Escape to Colombia’s Mountains
May 17 to 24, 2027
Your place on this Venture is reserved with your completed registration and deposit of $700/person are submitted. Deposit may be made via the ‘book now’ button above, or by contacting the Ventures office. We accept credit cards for an additional fee (2.9% for MC, Visa, Discover; 3.9% for AmEx), but you may also pay by bank transfer via our website. If paying by cash, check, or money order (payable to ‘VENTURES BIRDING’), please mail in your payment with a paper registration form to PO Box 1095, Skyland, NC 28776, or contact our office. This Venture is limited to 10 participants.
During this incredible adventure in the mountains of Colombia, we will have the opportunity to see plenty of Hummingbirds, Tanagers, Antpittas, and Tapaculos. During this short, easy trip it will be possible to encounter more than 300 species of birds, including the most iconic endemic ones in breathtaking colorful landscapes such as the Bicolored Antpitta, Brown-banded Antpitta, Brown-breasted Parakeet, Buffy Helmetcrest, Cauca Guan, Chestnut Wood-Quail, Crested Ant-Tanager, Greyish Piculet, Multicolored Tanager, Parker´s Antbird, Rufous-fronted Parakeet, Silvery-throated Spinetail, Stile´s Tapaculo, Tolima Blossomcrown, Tolima Dove and Yellow-headed Brush-Finch. We will bird parts of the El Nevado del Ruiz volcano above 4000 MSL, visit the principal coffee region of Colombia, a World Heritage Site (UNESCO) and taste the best coffee in the world, and get a real chance to witness a show with the highly difficult to see Antpittas in Rio Blanco.
Join Mark for this unforgettable Venture to Colombia's Andes!
Cost of Colombia Venture $4,500 per person, based on double occupancy. Single supplement - $700.
Colombia hosts the highest diversity of bird species of any country in the world with just under 2,000! This is primarily due to an incredibly varied geography packed into a relatively small area. From the spectacular Andes mountains to the vast tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands of the Llanos in the east; the pacific coast and the Choco ecoregion, an amazingly biodiverse area that receives some of the highest rainfall totals in the world, to the Caribbean coast and the isolated Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta; and the undisturbed lowland rainforests of the Amazon, Colombia is home to some world class birding areas. On this venture we will be escaping to the bird-rich mountains of central Colombia.
Birds We Hope to See
Our target species include the Torrent Duck and Cauca Guan, Chestnut Wood-Quail, Colombian Screech-Owl, Hooded Antpitta, Scrub Tanager, Red-ruffed Fruitcrow, the elusive and endangered endemic – the Multicolored Tanager, Crested Ant-Tanager, Greyish Piculet, Rufous-breasted Flycatcher, and Collared Trogon, Indigo-winged (Fuerte´s) Parrot, Agile Tit-Tyrant, Barred Fruiteater, Guira Tanager, Moustached Puffbird, Scrub Tanager, Brown-banded Antpitta, Bicolored Antpitta, Black-billed Mountain-Toucan, White-throated Daggerbill, Dusky Piha, Buffy Helmetcrest, Rainbow-bearded Thornbill, Buff-winged Starfrontlet, Rufous-fronted Parakeet, Golden-fronted Redstart, Purple-backed Thornbill, Crescent-faced Antpitta, Grey-breasted Mountain Toucan, Black-thighed Puffleg, Sword-billed Hummingbird, Bar-bellied Woodpecker, Golden-plumed Parakeet, Ocellated Tapaculo, Black-collared Jay, Black-and-gold Tanager, Gold-ringed Tanager, Purplish-mantled Tanager, Munchique Wood-Wren, Chestnut-bellied Flowerpiercer, Tatamá Tapaculo, Toucan Barbet, Fulvous-dotted Treerunner, Yellow-breasted Antpitta, Choco Tapaculo, Nariño Tapaculo, Black Solitaire, Tanager Finch, Orange breasted Fruiteater, Yellow-collared Chlorophonia and Greyish Piculet and many, many more.
