What’s your favourite fowl species?
A tricky query! As you get started birding, you additionally begin to shape a transparent listing of your favourite birds for your thoughts, such because the Black-backed Grosbeak. That fowl to me is an emblem of the place I come from as a birder.
However then there may be the Inexperienced-bearded Helmetcrest, essentially the most iconic species on the Sumapaz paramo birding hotspot. Each those species are only for Bogota, my native patch.
What’s your identify, and the place do you are living?
My identify is Luis García Cuartas and I are living in Bogotá, extra exactly on the Sumapaz paramo birding hotspot, the nation-state of the capital town.
What are the primary areas or places you duvet as a fowl information?
I’m a fowl information based totally in Bogota and specialize within the surrounding space together with the Western, Central, and Japanese Andes of Colombia. This stretches from the improbable and the biggest paramo on the planet at my native patch in Usme, throughout cloudy, humid, and dry forests upon the Andes of Colombia, to the valleys of the Magdalena and the Cauca rivers.
How lengthy have you ever been a fowl information?
5 improbable years.
How did you get into fowl guiding?
I were given into this whilst beginning a birding tourism corporate offering logistics and answers for the Sumapaz paramo birding hotspot. I used to be impressed through the folks touring to Colombia to look at birds and feature amusing – a complete new existence enjoy for me.
What are the sides of being a fowl information that you just like highest? Which sides do you dislike maximum?
For me, there´s one thing superb in birding and guiding within the cultural interchange whilst on a excursion: In fact, we communicate so much about birds, however we additionally percentage sides of our cultures and traditions, in addition to the context we are living in – this makes this kind of excursion an excellent richer enjoy. That and being open air respiring recent air and finding the wonders of nature is what I love highest. The one factor that I don’t like is that point flies when you have amusing.
What are the highest 5-10 birds for your area which might be essentially the most fascinating for visiting birders?
That is my choice of 10 objectives that you’ll be able to have in Bogotá and the environment in not up to every week:
- Inexperienced-bearded Helmetcrest – a member of the outstanding Helmetcrest crew of hummingbirds and one of the crucial 3 species present in Colombia, this fowl can also be seen within the Sumapaz páramo close to Bogotá
- Black Inca – we will be able to to find this hummer in Arcabuco Boyacá the place other folks name it “The prince of Arcabuco”
- Golden-bellied Starfrontlet, an astonishing hummingbird value playing, an actual jewel
- Sword-billed Hummingbird, smartly there’s no longer a lot to mention about this man, all the time spectacular within the highlands of Cundinamarca
- Bogotá Rail, an iconic, endangered however stunning endemic of Bogota.
- Black-billed Mountain-Toucan – the Mountain-Toucans are very horny birds which might be simple to find through voice and their colourful colours supply a distinction to the wooded area in Guasca
- Brown-breasted Parakeet, a flyby of a flock of those noisy and colourful parakeets is all the time a excitement, except for the Mountain Toucan, they’re the primary objectives of the world
- Muisca Antpitta, one of the crucial splits from Grallaria rufula is now another endemic to Colombia, limited to the japanese vary, you’ll be able to have this within the wild or at a feeding station
- Cundinamarca Antpitta, a stupendous discovery and one of the crucial latest endemic species of Colombia with a pleasing tale so that you can know
- Black-backed Grosbeak, El Rey del Bosque, a 12 months spherical lively fowl at Chiguaza Reserve in Bogota.
Are you able to define a minimum of one conventional birdwatching shuttle for your space? Please in short describe the places, the important thing birds, and the approximate period of this kind of shuttle
Bogotá Vintage Birding, every week within the Andean plateau finding superb birds visiting unbelievable habitats and iconic puts with the most productive of the native tastes and traditions.
Day 1: BOGOTÁ, Sumapaz paramo birding hotspot (3800 m asl), roadside birding + Chiguaza Reserve (2750 m asl) reforested grazing and feeding stations.
Objectives: Inexperienced-bearded Helmetcrest, Apolinar’s Wren, White-chinned Thistletail, Bronze-tailed Thornbill, Boyaca Antpitta, Noble Snipe, Buff-breasted Mountain Tanager, Black-chested Buzzard-Eagle, Black-backed Grosbeak, Rufous-browed Conebill, Inexperienced-tailed Trainbearer, Silvery-throated Spinetail, Scarlet-bellied Mountain Tanager.
Day 2: Guasca CUNDINAMARCA, Observatorio de Aves de Los Andes (3200 m asl), wooded area birding and feeding stations.
Sword-billed Hummingbird, Brown-breasted Parakeet, Muisca Antpitta, Black-billed Mountain-Toucan, Andean Potoo, Chestnut-bellied Chlorophonia, Mountain Velvetbreast, Red-mantled Woodpecker, Masked Trogon.
Day 3: Arcabuco BOYACA, Rogitama Biodiversidad (3000 m asl), reforested wooded area and feeding stations.
Black Inca, Lazuline Sabrewing, Gorgeted Woodstar, Brief-tailed Emerald, Southern-emerald Toucanet, Golden-fronted Redstart.
Day 4: Soacha CUNDINAMARCA, Chicaque Park (2000 m asl) cloud wooded area + Campo Tangara hummingbird observatory.
Golden-bellied Starfrontlet, Tourmaline Sunangel, Buff-tailed Coronet. Beryl-spangled Tanager, Blue-necked Tanager, Inexperienced-and-black Fruiteater, Plushcap, Black-eared Hemispingus, Collared Inca.
Day 5: Guayabetal CUNDINAMARCA, Sendero Los angeles Herrería (1200-2000 m asl) cloud wooded area and feeding stations.
Lengthy-tailed Sylph, Collared Inca, Bronze-tailed Inca, Cundinamarca Antpitta, Emerald-bellied Puffleg, Rufous-banded Owl, Lengthy-tailed Tapaculo, Noticed Barbtail
Rufous-banded Owl
Day 6: BOGOTÁ, Los angeles Florida Park (2600 m asl) wetland + Monserrate hill (3100 m asl) hummingbird observatory and Museo del Oro guided talk over with.
Bogota Rail, Spot-flanked Gallinule, Subtropical Doradito, Andean Duck, Black-tailed Trainbearer, Andean Guan, Blue-throated Starfrontlet, Shining Sunbeam, Sparkling Puffleg
The Bogota Vintage Birding Excursion can also be custom designed through combining it with the West and Central Andes, extending it to a ten to 12-day journey.
What different tips are you able to give to birders for your space?
- The most productive time for doing the “Bogotá Vintage Birding” is July thru September and December thru March
- Custom designed for photographers.
- Binoculars 10*42 and past paintings high quality.
- Scope supplied through me.
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