Columbia (for starters) - Oasis - Part One

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The advice would be if you are planning a holiday or other break to South America don't just go for just a week-end!! My second trip there in 2009 did have some simitary about it, but after a 2 weeks Organised Birding Tour in Colombia the rest lay very much in the lap of the gods! Impossible to pick the Best of the Bunch there as just about every one qualified but for example

BLUE-NAPED CHLOPHONIA

CESTNUT-CROWNED ANTPITTA
and

TOURMALINE SUNANGEL
if only for its name.
During that process contact was made, via Birding Pals, a worldwide organisation for fellow Birders to guide visitors with no fee but on the understanding that both Fuel and Food would be paid for, and enter David Escanio and his side-kick Bruno in the capital of

VENEZUALA - CARACAS

APLOMADO HAWKs
where we covered many, many dozons of square miles

WHITE-HEADED MARSH TYRANT

including 'Saluting the Man Himself'

WHITE-TAILED DEER
common across much of the Americas.

BROWN-THROATED PARAKEET

City Centre

MASKED CARDINAL

CAPIBARI

YELLOW-CROWNED PARROT

HORNED SCREAMER

SAFFRON FINCH

Caracas Cascade

GREAT POTOO

WHISTLING HERON

BARE-EYED THRUSH

GIANT TORTOISE

BLUE-and-YELLOW MACAW

JABIRU

GREEN IGUANA

CAPPED HERON
and finally, until next Sunday, when we had a Lucky Escape

CHESTNUT-FRONTED MACAWl