Colombia, Day 7, 27 July 2011 - Reserva Natural de las Aves El Dorado, upper slopes

Santa Marta Parakeet (endemic)

Sierra de Santa Marta

Yellow-billed Cacique

Santa Marta Bush Tyrant (endemic)

Collared Trogon

Birding the Sierra de Santa Marta

Golden-bellied Grosbeak 

Transport Sierra de Santa Marta

local bus Sierra de Santa Marta

Yellow-crowned Whitestart (endemic)

Slaty-throated Whitestart

Paul and Sam, El Dorado Lodge

Colombia, Day 8, 28 July 2011 - Reserva Natural Mamancana & Isla de Salamanca

Roadside Hawk
Chestnut Piculet

Southern Beardless Tyrannulet

Panama Flycatcher

Birding Mamancana

Common Ground Dove

Red-headed Woodpecker

Pearl Kites

Scaled Dove

Breakfast at Mamancana 

Yellow-headed Caracara

Chestnut-winged Chacalaca (endemic)

Magnificent Frigatebird

Large-billed Tern

Large-billed Tern

Yellow-billed Terns

Hudsonian Whimbrel

Roseate Spoonbill

Cocoi Heron

Sapphire-bellied Hummingbird

Pied Water Tyrant

Yellow-chinned Spinetail

Yellow-chinned Spinetail

Isla de Salamanca

Ringed Kingfisher


Pied Puffbird

Ruddy Ground Dove

Russet-throated Puffbird

Wattled Jacana

Groove-billed Ani

Pied Water Tyrant

Baranquilla floods!

Colombia, Day 6, 26 July 2011 - La Tigre, Road to Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta & El Dorado Lodge

Yellow-tailed Oriole 

Buff-throated Saltator

Rufous-tailed Jacamar

Breakfast at the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta

Birding the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta

Bicoloured Wren

Santa Marta Sabrewing (endemic)

Streaked Saltator

King Vulture

Dusky-capped Flycatcher

Santa Marta Woodstar (endemic)

Violet-crowned Woodnymph

Violet-crowned Woodnymph

at El Dorado Lodge

El Dorado Lodge

El Dorado Lodge

White-tailed Starfrontlet

Santa Marta Brush Finch (endemic)

Sparkling Violetear

Black-fronted Wood Quail (endemic)

El Dorado Lodge

El Dorado Lodge