Is it true that Ecuador has twice the bird species that North America and Europe combined?
Yes, Ecuador possesses 1,616 bird species, which corresponds to 17% of the earth’s species concentrated in this small country. It is the country in the world with the third highest bird variety and the first in bird density per square kilometer, and where about half the world’s hummingbirds can be found, concentrated mainly in the cloud forest around Mindo.
