I was planning to go to Peru in 2022 but there were riots and road closures in the areas we were planning to go. So at the last minute I went back to Colombia and saw some other places.
Unfortunately, there was a lot of overlap, so I did not get a lot of new birds on the trip. However, many areas now have set up feeding stations and several were built for photography. I used the same guide Pablo Florez and I had my daughter with me on the trip this year.
However on the bright side, the setups for photography and the number of places that had feeders allowed me to get many improved photos of birds I had not so good photos before.
I only saw 3 warblers on the trip and none were new to me. The 5.3" Black-crested Warbler (Myiothlypis nigrocristatus) is an all yellow-olive warbler with a black cap.
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| Black-crested Warbler |
His cousin is the 5.5" Russet-crowned Warbler (Myiothlypis coronatus). He is yellow with a gray head and orange central stripe.
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| Russet-crowned Warbler |
The last one is the beautiful 5" Golden-fronted Whitestart (Myioborus ornatus). He is gray backed and a bright yellow face and underparts. And as he is a whitestart, he has white edges on his tail.
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| Golden-fronted Whitestart |
There were 2 cardinal species for the trip. Both of these were formerly in the tanager family. The 7" male Crested Ant Tanager (Habia cristata) sure looks like our Northern Cardinal.
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| Crested Ant Tanager - male |
The other is the 7" Tooth-billed Tanager (Piranga lutea). It it looks familiar to you, it is not surprising as the Hepatic Tanager complex was split into 3 species - this is one of them and I did not know the name when the guide told me this bird. There is still some controversy about this 3 way split, but IOC has done it. So if the split is upheld - it is a lifer for me.
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| Tooth-billed Tanager - male |
There were also 2 thrushes for the trip. Both I had seen previously. The 9" Pale-breasted Thrush (Turdus leucomelas) is a brown backed thrush with gray underparts.
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| Pale-breasted Thrush |
His cousin the 8.5" Black-billed Thrush (Turdus ignobilis) is similar but white below and a black bill.
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| Black-billed Thrush |
Lastly is the cute 4" Grass Wren (Cistothorus platensis). Again, this is a split from the Sedge Wren complex and many more splits are proposed as the 'Sedge Wren' had many subspecies from Canada to Argentina and the Falkland Islands.
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| Grass Wren |
I put the different bird/mammal families in single folders for easy viewing
David McDonald
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