Colombia: Central

With more than 1,900 species having been recorded in the country, including no fewer than 80 endemics, Colombia is truly a birder’s paradise, where flocks of beautiful tanagers, endemic and unique birds, skulking antpittas and tapaculos, challenging tyrant-flycatchers, colorful cotingas and trogons, sparkling hummingbirds and so much more await.

Over the last decade, ecotourism has developed strongly in Colombia, and birdwatchers are welcome everywhere. Feeding stations have sprung up all over the country and it’s now possible to admire and photograph dozens of species of buzzing hummingbirds or multicolored tanagers while sipping a cup of Colombian coffee! Even shy antpittas are fed with worms and can be observed up close, sometimes just one or two meters away!

Our Central Colombia tour explores the Eastern and Central Cordilleras and the Magdalena Valley. We’ll visit a variety of habitats from high-altitude páramo with Espeletia and montane humid forests of both cordilleras to tropical dry forests in the Magdalena Valley. We’ll enjoy a relaxed pace, alternating between walks in natural environments and pauses for quiet observation of hummingbirds and tanagers – a fantastic introduction to Colombia, and to South America in general.

This tour can be taken in conjunction with Colombia: The West.