Northern Colombia Birding Trail Tour - 12 Days

Here we weet with all team the Bogota Birding and talking about the trip, birds and dinner time.

Early this morning we leave the hotel and start the birding to Dorado Lodge (Santa Marta Mountains). Our first stop endemic time at the mangrove habitat Isla Salamanaca National Park. Here we will look endemic hummingbrd: Sapphire-bellied Hummingbird, Panamanian Flycatcher, Golden-green Woodpecker, American Pygmy and Greenand-rufous Kingfishers, Bicolored Conebill, Chestnut-winged Chachalaca, Chestnut piculet, Bronze-brown Cowbird and few times with Turquoise-winged Parrotlet. Also the some gulls, shorebirds and sandpipers. After this activitie we’ll go Minca where start the foothill Santa Marta mountain Red-billed Emerald, Crowned Woodnymph, Rufous tailed hummingbird, Whitevented Plumeleteer, Military Macaw, Coppery Emerald, Sooty-capped Hermit. Night Hotel Minca

Day 3. Birding around Minca Rufous tailed hummingbird, Whitevented Plumeleteer, Military Macaw, Coppery Emerald, Sooty-capped Hermit, Rusty-breasted Antpitta, Rufous-breasted Wren, Black-striped Sparrow, Rufous tailed Jacamar,Golden-winged Sparrow near to the lodge we can find the Santa Marta Tapaculo, Santa Marta Blossomcrown, Santa Marta Brushfinch, Santa Marta foliage gleaner, Back backed antshrike,

From Minca we head higher up the Santa Marta mountains (Dorado Lodge, we spend two full day the birding about the Santa Marta mountain) traversing coffee plantations and montane forest where we can to see more endemic birds: Santa Marta Blossomcrown, Santa Marta Brushfinch, Streak-capped Spinetail, Santa Marta Antbird, Santa Marta Foliage-gleaner, White-lored Warbler, Rossy thrush tanager, White-tailed Starfrontlet Santa Marta Woodstar, the endemic race of Tyrian (Santa Marta) Metaltail, Santa Marta Sabrewing, Black-fronted Wood Quail, Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush, Black-hooded Thrush, Blue-naped Chlorophonia, Sierra Nevada Brushfinch, Santa Marta Antpitta, Mottled Owl, Santa Marta Screech Owl, Rusty-headed Spinetail, Brown rumped Tapaculo, Yellow-crowned Whitestart, Santa Marta Mountain Tanager , Santa Marta Warblers, White-tipped Quetzal, (Santa Marta) Toucanet, Santa marta bush tyrant, Golden-breasted Fruiteater, Yellow-legged Thrush, Hermit Wood Wren, Barred Forest Falcon, shy Lined Quail-Dove, Grey-throated Leaftosser, (Santa Marta) Rufous Antpitta , Black-backed Thornbill, Masked Trogon, Groove-billed Toucanet, Collared Aracari, Golden-olive Woodpecker, Bat Falcon.

Santa Marta Mountains to Riohacha (Santuario de Fauna y Flora Flamingos). We depart Dorado in the morning way to Guajira (xerophitic and cactus area) but we do stop on the road in dry forest for look: Lance-tailed Manakin, White-bellied Antbird, Buff-breasted Wren, Gartered Trogon, Brown-capped Tyrannulet, Black-headed Tody-Flycatcher, Whooping motmot, White-necked Puffbird. Rufous-vented Chachalaca, Double-striped Thick-knee, White-whiskered Spinetail, Grey Pileated Finch, Caribbean (Pale-legged) Hornero, Ferruginous Pygmy Owl, Black-crested Antshrike, Red-billed Emerald, Slender-billed Inezia, Pearly vented Tody-Tyrant, Orinoco Saltator and Yellow Oriole amongst others endemic sub-species of Buffy hummingbird, Black-crested Antshrike, Red-billed Emerald, Slender-billed Inezia, Pearlyvented Tody-Tyrant, Orinoco Saltator, Yellow Oriole, Vermilion Cardinal, Green-rumped Parrotlet, Bare-eyed Pigeon, Trinidad Euphonia, Slender-billed Inezia, Glaucous Tanager, Brown-crested Flycatcher, Prothonotary Warbler, Grey Kingbird, Pale-eyed Pygmy Tyrant, Straight-billed Woodcreeper , Northern Scrub Flycatcher and the specially and difficult to see near endemic Tocuyo Sparrow depend the season we can to scanning the marsh for American Flamingo, Roseate Spoonbill Scarlet Ibis.

Morning birding time around the Santuario de Fauna y Flora Flamingos looking for birds missed yesterday . After the lunch people has the free afternoon for shooping time (crafts with culture wayuu or we can continue for more birding time.

We leave the Rio Hacha for to go Perija Reserve (Around 5 hours by car) . Perija is another aislation mountains with interesting endemic birds . We start to see bird at downhill towards San Antonio where we spending the time looking for Klages’s Antbird, Perija Brushfinch. Other highlights included the Perija subspecies of Common Hemispingus, Lacrimose Mountain Tanger, and Rufous Spinetail, as well as Perija Tapaculo, Perija Yellow-breasted Brushfinch, Golden-breasted Fruiteater, Red-shafted Woodstar, and Venezuelan Tyrannulet.

In the night we can to do owling time behind the White throated screech owl or Striped owl.

Lodge Full day the birding time at Perija behind the endemic birds like: Perija Thistletail, Perija metaltail, Perijá/Phelps’s Brush-Finch, Perija Tapaculo, Perija (rufous) antpitta, Perija Golden-bellied Starfrontlet, Mountain Velvetbreast, Emerald Toucanet, Hooded Mountain Tanager, Fulvous-headed Tanager, Streak-capped Treehunter, Chestnut-breasted Chlorophonia, Barred Fruiteater. Fulvous-headed Tanager, Saffron-crowned Tanager, Oleaginous Hemispingus, Gray-throated Warbler, Rusty Flowerpiercer, Steely-vented, Speckled, Coppery Emerald, and Booted Racket-Tail and some times Green-bellied Hummingbird here.

Morning birding time (lowland species find Perija Brushfinch, Grey-throated Warbler, Yellow-throated Toucan, Crimson-rumped Toucanet, Moustached Puffbird and Golden-headed Manakin).and afternoon domestical flight to Bogota via Valledupar and depart.

Morning walking around the Bogota and lunch time in the historic Candelaria