Reporting from Central Colombia

It’s hard to pick the best sightings of our recent trip to Central Colombia, but they definitely include the fantastic show given by Pancho, the baited Chestnut-crowned Antpitta in Rio Blanco, the great sighting of Noble Snipe flushed in the high-elevation paramo, the fantastic and close meeting with a pair of Northern Screamers during our boat ride in the Magdalena valley (yes, Screamers scream!) or the amazing looks at a pair of the Colombian endemic White-mantled Barbet!

We stopped at several feeding stations where the number of species attracted by sugar, fruit or worms is increasing year after year! Even fruiteaters and spinetails are now coming to the worms!

In then end, we saw no less than 39 species of hummingbirds, and contacted no less than 340 species of birds!

Obviously, besides the incredible diversity of birds, we were also amazed by the incredible diversity of flowers, orchids, butterflies, etc. Colombia is definitely THE biodiversity country!

The eBird trip report can be seen here: https://ebird.org/tripreport/391664

An iNaturalist trip report of plants and animals photographed during the trip can be seen here: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/wings-central-colombia-2025