Scrub Tanager, Tangara vitriolina, 14 cm. / 5.5 in. COMMON in scrub, gardens, light woodland of the intermontane valleys in the North, mainly in arid regions and spreading southward.

Quito Botanic Gardens, Quito, Pichincha Province, Ecuador.

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Diagnostic Black Flowerpiercer, Diglossia humerals, 13.5 cm. / 5.25 in. COMMON. Widespread and numerous in shrubby areas and gardens from temperate up to paramo.

Quito Botanic Gardens, Quito, Pichincha Province, Ecuador.

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Masked Flowerpiercer, Diglossus cyanea, 14.5 cm. / 5.75 in. . Widespread and COMMON in temperate zones.

Quito Botanic Gardens, Quito, Pichincha Province, Ecuador.

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Great Thrush, Turdus fuscater quindio, 33 cm. / 13 in. COMMON and conspicuous in more humid highlands and central valley up to paramo.

Quito Botanic Gardens, Quito, Pichincha Province, Ecuador.

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Brown Violetear, Colibri delphinae, 9 cm. / 3.5 in. SCARCE and notably UNCOMMON in sub-tropical forest and woodland borders and semi-open areas with scattered trees on both slopes.

Umbrellabird Lodge, Buenaventura Reserve, near Piñas, El Oro Province, Ecuador.

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