Ecuador - Birds & Butterflies
These winged images are from the phenomenally ecological country of Ecuador - the 2nd smallest country of South America (74th on Earth, or about the size of Colorado) - yet, about 18% of planet Earth's birds (1500+ species) are found throughout the climates of the Coastal, Sierra, and Amazon regions of this country. Regions comprising eco-zones of: Mangrove Forest, Tropical Dry Forest, Tropial Wet Forest, Andean Paramo or Montane Grasslands, Eastern Cordillera Montane Forest, Northwest Andean Montane Forest, and Amazonian Tropical Rain Forests.
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Plumbeous Sierra Finch (Phrygilus unicolor) - this species ranges the entire length of the Andes Mountains, in its natural habitats of tropical and subtropical high-altitude grassland. This specimen among the Andean Paramo ecoregion - in the Cajas National Park, whose elevation ranges between between ≈ 10,200-14,750 ft. (3,100-4,500 m), in the Andean Paramo eco-zone, whose vegetation consists o f high altitude grasses, evergreen shrubs and some scattered dwarf forests - Azuay province.
