BIRDING CENTRAL ANDES- Rio Blanco, Paramo del Ruiz, Termales del Ruiz, Termales de San Vicente & Otun Quimbaya

Bogota Birding and Birdwatching Colombia Tours

Bogota Birding and Birdwatching Colombia Tours

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THE BEST BIRDING AT CENTRAL ANDES- COLOMBIA

Endemic, Buffy Helmetcrest, Oxypogon stuebelii, Parque Nacional Los Nevados

Rio Blanco LODGE HAS THE AMAZING  endemic Brown-banded, Bicolored, Chestnut-crowned antpitta, Chestnut-naped ANTPITTA,  Slate-crowned Antpitta, Undulated antpitta..also the Mega rare Masked Saltator, Tyrannine Woodcreeper, Rusty faced parrot, Spillmans tapaculo, Golden-faced Redstart, Dusky Piha, Blackish tapaculo, Black-billed peppershrakers, d Buff-breasted Mountain-Tanagers, Grass-green tanager, White-capped Tanager, Powerful Woodpecker, bar bellied woodpecker, yellow vented woodpecker, Ocellated tapaculo. The stunning Black-billed Peppershrike, Plushcap, Mountain Cacique, yellow billed cacique, black collared jay. Here  feeders hummingbirds:  Tourmaline Sunangel, Buff-tailed Coronet, Speckled Hummingbird, Bronzy  Inca, Collared Inca, Mountain Velvet-breast, wedge billed hummingbird, White-bellied Woodstar and Long-tailed Sylph
With oswaldo cortes (birding guide)

The antpittas endemic: brown-banded antpitta (Grallaria milleri),  Bicolored Antpitta, Bicoloured Antpitta   (Grallaria rufocinerea), slaty-crowned antpitta (Grallaricula nana), chestnut-naped antpitta (Grallaria nuchalis), and Chestnut crown antpitta (Grallaria ruficapilla)

The mega rare - masked saltator (Saltator cinctus)  by Bogota Birding

Rusty faced parrot (Hapalopsittaca amazonina) by Bogota Birding

 

Western Wedge-billed Hummingbird (Schistesalbogularis) by Bogota Birding

PARQUE NACIONAL NATURAL LOS NEVADOS
 los Nevados National Park, in the central Andes,
Big paramo the core central andes where you can see the endemic: Buffy Helmetcrest, Rufous fronted parakeet, Paramo tapaculo,  golden-breasted puffleg (Eriocnemis mosquera), black-thighed puffleg (Eriocnemis derbyi), mountain avocetbill (Opisthoprora euryptera),  black-backed bush tanager (Urothraupis stolzmanni)Also Scarlet-bellied Mountain-tanager, Capped Conebill, Golden-crowned Tanager, Tawny Antpitta, who are very tame in this area. The habitat surrounding a glacial lagoon called Laguna Negra, afford views of Many-striped Canastero, White-tailed Hawk, Black-chested Buzzard-Eagle, Andean Tit-Spinetail, White-chinned Thistletail, Ruddy Duck, Grass Wren, and Pale-naped Brush-Finch, Paramo seedeaters , Plumbeous Sierra-Finch, and Plain-colored Seedeater

endemic:  buffy helmetcrest (Oxypogon stuebelii), black-thighed puffleg (Eriocnemis derbyi),  rainbow-bearded thornbill (Chalcostigma herrani)

Rainbow-bearded thornbill, Chalcostigma herrani, Parque Los Nevados, Central Andes, Aves de Paramo

endemic, Rufous-fronted Parakeet, Bolborhynchus ferrugineifrons, Lorito cadillero, Nevados Natural Par