🇪🇨 Animals of Ecuador

The American kestrel is the smallest falcon in the Americas and the most numerous.

The Andean condor is a huge black vulture of the Andes and the Pacific coast of South America.

The black vulture is a glossy black scavenger of the Americas, with a bare grey head and white patches at the wingtips.

The blue whale is the largest animal that has ever lived.

The blue-footed booby is a seabird of the eastern Pacific that dives on schools of small fish.

The burrowing owl is a small, long-legged owl of open country in the Americas.

The capybara is the largest rodent in the world.

The cougar is a large solitary cat that ranges from the Yukon to the tip of South America.

The false killer whale is a large black dolphin of warm, deep seas that hunts tuna and squid in pods bound by lifelong ties.

The Galápagos giant tortoise is the largest living tortoise and one of the longest-lived animals.

The great egret is a tall white heron that hunts fish in shallow water on six continents.

The green sea turtle grazes on seagrass in warm coastal waters.

The harpy eagle is the most powerful bird of prey in the American rainforest, with rear talons the length of a grizzly bear's claws.

The hoatzin is a crested bird of Amazon swamp forest that lives on leaves and ferments them in a huge crop.

The house mouse is a small grey-brown rodent that lives in and around human buildings on every inhabited continent.

The humpback whale is a large baleen whale found in every ocean.

The jaguar is the largest cat in the Americas and the third largest in the world.

The kinkajou is a small nocturnal relative of the raccoon that lives in the canopy of tropical forests from Mexico to Brazil.

Leafcutter ants carry pieces of leaf back to the nest, but they do not eat them.

The ocelot is a medium-sized spotted cat of the Americas, from Texas to northern Argentina.

The orca is the largest dolphin and the top predator of the sea.

The scarlet macaw is a large, loud parrot of the American tropics.

The spectacled bear is South America's only bear and the last of the short-faced bears, named for the pale rings that circle its eyes.

The turkey vulture is the most widespread vulture in the Americas, and it finds its food by smell.

The vicuña is the smallest wild camelid and the ancestor of the alpaca, living on the high grassland of the central Andes.

The western honey bee lives in colonies of tens of thousands and turns nectar into honey.

The whale shark is the largest fish in the sea.