Monday, January 19, 2026

September 2025: 10-day Birding Tour in Colombia





Tour organizer and intrepid guide, Ernesto Reyes

Camarones in the 
Los Flamencos Flora and Fauna Sanctuary


Scarlet Ibis

Crested Caracara


Magnificant Frigatebird

Yellow Backed Oriole
Wayu culture (ethnic group of the Guajira Peninsula)



George
The Wayuu painted traditional figures on our faces
using red-colored chalk, a natural pigment

Sandy and Trudy

Dana

Gwendolyn

Eliza

Me

Liliana


Ernesto guiding us on a short walk from our lodging
in the Senda Koguiwa Hotel, Santa Marta



Blue-napped Chlorophonia
We enjoyed to the max the swarms of beautiful birds
on the bird feeders of our lodging at the
Mountain House Lodge, Santa Marta

Black-capped Tanager

The Blue-napped Chlorophonia is my
favorite bird of the entire tour

Female Black-capped Tanager

Sparkling Violetear



Sparkling Violetear

Lazuline Sabrewing

Black-headed Tanager

View from the Mountain House Lodge



Palm Tanager

Santa Marta Brushfinch

Bay-headed Tanager


Trudy on the second-story balcony,
Mountain House Lodge


Crested Oropendola



More views on and near the Mountain House Lodge



Striated Woodpecker

Lazuline Sabrewing

Breakfast fruit plate in the
restaurant of the Mountain House Lodge




Great-tailed Grackle
Lunch at Popeye Yo Quaria Cafe






Northern Screamer



A nesting pair of Pied Puffbirds
Salamonca National Park



San Felipe de Barajas Fort
in Cartagena

A Yellow-headed Caracara eating a pigeon
on one of the fort's walkways




Our room in the Estelar Cartagenade Indias Hotel
Cartagena

Evening celebrations in Cartagena


Views from the 24th floor of our hotel



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