ENJOY AND DISCOVERY THE BIRDWATCHING IN CHINGAZA NATIONAL PARK AND OBSERVATORIO DE COLIBRIES
Morning (5:30am).
We will depart to Chingaza National Park (Rincon del Oso area). This incredible place is located only one hour and half away from Bogota. We will be birding here all the day exploring Paramo and moorland ecosystems at a altitude of aproximadly 2800-3400m. in searching for: Coppery-bellied Puffleg, Bronze-tailed Thornbill, Glowing Puffleg, Longuemare´s Sunangel, Blue throated Starfrontlet, Tyrian Metaltail, Sword-billed hummingbird, Mountain Velvetbreast, Great sapphirewing.
Endemic Birds: Silvery-throated Spinetail.
Near-Endemic Birds: Blue-throated Starfrontlet, Matorral Tapaculo, Golden-faced Whitestart, Coopery-bellied Puffleg and Black-billed Mountain-Toucan.
Other target birds: Andean Siskin, Black-headed Hemispingus, Rufous Antpitta, Noble Snipe, Black Backed Grosbeak, Rufous Browed Conebill, Eastern Meadowlark, White-chinned Thistletail, Scarlet-bellied Mountain-Tanager, Slaty-backed Chat-Tyrant, Plumbeous Sierra Finch and many more birds!!!
Afternoon.
After the lunch, we will move to the municipality La Calera where this is probably the most amazing lodge you can find in around the Bogota for to see the very rare and endemic hummingbirds (45′ since Bogota!!!) in eastern andes. La Calera is found an altitude of approximately at 2700m. https://www.observatoriodecolibries.com/
Other target birds: Blue-throated Starfrontlet (Coeligena helianthea), Coppery-bellied Puffleg (Eriocnemis cupreoventris), Sword-billed Hummingbird (Ensifera ensifera), Amethyst-throated Sunangel (Heliangelus amethysticollis), Speckled Hummingbird (Adelomyia melanogenys), Purple-backed Thornbill (Ramphomicron microrhynchum), Great Sapphirewing (Pterophanes cyanopterus), Black-tailed Trainbearer (Lesbia victoriae), Green-tailed Trainbearer (Lesbia nuna), Mountain Velvetbreast (Lafresnaya lafresnayi), White-bellied woodstar (Chaetocercus mulsant), Tyrian metaltail (Metallura tyrianthina), Glowing Puffleg (Eriocnemis vestita), Colibri coruscans, Colibri thalassinus and many more birds!!!
Return to Bogota D.C. in the afternoon (Around 5:00pm)
