
Photo: Juan Diego Castillo

Photo: Anderson Muñoz

Photo: Juan Diego Castillo

IDEAS
SITES

SPECIES
TIMES
COLOMBIAN ISOLATED ENDEMICS – WESTERN ANDES, CHOCO/PACIFIC SLOPE & SIERRA NEVADA DE SANTA MARTA (13 DAYS)
This tour will take you to the heart of Colombia’s two highest-rated birding zones – the Choco Andes transition, where everything you see is endemic (see Bangsia’s) or near-endemic (many only shared with Ecuador), birding along one of the great roads in the Neotropics – the fabled old road to Buenaventura in the Anchicaya Valley that was immortalized in Steven Hilty’s ‘A Guide To The Birds of Colombia’. Finish off in the mystical and biologically unique Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta – an evolutionary island of biodiversity where you have the chance to view over 20 endemics that occur in the San Lorenzo Ridge area.
OVERVIEW
Day 1: Arrive in Bogotá
Day 2: Fly to Pereira, transfer to Pueblo Rico and Montezuma
Lodge, PNN Tatama
Day 3: Montezuma
Day 4: Montezuma
Day 5: Montezuma, transfer to Cali
Day 6: El Queremal – Alto Anchicayá
Day 7: Anchicayá lowlands
Day 8: KM 18. Evening flight to Santa Marta
Day 9: Minca
Day 10: Santa Marta Highlands
Day 11: El Dorado and San Lorenzo ridge
Day 12: El Dorado transfer to Barranquilla or fly to Bogotá
Day 13: Fly home

Golden-chested Tanager (E)
Photo: Anderson Muñoz
ITINERARY IDEAS
- A coffee farm tour and coffee tasting in the UNESCO Colombian Coffee Cultural Landscape
- Spa hotel with private beach stay near Santa Marta
- Great restaurants, market visits and Salsa music in Cali
KEY SITES
- Montezuma Lodge & Road (PNN Tatama)
- El Queremal – Alto Anchicaya
- Anchicaya Valley Lowlands
- KM 18 & San Antonio cloud forest
- Minca – El Dorado Road
- El Dorado Reserve
- San Lorenzo Ridge – Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
TARGET SPECIES
- Gold-ringed Tanager (E)
- Black and Gold Tanager (E)
- Multicolored Tanager (E)
- Toucan Barbet
- Black Solitaire
- Golden-collared Honeycreeper
- Santa Marta Tapaculo (E)
- Santa Marta Brush-finch (E)
- Santa Marta Mountain Tanager (E)
- Santa Marta Wood-Wren (E)
BEST TIME OF YEAR TO TRAVEL
Early November – Late March, June and July
UPON REQUEST
WHY BOOK
COLOMBIA’S BIRDS
We know Colombia’s birds and localities intimately, ensuring a high-quality birding experience, wherever the tour takes you.

QUALITY LEADERS
Our birding leaders are among Colombia’s best and most experienced – all have a mixture of great personality, eyes and ears for catching all those targets!

ONLY SMALL GROUPS
We focus on small group travel to ensure the best viewing opportunities possible and more personalised birding experience.
OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE
We have vast experience in operating tours in Colombia across a range of niches – those small details that make all the difference come as standard.

PRICES
Always competitive and we cut no corners.
