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    First time going to Colombia to bird! Questions about how much preplanning to do

    Hi there, I'm planning to go to Colombia in mid November solo, and would like to hire guides as I go. I'm wondering if most the lodges or places that I stay at will be able to easily hook me up with a guide or if I need to plan that well in advance. Anyone have experience with this? Basically...
  2. Plain-breasted Piculet

    Plain-breasted Piculet

    Piculets are some of my favorite birds, and this is hands-down the most cooperative individual I've ever encountered!
  3. Pale-breasted Thrush

    Pale-breasted Thrush

    An adult bird based on the contrast between head and back.
  4. Blue-naped Chlorophonia

    Blue-naped Chlorophonia

    One more photo of this iconic species. Subspecies psittacina
  5. Rusty Flowerpiercer female

    Rusty Flowerpiercer female

  6. Santa Marta Woodstar

    Santa Marta Woodstar

    At least in August this seemed to be the typical view of this hummer - in the top of a distant tree, viewed from higher up above the top of other trees.
  7. Santa Marta Brushfinch

    Santa Marta Brushfinch

    Returning to a photo I did not really look at last year
  8. Andean Motmot

    Andean Motmot

    Large motmot found in forests and edges from foothills into subtropical zone; typically at higher elevations than other motmots. Despite the bright colours their habits of often sitting tight makes them surprisingly easy to overlook.
  9. Collared Plover

    Collared Plover

    Widely distributed across central & South America but generally uncommon, small plover of beaches, coastal lagoons, lakeshores, gravel bars, and sandbars along rivers. This the only individual we saw on this trip gave good views as it fed along the shore of the main lagoon at SFF Los Flamencos...
  10. Royal Tern

    Royal Tern

    Large, coastal tern - by far the most dominant tern numerically at this site. Many loafing on the shore/mudbanks while others commuting to the nearby ocean to feed. (Additional flight shots of this species as requested by Barney!)
  11. Orinocan Saltator

    Orinocan Saltator

    Another restricted range (NW Venezuela & NE Colombia) species typically found in dry, arid coastal scrub.
  12. Vermilion Cardinal

    Vermilion Cardinal

    Restricted range (NW Venezuela & NE Colombia) species typically found in dry, arid coastal scrub.
  13. Buff-winged Starfrontlet

    Buff-winged Starfrontlet

    Another high elevation hummer that we ran into at several sites - this one of several along the ridge trying to feed despite the best attempts of the dominant Shining Sunbeams to chase them off.
  14. Royal Tern

    Royal Tern

    By far the most common tern species at this tidal, coastal site with many roosting on the part exposed mud with other smaller tern species and skimmers.
  15. Black Skimmer

    Black Skimmer

    Bizarre looking tern-like bird with oversized bill—lower mandible is much longer than upper mandible. Feeds by flying close to surface of water and dipping its lower mandible into the water "skimming" for small fish. There were over 100 of these roosting on a sand bank with many terns (mainly...
  16. Crowned Woodnymph

    Crowned Woodnymph

    Male of this spectacular (when he catches the light) hummingbird which is found over quite a large part of Central & the Northern part of South America. This one of several in the gardens around the restaurant.
  17. Sparkling Violetear

    Sparkling Violetear

    Large aggressive hummingbird that usually dominates feeders or flower patches. Common and widespread in the Andes.
  18. Black-headed Tanager

    Black-headed Tanager

    A small tanager of foothill forests and edge habitats, dry valleys, and humid forest. This male was one of a pair attracted to the fruit feeders in the gardens of Mountain-house bird lodge, midway between the El Dorado lodge and Minca.
  19. Black-throated Tody-Tyrant

    Black-throated Tody-Tyrant

    Small flycatcher found in the Andes from Venezuela to Bolivia. This bird in typical scrubby forest edge habitat in the Santa Marta range along the road between El Dorado lodge and Minca (Magdalena/Colombia).
  20. Tawny Antpitta

    Tawny Antpitta

    Medium-sized antpitta found in elfin forest and páramo near or above treeline in the Andes from western Colombia to extreme northwestern Peru. At least two subspecies are recognised (assuming full split of Boyaca Antpitta is recognized), this an example of G.q. quitensis which we watched just...
  21. Brown Violetear

    Brown Violetear

    Rather uncommon, large but drab, fairly short-billed hummingbird of tropical and subtropical forest and edge. We saw widely in Colombia (as we had in Costa Rica) but always in small numbers.
  22. Streak-capped Spinetail

    Streak-capped Spinetail

    We saw several of these spinetails birding the ridge as they worked their way along moss and bromeliads covered branches. Endemic to the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and Sierra de Perija in Colombia and Venezuela.
  23. Rusty-breasted Antpitta

    Rusty-breasted Antpitta

    Small Antpitta found in montane forest in the Andes from northern Venezuela to central Colombia. There are two races: this one (G.f. ferrugineipectus) is found in the Santa Marta range and in to Venezuela. we picked up this bird calling while birding along a trail midway between Minca and the...
  24. Sierra Nevada Antpitta

    Sierra Nevada Antpitta

    Very limited range endemic Antpitta. Although we heard 2 or 3 birds this was the only one we managed to see as it perched briefly in a dense clump of bamboo by the track on the San Lorenzo ridge in Colombia’s Santa Marta Mountains. Challenging to photograph given virtually no light and how the...
  25. Sierra Nevada Antpitta

    Sierra Nevada Antpitta

    Very limited range endemic Antpitta. Although we heard 2 or 3 birds this was the only one we managed to see as it perched briefly in a dense clump of bamboo by the track on the San Lorenzo ridge in Colombia’s Santa Marta Mountains. Challenging to photograph given virtually no light and how the...
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