Saturday, September 7, 2019

Cari Cari Colombia Day 4 (31Jul2019)

On Day 4 we spent our last full day in the Riohacha area with a long session at a place called Cari Cari.  This was an epic walk down a dirt road with no traffic starting in thorn scrub then meandering past some ponds and eventually ending at some wetlands. When all was said and done we had close to 100 species in 4 hours.


Our only Striped Cuckoo of the trip was just barely close enough for a photo.


Glaucous Tanagers


Rufous-browed Peppershrike


White-collared Swift


You will be glad to hear that these pictures with weird pixellation will be a thing of the past for me.  I just purchased a new EOS 7D.



Red-billed Emerald


Chestnut Piculet


Trinidad Euphonia and not sure about the other one but maybe a Blue-black Grassquit.


White-whiskered Spinetail - we had three different species of spinetail.


Chestnut Piculets again.


Male Pileated Finch


Rufous-tailed Jacamar


Yellow Oriole



Blue-black Grassquit


Yellow-chinned Spinetail


Spot-breasted Woodpecker


Yellow-hooded Blackbird


Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl


Bare-faced Ibis


Wattled Jacana


Dwarf Cuckoo


Green-rumped Parrotlet


Savannah Hawk


Black-collared Hawk


Black-crested Antshrike


Gray Seedeater


Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture



Greater Anis


Green Ibis



The bird of the day (not mine) was a Blue-winged Teal mainly because it was out of season.


Red-breasted Meadowlark - I had wandered off from the group a bit and was the only one to see these specialty birds.  I tried to get the group but the birds had left before they could peep them.


Pale-breasted Spinetail



Barred Antshrike



Wattled Jacana


Tropical Gnatcatcher


Birding in Colombia is mentally exhausting.  So many lifers... and only in about 4 hours.  Virgilio was waiting for us with a nice picnic lunch and some coffee.. Awesome.

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