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Las Palmeras Inn



Our sister hotel, minutes outside the bustle of Otavalo, Ecuador

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Flora and Fauna at Hacienda Cusín

flora & fauna: flowers | trees | vegetable gardens | animals | birds Gardens Hundreds of thousands of years before Cusin, the melting snows from nearby mountains created torrents of water and a lake that covered all of the nearby valleys. The subsequent erosion created the rich, black lakebed soil of Cusin's present gardens. That rich soil, cool nights of 8,500', and a predictable equatorial sun have conspired with avid gardeners to create several acres of ever-blooming gardens which include: Flowers and bushes - (over 60 species) Belladonna, bougainvillea, agapantha, acanthas, foxgloves, malva, hollyhocks, roses, california poppy, poppy, cosmos, daisies - Aztec lily, cala lilly, kangeroo paws, orchids, hydrangea, gunnera, lantana, fuscia, ferns, lycheness, heliotrope, buddleia , pyrocanthus, a variety of vines including jasmine & thumburgia, many succulents, etc., etc. Trees (about 1,000) cholan , avocado, banana, palm, eucalyptus, datura, magnolia, cedro , walnut, laurel , jacaranda, Brazilian pepper, broom, arayan, grapefruit, lemon, tomate de arbol , babaco, etc. Vegetable gardens , including spices and fruit trees, for Cusin's menus. Animals Usually to be found in the stables : 8 horses, llamas, pigs, guinea-pigs, rabbits, guinea-hens, turkeys, chickens, dogs, cows, geese, etc. Birds - a partial listing First compiled by Peter Joost and the Brooklyn Bird Club, March, 1990, and later edited by Pablo Davila of Wilderness Travel in August, 1993, and Molly Milne, 1996. Please inform Reception of any new sightings. # Common Name Spanish Name Scientific Name 1 American Kestrel Cernícalo Americano / Quilico Falco sparverius 2 Andean Siskin Jilguero Andino Carduelis spinescens 3 Band-Tailed Seedeater Semillero Colifajeado Catamenia analis 4 Band-Tailed Pigeon Paloma Collareja / Torcaza Columba fasciata 5 Barnowl Lechuza Campanario Tyto alba 6 Black-and-White Seedeater Espiguero negriblanco Sporophila luctuosa 7 Black-Crested Warbler Reinita Crestinegra Basileuterus nigrocristatus 8 Black-Tailed Trainbearer (Hummingbird) Colancintillo Colinegro Lesbia victoriae 9 Black Flowerpiercer Pinchaflor Negro Diglossa humeralis 10 Black Vulture Buitre Negro Coragyps atratus 11 Black-Backed Grosbeak Picogrueso Dorsinegro Pheuticus anreoventris 12 Blackburnian Warbler Reinita Pechinaranja Dendroica fusca 13 Blue-and-Black Tanager Tangara Azulinegra Tangara vassorii 14 Blue-and-White Swallow Golondrina Azuliblanca Notiochelidon cyanoleuca 15 Blue-and-Yellow Tanager Tangara Azuliamarilla Thraupis bonariensis 16 Blue-Hooded Euphonia Eufonia Lomidorada Euphonioa musica 17 Brown-Bellied Swallow Golondrina Ventricafé Notiochelidon murina 18 Cattle Egret Garceta Bueyera Bubulcus ibis 19 Cinareous Conebill Picocono Cinéreo Conirostrum cinereum 20 Cochabamba Mountain Finch     21 Common Ground Dove Tortolita Común Columbina passerina 22 Coscoroba Swan & Cygnets   Coscoroba coscoroba 23 Eared Dove Tórtola Orejuda Zenaida auriculata 24 Giant Hummingbird Colibrí Gigante Patagona gigas 25 Great Sapphire-Wing Hummingbird     26 Great Thrush Mirlo Turdus fuscater 27 Great Violet-Eared Hummingbird     28 Greater Peewee Pibí Ahumado Contopus fumigatus 29 Hooded Siskin Jilguero Encapuchado Spinus magellanicus (Carduelis magallanica) 30 House Wren Soterrey Criollo Troglodytes aedon 31 Lesser Goldfinch Jilguero Menor Cardnelis psaltria 32 Masked Flowerpiercer Pinchaflor Enmascarado Diglossopis cyanea 33 Merlin-Falco Esmerejón (Falco) Columbarius 34 Plain-Colored Seedeater Semillero Sencillo Catamenia inornata 35 Plumbeous Sierra Finch Frigilo Plomizo (Phrygilus unicolor) 36 Rock Dove Paloma Doméstica Columba livia 37 Rufous-Collared Sparrow Chingolo (Gorrión) Zonotrichia capensis 38 Russet-Crowned Warbler Reinita Coronirrojiza Basileuterus coronatus 39 Shining Sunbeam Rayito Brillante Aglaeactis cupripennis 40 Southern Yellow Grosbeak Picogrueso Amarillo Sureño Pheucticus chrysogaster 41 Sparkling Violet-Ear Orejivioleta Ventriazul Colibri coruscans 42 Streak-Throated Bush Tyrant Alinaranja Golilistada Myiotheretes striaticollis 43 Summer Tanager Piranga Roja Piranga rubra 44 Tufted Tit-Tyrant Cachudito Torito Anairestes parulus 45 Variable (Puna) Hawk Gavilán Variable Buteo poecilochrous (Buteo polyosoma) 46 Vermillion Flycatcher Mosquero Bermerllón / Pájaro Brujo Pyrocephalus rubinus 47 White-Bellied Woodstar Estrellita Ventriblanca Ancestrura mulsant (Chaetocercus mulsant) 48 *Yellow Grosbeak Picogrueso Amarillo Sureño Pheucticus chrysopeplus

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