Best Birding In Ecuador. Common Birds of Amazonian Ecuador Canaday and L. In birding circles southern Ecuador is probably best known for the incomparable and highly sought-after Jocotoco Antpitta.
Ecuador is for the birds. Located less than 2 hours north of Quito the cloud forests of Mindo and Bellavista are rich and rewarding stops for birders and nature. The Ecuadorian Amazon is another superb place for birding in Ecuador.
Rio Mindo Dirt Road.
In Mindo you are spoiled for choice. Northwest of Quito is one of the best birding sites in South America. Actually I only became a birder after a few years of exploring this country from the high Andes to Amazonia and being regularly confronted by its remarkably diverse avifauna almost in spite of myself. It covers over 90 of the birds you are likely to see in Ecuador.