PhotoNatura Colombia

Purplish-mantled Tanager
Musguerito gargantilla
Iridosornis porphyrocephalus

The outstanding male of White tipped Quetzal, an inhabitant of well preserved Cloud forest of the mountains of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia

Gray throated leaftosser
Raspahojas gorgigris
Sclerurus albogularis

A small and secretive species of cloud forest understory.
It hunts small insects on the ground and nest in cavities in banks

Orinoco Saltator
Saltator del orinoco

American flamingo
Flamenco del caribe
Phoenicopterus ruber

Brown throated sloth
Perezoso de tres dedos
Bradypus variegatus

A female with her baby slow but firmly moving in the canopy where they look like a part of a tree

Northern scrub flycatcher
Atrapamoscas rastrojero
Sublegatus arenarum

Nesting season in the north of the country

Tortolita escamada
Scaled dove
Columbina squammata

A quite common dove of lowland dry forest, shrubby areas and gardens, with a beautiful patern in its plumage

Orejivioleta marron
Brown violetear
Colibri delphinae

A common species of hummingbird in forest edge and gardens in mid and high elevatio.
Unusual due to its lack of gren plumage

Ruddy quial dove
Geotrygon montana
Paloma perdiz rojiza

Pale bellied Hermit
Phaethornis anthophilus
Ermitaño carinegro

Tawny breasted Tinamou
Nothocercus julius
Tinamu leonado

This rare and difficult to see bird inhabits dense forest mostly in high elevation andean mountains
Possible to see thanks to the efforts of doña Lucia and her son Martin at Mirador el Roble near Jardin town, Antioquia

Scarlet Tanager
Tangara escarlata
Piranga olivacea

A migrant tanager from north america, getting ready to fly up north from the Santa Marta mountains

Slate-colored Seedeater
Espiguero pizzarra
Sporophila schistacea

A rare seedeater of forest edge and clearings that feeds on bamboo seeds

White-throated Daggerbill, female
Schistes albogularis
Pico de cuña occidental, hembra

A not so common hummingbird of highland andean forest in the central and western andes of Colombia. This species does not visir feeders

Masked Flowerpiercer
Pinchaflor enmascarado
Diglossa cyanea

A fairly common floweepiercer of highland cloud forest in the andean region

Viridian Metaltail, female
Metallura williami
Metalura verde, hembra

A small high elevation hummingbird that inhabits Cloud forest in Colombia and Ecuador

Mimus gilvus
Tropical mockingbird
Sinsonte comun

A very common species of lowland open areas

Stripe-throated Hermit
Ermitaño enano
Phaethornis striigularis

A very small hummingbird of tropical humid forest

Grass Wren
Cucarachero sabanero
Cistothorus platensis

A small and secretive wren of high elevation grassland

Northern White-fringed Antwren
Formicivora intermedia

Realeza guajira
Vermilion cardinal
Rey guajiro
Cardinalis phoeniceus

Realeza guajira
Vermilion cardinal
Rey guajira
Cardinalis phoeniceus

Carpinterito escamado
Scaled Piculet
Picumnus squamulatus

A tiny woodpecker that inhabits dry and humid tropical forest in the north and east of the country

Always a beauty and elegant

Golden-winged sparrow
Pinzon alidorado
Arremon schegeli

Blue black grossbeak
Azulon silvicola
Cyanoloxia cyanoides

Rufous-fronted parakeet
Periquito frentirufo
Bolborhynchus ferrugineifrons

This small highland parakeet inhabits paramo and subparamo in the central andean range of Colombia where it moves in small groups feeding quietly on small shrub berries

Trogon enmascarado
Masked Trogon
Trogon personatus

Andean Solitaire
Solitario Andino
Myadestes ralloides

A beautiful singer of andean cloud forest

Blue and black Tanager
Tangara Azul y Negra
Tangara vassorii

A very common tanager of Andean cloud forest, usually with mixed flocks