This Brown Noddy was actively harassing the fisherman piloting this boat to the point where he ultimately was trying to swat it away. Maybe the tern thought he was a big fish? #birding #birdsseenin2026 although I think I already posted this one! #avesColombia

A black bird with a pale eye and astonishingly long and wavy toes sits on a white railing.

The Great-tailed grackle is perhaps not the rarest or most exciting of #bird species,but look at these toes! Are they all like this or is this one special? It’s like one of those Indian sadhus who never cut their fingernails! #avescolombia #birdsseenin2026 #birding

Bare-throated Tiger-heron along a channel through the mangroves on the Barú peninsula SW of Cartagena, showing off its astonishing vermiculations. #birdsseenin2026 #avescolombia #birding

I didn’t want to risk having my new camera jacked as I wandered some slightly sketchy mangroves this morning so you will have to make do with this stellar iphone photo of a Whimbrel for #avescolombia #birdsseenin2026 #birding #cartagena A country bird for me!

Here’s another one from my excellent trip last month to RN La Isla Escondida in Putumayo. Lemon-browed Flycatcher breeds right in the garden there, in disused oropendola nests. #birdsseenin2026 #AvesColombia #birding

Twin baby Tricolored herons in a remnant patch of mangrove in el Laguito, Cartagena, Bolívar. Surrounded by high-rise beachfront condo buildings, this tiny bit of salty woods is thick with roosting and breeding egrets and herons. #birds #birding #birdsseenin2025 #avescolombia

A chunky, yellow-breasted flycatcher perches on a utility wire, presenting the massive boat-like bill for which it is named, in profile. It has brownish wings, a dark mask, and a white eyestripe.

Although superficially similar to the superabundant Great Kiskadee, the Boat-billed Flycatcher is easily identified, given that it goes around looking like it has an overturned canoe stapled onto its face! #birds #birding #birdsseenin2025 #avesColombia. In Bolívar, Colombia, a couple weeks ago.

For #WoodpeckerWednesday here’s a Chestnut Piculet, one of the world’s smallest, and possibly the #birds I most wanted to see on my recent trip to #colombia. Many checklists elapsed without finding one, but finally, almost on my last day, there one was! #birdsseenin2025 #birding #avescolombia

Common Black Hawk, Barú Island, Bolívar, ten days ago. I already miss all those Colombian #birds! In a long weekend of #birding I managed to more than double the year list. #birdsseenin2025 #avescolombia

It’s hard to have a bad day if you see a Roseate Spoonbill in a flooded field on the way to your primary #birding destination. #birdsseenin2025 #avesColombia #birds This one on the way to Barú, just outside Cartagena.

For Woodpecker Monday (I couldn’t wait until
Wednesday) here’s a splendid female Crimson-crested yesterday at the criminally underbirded Reserva Luriza in Atlantico, CO. Superficially similar to Lineated Woodpecker but a much wider white cheek stripe. #birds #birding #birdsseenin2025 #avesColombia

It’s difficult for a bird to blend in better with the foliage than this Turquoise-winged Parrotlet in Atlantico, #colombia, yesterday. This one has only been on my life list for about four days, but I think I saw it on every day of the trip. #birdsseenin2025 #birds #avescolombia #birding

Stunning views of Crane Hawk yesterday at Reserva Luriza in Atlantico, and a great sound recording. Fantastic #birding in dry forest with massive riverine trees. #birds #birdsseenin2025 #avescolombia

Went straight from the airport in Cartagena to a patch of dry tropical forest that had looked pretty good on google earth. Found this Hooded Tanager, amongst other #birdsseenin2025 #avescolombia #birds #birding

A green-backed hummingbird sits on a lichen and epiphyte-dotted log, with its back to the viewer. It has a mid-length all-dark bill with a very gentle curve, a white spot behind the eye, and a prominent ochre-buff moustachial spot. Some of these features will prove to be important in correctly identifying the species.

Flashback almost exactly two years ago today to this #birding mis-identification and our long, puzzled, head-scratching session at Pro-Aves Arrierito Reserve in the Central Andes, northeast of Medellín. #avescolombia A #birds thread, with @birdingdaddy.bsky.social Yes, it's about #hummingbirds 1/👉

Golden-bellied Starfrontlet #birdsseenin2024 #birds #birding
#avesColombia Check out the jewelry on this dude!

A couple of familiar #birds from home are easier to see well in #avesColombia than the views I usually get back in #nycbirding, like this Blue-winged Teal and Eastern Meadowlark I saw in #Cundinamarca back in July. #birdsseenin2024 #birding

I don't have a photo of this moment, but to round out my #birding trip to #Colombia I had absolutely magical views of two very secretive Rusty-breasted Antpittas snuggling together on a log like one of those postcards of a pair of lovebirds. #birdsseenin2024 #birding #avesColombia 👉

At the very end of the afternoon, the light fading, I circled back for one last look at this patch of flowers. Suddenly, there it was, humming, near-motionless as it observed both me, and the nectar-giving tubes. An all black hummingbird, the Inca! #avesColombia, #birds, #birding #birdsseenin2024

All from the area of Guasca, Cundinamarca, in July, at various elevations, here's a hummingbird extravaganza for #birdsseenin2024 in #avesColombia. #birds #birding Tyrian Metaltail (F), Longuemare's Sunangel, Green-tailed Trainbearer and Bronze-tailed thornbill. All except the metaltail new for me.

A large turkey-like bird with a ruddy-brown body and a gray head perches on an epiphyte-laden branch.

Less than 100 yards from the toucan above I got my best looks ever at an Andean Guan. It's a good thing I am not a hunter, because this chunky game bird just sat quietly looking at me while I snapped a whole series of pictures. #birds #birding #avesColombia #birdsseenin2024

A small grayish-black bird sits on a narrow tree branch, singing its heart out.

Next up is Slaty Finch. On the same #birding trip, in the cloud forests of Cundinamarca on 7/13, the chusquea bamboo was in seed. These #birds are rarely away from seeding bamboo and can be devilish to track down! #birdsseenin2024 #avesColombia I also got 5⭐️ recordings of this seldom recorded burb!

I reported it in #eBird as "dacnis sp.," meaning "some kind of dacnis, species uncertain," and wrote my suspicions in the notes. I'm forever grateful to eBird moderator Jorge Muñoz Garcia, who took a look and wrote to tell me that my I.D was correct! #birds #birding #avesColombia #citizenscience