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Responsible Birding in Colombia with Jaguarundi Travel

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10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. My name is Rene Montero Serrano, I was born in Colombia and I have been a nature travel explorer since I was a kid. Now the project has grown and we have been operating for more than 10 years.

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Araucana Lodge in Colombia

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10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. Colombia, the birdiest country on the planet, occupies only 0.8% of the world’s landmass and is home to almost 20% of the world’s species. We look forward to hosting you!

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Check out Birding Experiences in Costa Rica

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10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. Birding Experiences is a Costa Rican company owned and run by enthusiastic birdwatchers from Costa Rica. We want to help the birding tourism industry come back strong from the COVID pandemic.

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Surpassing 300 Species in Costa Rica on Global Big Day, 2019

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Reschedule that visit to the in-laws, cancel the company picnic and drop everything else because GBD is in the house! This happens in Peru, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica and other major birdy places because GBD isn’t just viewed as a day to watch birds. Need to do laundry? Paint the porch? Go to traffic school? Scarlet Macaw ?

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Spectacular Birding on Cerro Montezuma

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What happens when you visit one of the best birdwatching sites in the region with the highest number of endemic bird species in the Americas in the world’s birdiest country? How else can I describe two days at Cerro Montezuma in Colombia. We spied 11 tanager species including the highly coveted Black-and-gold Tanager.

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Tremendous Torrent Ducks

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On a recent filming trip to Colombia with Aderman (my notorious/nefarious videographer), Birding Tours Colombia and Richard Crossley, I was fortunate enough to see some of this death-wish behavior first-hand. Otun Quimbaya remains a very good place to view this highly enigmatic and entertaining species.

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Birding the Rainforest Canopy

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The lure of an staggering number of species at a particular location is a draw for many people. In fact, the number of “heard only” annotations next to a species names is more frequent in bird list resulting from rainforest birding than birding in any other habitat type. Birding in the Amazon Rainforest has its pros and cons.

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