May 19, 2018 Guayaquil, Ecuador Birds, Part III (1 Viewer)

howiewu

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• Jun 13, 2018

• #1

Hi,

Continuing from the said time and location --

My thoughts are:

1. Plain-breasted Ground dove
2. Eared Dove
3. Shiny Cowbird (Edit: sorry this is a duplicate in another thread; I did not keep track of the images well .. )
4. Pacific Parrotlet
5. Red-masked Parakeet

What do you think? Thanks in advance!

Howard

 

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Last edited: Jun 14, 2018

howiewu

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• Jun 14, 2018

• #2

Bump once, don’t let it fall!

 

howiewu

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• Jun 15, 2018

• #3

Bump for the second and last time. Please help!

 

njlarsen

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• Jun 15, 2018

• #4

1 and 2 looks correct, but I do not know the parrots/parakeets well enough to know if they are right.

Niels

 

T

THE_FERN

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• Jun 15, 2018

• #5

Are we sure the first isn't Ecuadorean ground dove? I'm not absolutely sure that there is a rufous flash on the primaries - changing the colour balance in software doesn't make it any clearer, at least on this monitor, and the apparent reddish might be due to the ambient light from the grass etc. The tail is kinda longish, the spots fairly strongly defined (and with perhaps a carmine hue when "enhanced"—certainly not bluish), and I don't see very much grey to the head/neck. So all in all, perhaps female Ecuadorean.

 

njlarsen

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• Jun 15, 2018

• #6

I cannot exclude Ecuadorian though the image here (https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Ecuadorian_Ground_Dove) shows a tail with much more dark on top than the OP image

Niels

 

pbjosh

missing the neotropics

• Jun 15, 2018

• #7

On the Ground-Dove, odds are overwhelmingly in favor of Ecuadorian Ground-Dove over Plain-breasted. Plain-breasted is almost never common or the "default" Ground-Dove, and Ecuadorian Ground-Dove occurs at plague levels in SW Ecuador, including in cities. A quick look and the spots on the coverts look black not purple, which points at Ecuadorian. I don't remember the rest of the field marks, but take a look at this bar chart of species occurance across the entire Guayas province:
https://ebird.org/barchart?r=EC-G&yr=all&m=

Eared Dove, Scrub Blackbird, Pacific Parrotlet, Red-masked Parakeet

 

howiewu

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• Jun 15, 2018

• #8

Thank you all!