| Tropical Birding tour report Northwest Ecuador December 2004
 
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 A quick visit to the feeders at the hacienda for close-up views of the beautiful
 Ecuadorian Hillstar
 finished off the day, and we headed back into Quito
 in time for the New Year celebrations.
 
 Bird List
 We saw 392 species in total.
 This does not include those that only I saw, or those that we only heard.
 The thirty Restricted-Range Species are in
 bold
 .  Twenty-two
 of these are Choc?? endemics, six are Tumbesian endemics, and two
 are Central Andeam P??ramo endemics.  Globally Threatened (Vulnerable)
 species are in
 red
 and marked (VU),
 and Near Threatened species are marked (NT). Taxonomy and nomenclature
 follow
 Ridgely, Robert S. and Paul J. Greenfield.
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