Nature & Birding Tour Cali

09/01/2026

The Golden-browed Chlorophonia is confined to southern Central America, where it ranges from northern Costa Rica south to western Panama. Males are striking and easily identified birds with bright grass green upperparts, throat and upper breast, while the rest of the underparts and broad supercilium are yellow; there is also a patch of bright green on the lower flanks, and the crown is blue. Females are somewhat less distinctive, but share the blue crown and nape, and have some yellow on the underparts, but are otherwise mainly green. The species is typically uncommon and somewhat local, being found in the canopy of highland forests above 750 m elevation.

10/05/2024

29/03/2024

Golden-browed Chlorophonia - Chlorophonia callophrys

The Golden-browed Chlorophonia is confined to southern Central America, where it ranges from northern Costa Rica south to western Panama.

23/3/2024

03/01/2024

A little taste of our local birdwatching tour Nature & Birding Tour Cali in our beautiful Tayutic district we visited, Calle morados, base of silent mountain, Tayutic Mountain Reserve and ended with a delicious lunch at Hotel Rivel - Adventure & Nature Retreat

19/11/2023

Talamanca Hummingbird

Costa Rica Birding Tour October & November 2023

What is now the Talamanca hummingbird Eugenes spectabilis was originally described as a subspecies of the magnificent hummingbird (E. fulgens). Beginning in 2017 the North American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society (NACC), the International Ornithological Committee (IOC), and the Clements taxonomy split the magnificent hummingbird into the Talamanca hummingbird and Rivoli's hummingbird. The latter retained the binomial E. fulgens because of the principle of priority. However, as of 2020, BirdLife International's Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW) retains the single species "magnificent" hummingbird treatment with two subspecies.

19/11/2023

Lesser violetear

Costa Rica Birding Tour October & November 2023

The lesser violetear belongs to the order Apodiformes. Hummingbirds share this order with the swifts, such as the white-collared swift. The name Apodiformes is derived from the Greek words "a pous", meaning "without foot". While apodiforms do in fact have feet, they are quite small and their legs are short and relatively weak. Many birds in this order cannot walk, and thus rarely if ever land on the ground since quick escape from predators is virtually impossible. For this reason members of this order spend a majority of their time in the air.

19/11/2023

Chestnut-colored woodpecker

Costa Rica Birding Tour October & November 2023.

The chestnut-colored woodpecker is 21.5 to 25 cm (8.5 to 9.8 in) long and weighs 80 to 105 g (2.8 to 3.7 oz). Both sexes' heads are dull ochraceous or tawny with a pointed crest. Males are bright red from the lores to behind the eye and down to the throat; the chin and upper throat sometimes also have some red. Females have no red. Both sexes of adults have rufous-chestnut upperparts with a cinnamon-buff rump and black bars on the back and uppertail coverts. Their flight feathers are rufous-chestnut with some dusky brown tips. Their tail feathers are dull black with chestnut bases. Their underparts are chestnut heavily marked with black "V" or "U" shapes. Individuals have some variation in the intensity of the black markings, especially the bars on their upperparts. The adult's bill is ivory-yellow with a blue-green tinge at its base, their iris chestnut or garnet brown, and their legs dark olive to grayish. Juveniles are similar to adults but duller and darker overall, with dusky mottling on the malar area, and fewer and more irregular black marks on their underparts.



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17/10/2023

A large number of species are being observed in VA. It is time for the arrival of migratory birds and also residents with a larger influx.
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17/10/2023

Birding morning at Vista Aves and also having a delicious typical breakfast.