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Utuana Reserve

Target size: 500 ha (1,200 acres)
Current size, May 2008: about 100 ha (250 acres)

Utuana is a small reserve of about 80 hectares close to the Peruvian border and protects an unusual type of high altitude, epiphyte rich montane forest which is transitional between evergreen and the deciduous forest of the Tumbesian type. It is managed jointly with the Loja based conservation foundation, Arcoiris. It contains many endemic and threatened bird species.

Wildlife at Utuana

Black-crested Tit-Tyrant. Utuana is the only location in Ecuador for this Maranon valley endemic.

Globally threatened bird species:

• Ochre-bellied Dove
• Grey-headed Antbird
• Ochraceous Attila
• Piura Hemispingus
• Rufous-necked Foliage-Gleaner

Some 15 near threatened and restricted range species, including:

• West Peruvian Screech-owl
• Pacific Pygmy-owl
• Watkins’s Antpitta
• Loja Tyrannulet
• Rufous-winged Tyrannulet
• Black-crested Tit-tyrant
• White-winged Brush-finch
• Bay-crowned Brush-finch

Fundación Jocotoco reserves:

| Buenaventura | Jorupe | Narupa | Río Canandé | Tapichalaca | Utuana | Yanacocha | Yunguilla |

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