Ecuador · Manabí Province
Ayampe – Estuario del río Ayampe
312 species and 18,847 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: December, with up to 147 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Magnificent FrigatebirdFregata magnificens
Brown PelicanPelecanus occidentalis
Great EgretArdea alba
Masked Water TyrantFluvicola nengeta
Yellow-crowned Night HeronNyctanassa violacea
Snowy EgretEgretta thula
Tropical KingbirdTyrannus melancholicus
Neotropic CormorantNannopterum brasilianum
Black-necked StiltHimantopus mexicanus
Spotted SandpiperActitis macularius
Northern House WrenTroglodytes aedon
Scrub BlackbirdDives warczewiczi
Turkey VultureCathartes aura
Pied-billed GrebePodilymbus podicepsSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Ayampe – Ruta del Colibrí1 km385 species
- Salinas – Lagunas de Ecuasal65 km201 species
All 312 species recorded here
- Magnificent Frigatebird Fregata magnificens
- Brown Pelican Pelecanus occidentalis
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Masked Water Tyrant Fluvicola nengeta
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron Nyctanassa violacea
- Snowy Egret Egretta thula
- Tropical Kingbird Tyrannus melancholicus
- Neotropic Cormorant Nannopterum brasilianum
- Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius
- Scrub Blackbird Dives warczewiczi
- Black-necked Stilt Himantopus mexicanus
- Northern House Wren Troglodytes aedon
- Cocoi Heron Ardea cocoi
- Mangrove Warbler Setophaga petechia
- Grey-breasted Martin Progne chalybea
- Lesser Nighthawk Chordeiles acutipennis
- Saffron Finch Sicalis flaveola
- Black Vulture Coragyps atratus
- Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
- American White Ibis Eudocimus albus
- Blue-grey Tanager Thraupis episcopus
- Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps
- Common Gallinule Gallinula galeata
- Variable Seedeater Sporophila corvina
- Striated Heron Butorides striata
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Semipalmated Plover Charadrius semipalmatus
- Green Kingfisher Chloroceryle americana
- Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla
- White-tipped Dove Leptotila verreauxi
- Blue-and-white Swallow Pygochelidon cyanoleuca
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Vermilion Flycatcher Pyrocephalus rubinus
- Rufous-tailed Hummingbird Amazilia tzacatl
- Ringed Kingfisher Megaceryle torquata
- Little Blue Heron Egretta caerulea
- Groove-billed Ani Crotophaga sulcirostris
- Roseate Spoonbill Platalea ajaja
- Pale-vented Pigeon Patagioenas cayennensis
- Chestnut-throated Seedeater Sporophila telasco
- Blue-winged Teal Spatula discors
- Southern Beardless Tyrannulet Camptostoma obsoletum
- Collared Plover Anarhynchus collaris
- Tropical Gnatcatcher Polioptila plumbea
- Eared Dove Zenaida auriculata
- Eurasian Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
- Pacific Hornero Furnarius cinnamomeus
- Ecuadorian Ground Dove Columbina buckleyi
- Royal Tern Thalasseus maximus
- Blue-footed Booby Sula nebouxii
- Blue-black Grassquit Volatinia jacarina
- Southern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx ruficollis
- Amazilia Hummingbird Amazilis amazilia
- Long-tailed Mockingbird Mimus longicaudatus
- Shiny Cowbird Molothrus bonariensis
- Thick-billed Euphonia Euphonia laniirostris
- Crimson-breasted Finch Rhodospingus cruentus
- Streaked Saltator Saltator striatipectus
- Pacific Parrotlet Forpus coelestis
- Laughing Gull Leucophaeus atricilla
- Sanderling Calidris alba
- Parrot-billed Seedeater Sporophila peruviana
- Yellow-rumped Cacique Cacicus cela
- Wattled Jacana Jacana jacana
- Chivi Vireo Vireo chivi
- Peruvian Pelican Pelecanus thagus
- Saffron Siskin Spinus siemiradzkii
- Ecuadorian Thrush Turdus maculirostris
- Elegant Tern Thalasseus elegans
- White-cheeked Pintail Anas bahamensis
- Yellow-bellied Elaenia Elaenia flavogaster
- Smooth-billed Ani Crotophaga ani
- Least Grebe Tachybaptus dominicus
- Superciliated Wren Cantorchilus superciliaris
- Tropical Parula Setophaga pitiayumi
- Rufous-headed Chachalaca Ortalis erythroptera
- Baird's Sandpiper Calidris bairdii
- Boat-billed Flycatcher Megarynchus pitangua
- Tricolored Heron Egretta tricolor
- Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla
- Wilson's Phalarope Phalaropus tricolor
- Social Flycatcher Myiozetetes similis
- Golden-olive Woodpecker Colaptes rubiginosus
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Franklin's Gull Leucophaeus pipixcan
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- Collared Antshrike Thamnophilus bernardi
- Yellow-tailed Oriole Icterus mesomelas
- Fulvous-faced Scrub Tyrant Euscarthmus fulviceps
- Streak-headed Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes souleyetii
- Golden Grosbeak Pheucticus chrysogaster
- Croaking Ground Dove Columbina cruziana
- Bananaquit Coereba flaveola
- Palm Tanager Thraupis palmarum
- Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
- Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria
- Willet Tringa semipalmata
- Flame-rumped Tanager Ramphocelus flammigerus
- Short-tailed Field Tyrant Muscigralla brevicauda
- Long-billed Starthroat Heliomaster longirostris
- Pallid Dove Leptotila pallida
- Speckle-breasted Wren Pheugopedius sclateri
- Black-bellied Whistling Duck Dendrocygna autumnalis
- Fasciated Wren Campylorhynchus fasciatus
- Common Tody-Flycatcher Todirostrum cinereum
- Anthony's Nightjar Nyctidromus anthonyi
- Baird's Flycatcher Myiodynastes bairdii
- Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca
- South American Tern Sterna hirundinacea
- Rufous-browed Peppershrike Cyclarhis gujanensis
- Limpkin Aramus guarauna
- Wilson's Plover Anarhynchus wilsonia
- Tumbes Pewee Contopus punensis
- Long-billed Hermit Phaethornis longirostris
- Necklaced Spinetail Synallaxis stictothorax
- Bronze-winged Parrot Pionus chalcopterus
- Grey-and-gold Warbler Myiothlypis fraseri
- Black Skimmer Rynchops niger
- Plain Antvireo Dysithamnus mentalis
- Red-masked Parakeet Psittacara erythrogenys
- Grey-lined Hawk Buteo nitidus
- Esmeraldas Woodstar Chaetocercus berlepschi
- Pacific Pygmy Owl Glaucidium peruanum
- Laughing Falcon Herpetotheres cachinnans
- Blue Ground Dove Claravis pretiosa
- Buff-throated Saltator Saltator maximus
- Andean Coot Fulica ardesiaca
- Black-lored Yellowthroat Geothlypis auricularis
- Ecuadorian Piculet Picumnus sclateri
- Snowy-throated Kingbird Tyrannus niveigularis
- Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica
- American Oystercatcher Haematopus palliatus
- Lesser Greenlet Pachysylvia decurtata
- Brown-chested Martin Progne tapera
- Kelp Gull Larus dominicanus
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Yellow-throated Toucan Ramphastos ambiguus
- Great Antshrike Taraba major
- Grey-headed Gull Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus
- Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Yellow-bellied Seedeater Sporophila nigricollis
- West Peruvian Dove Zenaida meloda
- Black-throated Mango Anthracothorax nigricollis
- Hook-billed Kite Chondrohierax uncinatus
- Black-capped Sparrow Arremon abeillei
- Ecuadorian Trogon Trogon mesurus
- Pacific Elaenia Myiopagis subplacens
- Lesser Swallow-tailed Swift Panyptila cayennensis
- Sooty-headed Tyrannulet Phyllomyias griseiceps
- Orange-billed Sparrow Arremon aurantiirostris
- Ochre-bellied Dove Leptotila ochraceiventris
- Black-cheeked Woodpecker Melanerpes pucherani
- Peruvian Booby Sula variegata
- Inca Tern Larosterna inca
- Blue-headed Parrot Pionus menstruus
- Sora Porzana carolina
- Olivaceous Woodcreeper Sittasomus griseicapillus
- Plumbeous-backed Thrush Turdus reevei
- Watkins's Antpitta Grallaria watkinsi
- Sandwich Tern Thalasseus sandvicensis
- Dull-colored Grassquit Asemospiza obscura
- Fulvous Whistling Duck Dendrocygna bicolor
- Scale-crested Pygmy Tyrant Lophotriccus pileatus
- Elegant Crescentchest Melanopareia elegans
- Mouse-grey Flycatcher Myiophobus crypterythrus
- Guayaquil Woodpecker Campephilus gayaquilensis
- Pale-browed Tinamou Crypturellus transfasciatus
- Slaty Spinetail Synallaxis brachyura
- Gartered Trogon Trogon caligatus
- Western Fire-eye Pyriglena maura
- Short-tailed Woodstar Myrmia micrura
- Violet-bellied Hummingbird Chlorestes julie
- Variable Hawk Geranoaetus polyosoma
- Piratic Flycatcher Legatus leucophaius
- Peruvian Meadowlark Leistes bellicosus
- Pauraque Nyctidromus albicollis
- Orange-crowned Euphonia Euphonia saturata
- Guira Tanager Hemithraupis guira
- Green Heron Butorides virescens
- Sooty-crowned Flycatcher Myiarchus phaeocephalus
- Streaked Flycatcher Myiodynastes maculatus
- Choco Toucan Ramphastos brevis
- Henna-hooded Foliage-gleaner Clibanornis erythrocephalus
- Sooty Shearwater Ardenna grisea
- Purple Gallinule Porphyrio martinica
- Short-tailed Hawk Buteo brachyurus
- Long-billed Curlew Numenius americanus
- Collared Aracari Pteroglossus torquatus
- Great-tailed Grackle Quiscalus mexicanus
- Bobolink Dolichonyx oryzivorus
- Lineated Woodpecker Dryocopus lineatus
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- White-edged Oriole Icterus graceannae
- Grey-backed Hawk Pseudastur occidentalis
- Savanna Hawk Buteogallus meridionalis
- Marbled Godwit Limosa fedoa
- Anhinga Anhinga anhinga
- Summer Tanager Piranga rubra
- Zone-tailed Hawk Buteo albonotatus
- Scaled Pigeon Patagioenas speciosa
- Little Tinamou Crypturellus soui
- Plain-brown Woodcreeper Dendrocincla fuliginosa
- Whooping Motmot Momotus subrufescens
- Snail Kite Rostrhamus sociabilis
- Orange-bellied Euphonia Euphonia xanthogaster
- Slaty Becard Pachyramphus spodiurus
- Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus
- Ruddy Pigeon Patagioenas subvinacea
- Tumbesian Tyrannulet Nesotriccus tumbezanus
- Giant Cowbird Molothrus oryzivorus
- Crane Hawk Geranospiza caerulescens
- White-bearded Manakin Manacus manacus
- Greenish Elaenia Myiopagis viridicata
- Harris's Hawk Parabuteo unicinctus
- Scarlet-backed Woodpecker Veniliornis callonotus
- White-shouldered Tanager Loriotus luctuosus
- Striped Cuckoo Tapera naevia
- Grey Gull Leucophaeus modestus
- White-lined Tanager Tachyphonus rufus
- Black Tern Chlidonias niger
- Black-and-white Seedeater Sporophila luctuosa
- Black-faced Dacnis Dacnis lineata
- Red Tanager Piranga flava
- Green Honeycreeper Chlorophanes spiza
- Bicolored Hawk Astur bicolor
- Common Squirrel Cuckoo Piaya cayana
- Comb Duck Sarkidiornis sylvicola
- Grey-rumped Swift Chaetura cinereiventris
- Rufescent Tiger Heron Tigrisoma lineatum
- Killdeer Charadrius vociferus
- Grey-headed Kite Leptodon cayanensis
- Purple-crowned Fairy Heliothryx barroti
- Spectacled Owl Pulsatrix perspicillata
- Black-striped Sparrow Arremonops conirostris
- Collared Forest Falcon Micrastur semitorquatus
- Common Tern Sterna hirundo
- Yellow-billed Cacique Amblycercus holosericeus
- Blue-black Grosbeak Cyanoloxia cyanoides
- Crested Caracara Caracara plancus
- Blackish-headed Spinetail Synallaxis tithys
- Crested Guan Penelope purpurascens
- Red-faced Spinetail Cranioleuca erythrops
- Red-billed Tropicbird Phaethon aethereus
- White-necked Jacobin Florisuga mellivora
- Dusky-capped Flycatcher Myiarchus tuberculifer
- Sulphur-rumped Myiobius Myiobius sulphureipygius
- Chilean Flamingo Phoenicopterus chilensis
- Yellow-olive Flatbill Tolmomyias sulphurescens
- Stilt Sandpiper Calidris himantopus
- Least Bittern Botaurus exilis
- Bat Falcon Falco rufigularis
- Tropical Royal Flycatcher Onychorhynchus coronatus
- Masked Tityra Tityra semifasciata
- Cinnamon Becard Pachyramphus cinnamomeus
- Trilling Gnatwren Ramphocaenus melanurus
- Thick-billed Seed Finch Sporophila funerea
- Cryptic Becard Pachyramphus salvini
- Fork-tailed Flycatcher Tyrannus savana
- Guanay Cormorant Leucocarbo bougainvilliorum
- Common Black Hawk Buteogallus anthracinus
- Southern Lapwing Vanellus chilensis
- Cinnamon Teal Spatula cyanoptera
- Snowy Plover Anarhynchus nivosus
- Eastern Kingbird Tyrannus tyrannus
- Grey-breasted Crake Laterallus exilis
- Grey-breasted Flycatcher Lathrotriccus griseipectus
- White-whiskered Puffbird Malacoptila panamensis
- Bay-headed Tanager Tangara gyrola
- Swainson's Thrush Catharus ustulatus
- Black-tailed Myiobius Myiobius atricaudus
- Ochre-throated Foliage-gleaner Automolus ochrolaemus
- Short-tailed Swift Chaetura brachyura
- One-colored Becard Pachyramphus homochrous
- Red-billed Scythebill Campylorhamphus trochilirostris
- Ochre-bellied Flycatcher Mionectes oleagineus
- Rufous-necked Wood Rail Aramides axillaris
- American Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon pyrrhonota
- American Golden Plover Pluvialis dominica
- American Redstart Setophaga ruticilla
- Crowned Woodnymph Thalurania colombica
- West Peruvian Screech Owl Megascops roboratus
- Surfbird Calidris virgata
- Southern Nightingale-Wren Microcerculus marginatus
- Large-billed Tern Phaetusa simplex
- Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
- Black-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus erythropthalmus
- Pacific Antwren Myrmotherula pacifica
- Stripe-throated Hermit Phaethornis striigularis
- Red-rumped Woodpecker Veniliornis kirkii
- Bridled Tern Onychoprion anaethetus
- Peruvian Tern Sternula lorata
- Grey-breasted Wood Wren Henicorhina leucophrys
- Great Black Hawk Buteogallus urubitinga
- Dusky-faced Tanager Mitrospingus cassinii
- Scaly-throated Foliage-gleaner Anabacerthia variegaticeps
- Sulphur-throated Finch Sicalis taczanowskii
- Wedge-billed Woodcreeper Glyphorynchus spirurus
- Pied Plover Hoploxypterus cayanus
- Wandering Tattler Tringa incana
- Olive-sided Flycatcher Contopus cooperi
- Sabine's Gull Xema sabini
- Blue-necked Tanager Stilpnia cyanicollis
- Pearl Kite Gampsonyx swainsonii
- White-throated Crake Laterallus albigularis
- Rusty-margined Flycatcher Myiozetetes cayanensis
- Black-crowned Antshrike Thamnophilus atrinucha
- Western Wood Pewee Contopus sordidulus
- Slaty Antwren Myrmotherula schisticolor
- Little Cuckoo Coccycua minuta
- Olive-striped Flycatcher Mionectes galbinus
- Choco Tyrannulet Zimmerius albigularis
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Ayampe – Estuario del río Ayampe?
December. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 147 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Ayampe – Estuario del río Ayampe?
312 species, from 18,847 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Ayampe – Estuario del río Ayampe in November?
The most recorded in November: Magnificent Frigatebird, Brown Pelican, Great Egret, Masked Water Tyrant and Yellow-crowned Night Heron.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.