonzlezmora

Brassia

Brassia Spider Orchid wildflowers
Brassia found living in Ecuador. Los Bancos, Pichincha. Ecuador. All Rights Reserved. @rudygelis

Catasetum

Catasetum
Catasetum found living in Ecuador. Shiripuno Amazon Lodge, Sucumbíos, Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @fernandovaca

Caucaea

Caucaea
Caucaea found living in Ecuador. Bosque Protector Umbria, Cotopaxi, Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @naturesebas

Cattleya

Cattleya Purple and Pink in the canopy in Ecuador.
Cattleya found living in Ecuador. Tarapoa, Sucumbíos, Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @jujurenoult

Chaubardia

Chaubardia Pink and Yellow wildflowers in Ecuador.
Chaubardia found living in Ecuador. Mera, Pastaza, Ecuador, Parque Nacional Llanganates. All Rights Reserved. @linethalexandragonzlezmora

Chondroscaphe

Chondroscaphe
Chondroscaphe found living in Ecuador. Tulcan, Carchi, Ecuador. All Rights Reserved. @jorgebrito

Cleistes

Cleistes blooming Lightly violet and yellow.
Cleistes found living in Ecuador.  Shell, Pastaza, Ecuador. All Rights Reserved. @arethusa

Comparettia

Comparettia rich purple in Ecuador
Comparettia found living in Ecuador.  Lluvia de Oro, Mindo, Pichincha, Ecuador. All Rights Reserved. @wladimirpatino

Cranichis

Cranichis White with tiny dotted wildflower in Ecuador.
Cranichis found living in Ecuador.  Papallacta, Napo, Ecuador. All Rights Reserved. @rudygelis

Cyclopogon

Cyclopogon stalk with yellow wild blossoms in Ecuador.
Cyclopogon found living in Ecuador.  Papallacta, Napo, Ecuador. All Rights Reserved. @holgerbeck

Cycnoches

Cycnoches reaching for the pink in Ecuador.
Cycnoches found living in Ecuador.  Found by Daniel King. La Selva Lodge, Sucumbios, Ecuador. All Rights Reserved. @fernandovaca

Cyrtochilum

Cyrtochilum with yellow flakes and brown dotting in Ecuador.
Cyrtochilum found living in Ecuador.  Papallacta, Napo, Ecuador. All Rights Reserved. @rudygelis

Dichaea

Dichaea
Dichaea found living in Ecuador.  Chingual, Sucumbios, Ecuador. All Rights Reserved. @cristinarestrepo

Dimerandra

Dimerandra
Dimerandra found living in Ecuador.  Maicito, Manabi, Ecuador. All Rights Reserved. @natalylara

Dracula

Endemic Dracula for Southern Ecuador.
Dracula found living in Ecuador.  Guaquichuma, Loja, Ecuador. All Rights Reserved. @rudygelis

Dressleria

Dressleria lemon green in Ecuador.
Dressleria found living in Ecuador.  Maquipucuna Reserve, Nagegalito, Pichincha, Ecuador. All Rights Reserved. @holgerbecker

Dresslerella

Dresslerella
Dresslerella found living in Ecuador.  Valladolid, Palanda, Zamora Chinchipe, Ecuador. Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @paola_om

Elleanthus

Elleanthus light purple with yellow blossom in Ecuador.
Elleanthus found living in Ecuador. Laguna de Cuicocha, Imbabura, Ecuador. All Rights Reserved. @david_torres

Epidendrum

Epidendrum
Epidendrum found living in Ecuador. Valle de Tandayapa, Pichincha. Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @naturesebas

Eriopsis

Eriopsis with dark red dots on the lips in Ecuador.
Eriopsis found living in Ecuador. Masphi Private Reserve, Pichincha. Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @christiansaa

Erycina

Erycina with light brown splash in the center in Ecuador.
Erycina found living in Ecuador.  Piñas, El Oro, Ecuador. All Rights Reserved. @rudygelis

Euryblema

Euryblema with dark red and cream petals blossom in Ecuador
Euryblema found living in Ecuador. Masphi Private Reserve, Pichincha. Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @naturesebas

Fernandezia

Fernandezia
Fernandezia found living in Ecuador. Reserva Ecologica El Angel, Carchi. Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @pako_limon

Gomphichis

Gomphichis
Gomphichis found living in Ecuador. Malacatosl, Loja. Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @kantoborgy

Gongora

Gongora
Gongora found living in Ecuador. Shiripuno Amazon Lodge, Orellana. Ecuador. All Rights Reserved. @fernandovaca

Govenia

Govenia with light spray of purple on cream blossom in Ecuador.
Govenia found living in Ecuador. Reserva Geobotanica Pululahua, Pichincha. Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @kstenman

Habenaria

Habenaria white and yellow with hairy spikes in Ecuador.
Habenaria found living in Ecuador. El Pailon, Carchi. Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @jorgebrito

Houlletia

Houlletia
Houlletia found living in Ecuador. Cascada de San Rafel, Cayambe-Coca National Park. Sucumbios. Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @fernandovaca

Huntleya

Huntleya with eyes, mostly brown and white in Ecuador
Huntleya found living in Ecuador. Chingual, Sucumbios. Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @cristinarestrepo

Ionopsis

Ionopsis
Ionopsis found living in Ecuador. San Tadeo, Pichincha. Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @rudygelis

Kefersteinia

Kefersteinia
Kefersteinia found living in Ecuador. El Pailon, Carchi. Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @jorgebrito

Koellensteinia

Koellensteinia
Koellensteinia found living in Ecuador. La Selva Lodge, Sucumbios. Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @naturesebas

Laelia

Laelia
Laelia found living in Ecuador. Sani Lodge, Sucumbios. Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @rob21

Lepanthes

Lepanthes
Lepanthes found living in Ecuador. Mindo, Pichincha, Ecuador. Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @benjamin_patino

Ligeophila

Ligeophila
Ligeophila found living in Ecuador. Shiripuno Amazon Lodge, Orellana. Ecuador. All Rights Reserved. @fernandovaca

Lockhartia

Lockhartia
Lockhartia found living in Ecuador. Mindo, Pichincha, Ecuador. Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @benjamin_patino

Lycaste

Lycaste
Lycaste found living in Ecuador. Tena, Napo, Ecuador. Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @darwin20

Lycomormium

Lycomormium
Lycomormium found living in Ecuador. BosqueProtector El Chontal, Imbabura, Ecuador. Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @alexwcranston

Malaxis

Malaxis
Malaxis found living in Ecuador. Reserva Santa Lucia, Pichincha, Ecuador. Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @holgerbeck

Masdevallia

Masdevallia
Masdevallia found living in Ecuador. San Miguel de los Bancos, Pichincha, Ecuador. Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @wladimirpatino

Maxillaria

Maxillaria
Maxillaria found living in Ecuador. Tapichalaca Reserve, Zamora Chinchipe, Ecuador. Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @leslie_flint

Miltoniopsis

Miltoniopsis
Miltoniopsis found living in Ecuador.  La Ciudad Perdida. Nangaritza, Zamora Chinchipe, Ecuador. Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @paola_om

Monophyllorchis

Monophyllorchis
Monophyllorchis found living in Ecuador.  Talag, Tena, Napo, Ecuador. Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @oldschoolproduce

Muscarella

Muscarella
Muscarella found living in Ecuador. Nanegal, Pichincha, Ecuador. Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @nataliaescobar

Oncidium

Oncidium
Oncidium found living in Ecuador. Nanegal, Pichincha, Ecuador. Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @javierarias29

Pelexia

Pelexia
Pelexia found living in Ecuador. Baños, Tungurahua, Ecuador. Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @ripleyrm

Pescatoria

Pescatoria
Pescatoria found living in Ecuador. Sucre, Reserva Jama Coaque, Manabi Ecuador. Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @rebry

Phaius (Exotic)

Phaius
Phaius found living in Ecuador. Puyo, Pastaza Ecuador. Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @less-moya

Phragmipedium

Phragmipedium
Phragmipedium found living in Ecuador. Lyarina Lodge, Pto Misahualli, Napo. Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @elizabethswanson

Platystele

Platystele
Platystele found living in Ecuador. Mindo, Pichincha. Ecuador. All Rights Reserved. @benjamin_patino

Plectrophora

Plectrophora
Plectrophora found living in Ecuador. Shiripuno Amazon Lodge, Orellana. Ecuador. All Rights Reserved. @fernandovaca

Pleurothallis

Pleurothallis
Pleurothallis found living in Ecuador. Nanegalito, Pichincha. Ecuador. All Rights Reserved. @holgerbeck

Polystachya

Polystachya
Polystachya found living in Ecuador. Zamora, Zamora Chinchipe. Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @fernandovaca

Ponthieva

Ponthieva
Ponthieva found living in Ecuador. Parque Nacional Sangay, Morona Santiago. Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @arethusa

Porphyrostachys

Porphyrostachys
Porphyrostachys found living in Ecuador. Alausi, Chimborazo. Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @cisnerosheredia

Porroglossum

Porroglossum
Porroglossum found living in Ecuador. Alausi, Chimborazo. Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @ecuadornaturetours

Prosthechea

Prosthechea
Prosthechea found living in Ecuador. Baños, Tungurahua. Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @estebansurez

Psychopsis

Psychopsis
Psychopsis found living in Ecuador. Baños, Tungurahua. Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @ryan_l_lynch

Rodriguezia

Rodriguezia
Rodriguezia found living in Ecuador. Rio Piatua, Napo. Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @morganstickrod

Scaphosepalum

Scaphosepalum
Scaphosepalum found living in Ecuador. Lloa, Pichincha. Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @rudygelis

Selenipedium

Selenipedium
Selenipedium found living in Ecuador. Tiputini Biological Station, Parque Nacional Yasuni, Orellana. Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @cynthia_gvillegas

Sobralia

Sobralia
Sobralia found living in Ecuador. Mindo, Pichincha. Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @rudygelis

Stanhopea

Stanhopea
Stanhopea found living in Ecuador. Finca El Piura, Sucua, Morona Santiago. Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @ricardofsy

Stelis

Stelis
Stelis found living in Ecuador. Chalguayacu Alto, García Moreno, Imbabura. Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @arethusa

Sudamerlycaste

Sudamerlycaste
Sudamerlycaste found living in Ecuador. Cotalo, Tungurahua. Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @arethusa

Telipogon

Telipogon
Telipogon found living in Ecuador. Oyacachi, Napo. Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @luisyupa

Trichoceros

Trichoceros
Trichoceros found living in Ecuador. Cacha Machangara, Riobamba, Chimborazo. Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @ripleyrm

Trichopilia

Trichopilia
Trichopilia found living in Ecuador. Nanegalito, Distrito Metropolitano de Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @naturesebas

Trichosalpinx

Trichosalpinx
Trichosalpinx found living in Ecuador. Reserva Bellavista, Distrito Metropolitano de Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @ecuadornaturetours

Trizeuxis

Trizeuxis
Trizeuxis found living in Ecuador. Shiripuno Amazon Lodge, Orellana. Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @blackdogto

Vanilla

Vanilla
Vanilla found living in Ecuador. Puyo, Pastaza. Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @carlos_andres_silva_aldas

Warczewiczella

Warczewiczella
Warczewiczella found living in Ecuador. Yuturi, Orellana. Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @lisakoetke

Xylobium

Xylobium
Xylobium found living in Ecuador. Giripuno Amazon Lodge, Orellana. Ecuador All Rights Reserved. @fernandovaca

Zelenkoa

Zelenkoa
Zelenkoa found living in Ecuador. Machalilla, Manabi, Ecuador. All Rights Reserved. @rossy4

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Puffbirds of the Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador

The Puffbirds of the Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador are an intriguing bird family.

Puffbirds of the Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador
Collared Puffbird secretive sit at mid-canopy level, found in the Shiripuno Amazon Lodge.

Puffbirds of the Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador are a large head and short tail, with a chunky body,  Puffbirds with their loose, abundant plumage and short tails make them look stout and Puffy, giving rise to their English name.

The Puffbirds, Nunbirds, Nunlets, and Monklets all are relatives, they are present all around the Amazon Basin in all habitats.

Watch Video of White-necked Puffbird in the Yasuni National Park.

Puffbirds of the Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador are tropical tree-dwelling insectivorous birds, sit-and-wait hunters, perching unmoving for long periods while watching for insect prey. As well as arthropods, they may eat small lizards and plant material.

Puffbirds of the Amazon Rainforest Nuclear DNA Analysis Says…

Puffbirds and Jacamars were sister groups, indicates that the Nunlets (genus Nonnula) diverged from the common ancestor of other puffbirds an estimated 25 million years ago, with the genus Malacoptila the next to branch off around 19.1 million years ago in the Miocene epoch.

Nesting of the Puffbirds in the Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador

Puffbirds nesting sites are burrows in the dirt, rotten wood or termite mounds, lay clutches of two or three round, small, and white eggs. The incubation is around two weeks by both parents. Born blind and naked, crawl to the entrance of the nest burrow at one or two days of age. Adults feed them partly chewed insects.

We have the chance to listen to most the following species of Puffbirds Nunbirds, Nunlet, and Monklet during Our Birding Trips in the Rainforest.

Puffbirds of the Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador
White-chested Puffbird found in the Yasuni Biosphere Reserve.

Listen to Twelve Species of Puffbirds and relatives living in the Rainforest in Ecuador

The Puffbirds are one of the most silent birds in the Neotropics and vocalize very rarely. When calling they mostly do so at dawn and dusk. It consists of repeated and high-pitched whistles.

The Nunbirds are the most vocal of the family; they have a wide repertoire of calls and often give very loud shouts.

1.- White-necked Puffbird (Notharchus hyperrhynchus)

The White-necked Puffbird is one of the largest, most widespread members of the puffbird family, and frequents the forest canopy. With its massive bill, it feeds on large insects, frogs, and lizards.

2.- Pied Puffbird (Notharchus tectus)

Pied Puffbird is the smallest of the black and white puffbirds, a small-sized, mainly black-and-white puffbird, rare in the canopy of Varzea and to lesser extend Terra Firme Forests where it seems to favor forest edges, tall second growth, clearings, and plantations.

3.- Chestnut-capped Puffbird (Bucco macrodactylus)

The Chestnut-capped Puffbird is a small size with bright chestnut cap, and black mask and breast band distinguish it from all other puffbirds. Found in pairs around “edge”, along streams and clearings in the seasonally flooded forest. Seen perched in the mid-story for long periods of time. It forages by sallying out and grabbing insects.

5.- Collared Puffbird (Bucco capensis)

Collared Puffbird has a very large head and short tail, with a chunky body. Like other puffbirds, this species employs a sit-and-wait strategy for hunting, which it uses to catch insects and small vertebrate, which has earned it nicknames such as “lazy bird” and “sleeper”

6.- White-chested Puffbird (Malacoptila fusca)

White-chested Puffbird is inconspicuous and difficult to see. forage in the understory by sallying out to catch insects from low vegetation or the ground. When not foraging, they often sit immobile for long periods of time. The song is mellow descending trill, and the call is a high descending whistle, peeeuuuuu.

7.- Lanceolated Monklet (Micromonacha lanceolata)

The Lanceolated Monklet is small, distinctive puffbird, seldom-seen, and oft-overlooked rainforest inhabitant. It is associating loosely with sub-canopy flocks, perching quietly, often without moving for extended periods.

8.- Brown Nunlet (Nonnula brunnea)

Brown Nunlet is rusty brown with darker upperparts with red orbital skin, confined to a very small range within western Amazonia, occurs in humid lowland terra firme forest, old second growth.

9.- Black-fronted Nunbird (Monasa nigrifrons)

The Black-fronted is the only Nunbird with all-dark plumage and an orange bill. Flocks in groups, perch conspicuously and regularly erupt choruses of whistles and churrs. It forages arthropods at lower levels in open floodplain forest, floodplain forest edge, bamboo, and riverine secondary growth. Nests in a burrow in a bank or in the ground.

10.- White-fronted Nunbird (Monasa morphoeus)]

White-fronted Nunbird is glossy black or gray-black with a stout red-orange bill, white face markings on the cere,  Resident in the midstory and subcanopy of Terra-firme forest, frequently found in mixed passerine flocks, a good indication of a nearby flock.

11.- Yellow-billed Nunbird (Monasa flavirostris)

The Yellow-billed Nunbird is unique in displaying a yellow bill and some white on the scapulars. It favors Terra Firme forest where it seems to be associated with landslides.

12.- Swallow-winged Puffbird (Chelidoptera tenebrosa)

The Swallow-winged Puffbird digs its nest in sandy soil, forming a burrow two or three feet long, where it lays one or two eggs. It is a fairly common, perched high on a dead branch along a riverbank, or openings, typically observed in pairs. It is known to capture insects from open perches.

Tinamous of the Rainforest in Ecuador

Learn to Recognize the Whistles of the Tinamous of the Rainforest in Ecuador.

Get familiar with Tinamou Songs and learn about the Diversity of Birds living in the Rainforest in Ecuador.

Tinamous are common terrestrial but shy and secretive birds. The word “tinamou” comes from the Galibi Pople. Traditionally regarded as the sister group of the flightless ratites (emus, ostriches, kiwis, and rheas). Tinamous roost in trees at night.

They are opportunistic and omnivorous feeders, consuming a wide variety of plant and animal food. They walk and run but will fly when they must.

Tinamous practice a complex breeding strategy. This entails the males practicing simultaneous polygyny and the females practicing successive polyandry.

Tinamous of the Rainforest in Ecuador first appear in the fossil record in the Miocene epoch at the same epoch apes also appeared.

In the Amazon Lowlands of Ecuador, during Our Birding Trips in the Rainforest, we have the chance to listen to most the following species of tinamous.

Tinamous of the Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador
Tinamous live in of the different forest formation of the Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador. Thanks to Tremarctos

Listen to Seven Species of Tinamous living in the Rainforest in Ecuador

They have clear, distinct, and sharp songs, designed to penetrate the many layers of the habitat that they frequent, serving a different purpose, linked to pairing, contact call, or territorial defense.

Some can be heard from several kilometers through the thick vegetation of the rain forest.

1.- Great Tinamou (Tinamus major)

Lives in the dense rainforest of both “terra firme” (non-flooded) and “várzea” (seasonally-flooded) types, up to 1,500 m. It has also been recorded in secondary forests.
It feeds on the forest floor, predominantly on berries, fruits and seeds, but will also take nuts and small animals such as insects, small mollusks and annelids.

2.- White-throated Tinamou (Tinamus guttatus)

Have chestnut-brown upperparts with blackish streaking on the lower back and small yellowish-white spots. It has paler underparts with wider, dark barring on flanks. With gray head and neck, with a white throat, brown eye, and brown bill. Body length 32 and 36 cm (13 and 14 in).

It eats fruit off the ground or low-lying bushes, as well as invertebrates, flower buds, tender leaves, seeds, and roots. The male incubates the eggs which may come from as many as four different females and then will raise them until they are ready to be on their own, usually two to three weeks.

3.- Cinereous Tinamou (Crypturellus cinereus)

Live in the várzea, their preferred habitat is thick, dark, and dense. They are abundant, within the upper Amazon.

They have a distinctive light-colored eye ring, with a bill has a dark upper mandible and a yellow lower mandible. lays two eggs, whose color varies from salmon to dark chocolate; the nest is merely a scrape in the ground, and nests can be found almost year-round across its range.

4.- Little Tinamou (Crypturellus soui)

Furtive, an almost tailless small bird, Favoring forest edge and dense secondary growth rather than forest interior. When disturbed runs rather than flies. Sometimes crosses quiet roads or trails, but tremulous whistles are often heard, especially early and late in the day. The plumage is dark brownish overall with grayer head and a whitish throat

5.- Undulated Tinamou (Crypturellus undulatus)

Is a ubiquitous species of river forest and second growth in the Amazon basin. feeds on small fruits, seeds, and insects and is considered fairly common throughout its range. Its distinctive three-note song often is among the first bird sounds one learns in Amazonia.

6.- Variegated Tinamou (Crypturellus variegatus)

The breeding behavior has been comparatively well studied. Males apparently outnumber females considerably, and as a result, the female is serially polyandrous, mating with up to four males, laying one egg per partner, which is then incubated by the male alone. As is typical of tinamous, the nest is a shallow, unlined depression on the ground. The single young leaves the nest on hatching and is tended by the male throughout.

7.- Bartlett’s Tinamou (Crypturellus bartletti)

It inhabits principally seasonally flooded areas and shrubby thickets. A poorly known Tinamou considered rare to uncommon over most of its distributional range. Virtually nothing has been published concerning its life history.