This is a list of the bird species recorded in Ecuador including those of the Galápagos Islands. The avifauna of Ecuador has 1651 confirmed species, of which seven are endemic to the mainland and 30 are endemic to the Galápagos. Four have been introduced by humans, 73 are rare or vagrants, two have been extirpated, and a third also might have been extirpated. An additional 40 species are hypothetical (see below). The following tags have been used to highlight certain categories of occurrence.