One of our ace guides, Lelis Navarette, regularly leads tours across Peru and into the Amazon Basin. One on of his trips there was an avid blogger, Judy Liddell. Click here for link to her blogs about Peru.
Wait’ll you see her pics of the Masked-crimson Tanager and the Russet-crowned Coquette, a hummer with more attitude than even normal.
And here is one of Lelis’ fine photos, this a Many-spotted Hummingbird:
I got a chance to talk with John Drummond, a PIB partner. He told me his recent trip to Colombia was a huge success in every way. Acting as trip host, Drummond worked with Lelis Navarette and the Neblina Forest Tours team to see over 500 species. That’s more than a fine birder could expect in a full year birding any state in the U.S. In Colombia it took less than 3 weeks to see 523 species, hear another four dozen. And endemics?
THREE DOZEN ENDEMICS WERE SEEN. BIRDS NOT POSSIBLE ANYWHERE ELSE ON EARTH.
Click here for information on upcoming PIB trips to Colombia with Neblina Forest Tours.
If you’d like to savor the complete trip report with locations for many of the 523 species seen, email: charles@pibird.com.
Photos top to bottom: Endemic Yellow-crowned Whitestart, found in the Santa Marta Mountains of eastern Colombia; Golden-ringed Tanager; Indigo-capped Hummingbird; ourPIB birders having to sit quietly as hummers buzz around feeders at an eco-lodge. Tough birding, huh?
All these fine photos taken on recent trip by John Drummond.
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