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COLOMBIA August 2009

From August 23 to 29, 2009, Sheridan Coffey and myself birded central Colombia using Medellin-based birding guide Pablo Flores Valencia click here to email Pablo.

We got lucky with the breeding Chestnut-crested Cotingas Ampelion rufaxilla currently located on the road above Jardin in the western Andes:-

This fine adult:



- was perched three feet from this fresh juvenile:




To complete the Ampelion set, here's a Red-crested Cotinga Ampelion rubrocristatus from Paramo del Ruiz, near Manizales: