Mangaloma - Private Bird Watching Tours | Choco Endemics

MangaLoma Reserve and Lodge

At 700 to 900 MASL (2296 - 2952 ft) is a low altitude private cloud forest located 7 km off the main highway after Los Bancos on kilometer 104.5. When driving on the main highway turn right on the road to Pachijal go 3 kilometers and turn left, go another 4 km to the end of the road where the reserve begins. It has 200 hectare (494 acres) of primary cloud forest. This placed is owned and protected by FUNDACION IMAYMANA in an effort to preserve the threaten forest in this internationally defined Important Bird Area (IBA).

Due to its low altitude this is also a good place to see the Chocó endemics and also birds like the Long-wattled Umbrellabird and the Banded Ground-Cuckoo.

For more information visit : www.reservamangaloma.com/

email: mangaloma (at) hotmail (dot) com

Phone 593-998712878, 593-999232143,

Bird List Here: Mangaloma_Reserve_Bird_Checklist_2010

BIRDS of Mangaloma


Roadside Hawk	Turkey Volture	Plumbeous Kite	Laughing Falcon

White-throated Crake	Rudy Pigeon	Dusky-Pigeon	Indigo-crowned Quail-Dove

Pacific Parrolet	Maroon-tailed Parakeet	Bronze-winged Parrot	Squirrel Cuckoo

Smooth-billed Ani	Pauraque	Lesser Swallow-tailed Swift	White-whiskered Hermit

Choco Trogon	Collared Trogon	Guayaquil Woodpecker	Green Kingfisher

Rufous Motmot	Broad-billed Motmot	Red-headed Barbet	Orange-fronted Barbe

White-wiskered Puffbird	Chestnut-mandiblel Toucan	Pale-mandibled Aracari	Golden-olive Woodpeckers

Scarlet-backed Woodpecker	Black-cheeked Woodpecker	Olivaceous Piculet	Plain-brown Woodcreeper

Streak-headed Woodcreeper	Plain Xenops	Streaked Xenops	Scaly-throated Foliage-gleaner

Spot-crowned Atnvireo	Yellow Tyrannulet	Golden-faced Tyrannulet	Black-headed Tody-Flycatcher

Common Tody-Flycatcher	Ornate Flycatcher	Western Wood Pewee	Masked water-Tyrant

Streaked Flycatcher	Rusty-margined Flycatcher	Boat-billed Flycatcher_	Slaty Becard

One-colored Becard	Masked Tytira	Black-tipped Cotinga	Purple-throated Fruitcrow

White-thighed Swallow	House Wren	Red-eyed Vireo	Ecuadorian Thrush

Banaquit	Purple Honeycreeper	Green Honeycreeper-Male	Orange-bellied Euphonia

Gray-and-gold Tanager	Bay-Headed-Tanager	Dusky-faced Tanager	Lemon-rumped Tanager

Palm Tanager	Buff-throated Saltador	Large-billed Seed-Finch	Blue-black Grassquit

Varialble Seedeater	Scarlet-rumpet Cacique	Shiny Cowbird	Shiny Cowbird Female Juv