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COLOMBIA: MITU Independent Budget Birding May 6-16, 2017 Colombia: Mitu Independent Budget Birding May 6-16, 2017 Ross & Melissa Gallardy www.budgetbirders.com Summary: Overview: Having visited most of Colombia earlier this year, my wife and I decided to visit Mitu for 10 days to look for the regional endemics and specialties. Although Mitu still remains somewhat of a logistical challenge, I do not think it is nearly as bad as some reports allude to, and I definitely think independent birders should have no problem visiting without the help of bird tour operators or local “tourism” companies. That being said, we did use local “guide” Nacho to coordinate logistics/access, but this was also a bit of a hassle (more on that later). Overall, the trip was a success with 275 species and almost all of our main targets accounted for. Jon Gallagher joined us for the trip, so by splitting costs amongst three people, the overall cost was ~$500 per person for 10 days of birding. Weather: May is considered the beginning of the rainy season and we were a bit hesitant about getting rained out despite both Beck and Athanas visiting during the same time of year. The weather forecast looked really bad, but fortunately we lost very little birding time due to rain. Most days we experienced short thunderstorms and a decent amount of rain overnight. We only lost one full afternoon due to rain. Birding Overview: In total we recorded 275 species including Gray-bellied Antbird, Chestnut-crested Antbird, Orinoco Piculet, Azure- naped Jay, Guanian Cock-of-the-Rock, Tawny-tufted Toucanet, Fiery Topaz, Pompadour Cotinga, Black Manakin, Pavonine Quetzal, Black Bushbird, and 4 species of puffbirds (Spotted, Pied, Brown-banded, and Chestnut-capped). Overall, birding was very difficult at times and being familiar with songs/calls was very important. Birding white sands forests can be quite boring at times and the forest was absolutely dead for long periods of the day. A lot of the better birds were found using playback and trolling was very necessary since I (and Nacho) didn’t know exact spots of targets. I never heard a Gray-bellied Antbird sing spontaneously (when they did respond to playback it was almost always with the call and not the song, so learn that). The Chestnut-crested Antbirds were also only found by playback (and not at an ant swarm), and I trolled a ridiculous amount for puffbirds. Although we did quite well with puffbirds, it took 8 days and lots of trolling before I finally found my first Brown-banded Puffbird on Day 8 (and also had a pair spontaneously calling on Day 9, go figure). Black Manakin was also very difficult for some reason. I put in a lot of effort in both Bocatoma and Mitu Cachaveria and didn’t see a single one. The only pair seen was at Santa Marta. We also struggled with finding flowering trees. Had Diego not told us about Puente Lata, we would have dipped Fiery Topaz. And this lack of flowers resulted in no Jewelfronts, Woodstars, or Thorntails! Dips: Biggest dip of the trip was Bar-bellied Woodcreeper. I trolled all day every day for this species, but never got a response. I also tried a good bit for White-naped Seedeater, but this species doesn’t seem to be available in Mitu anymore. Other big misses were Ivory-billed Aracari, Black-bellied Throntail (very little flowering trees were found), White-bellied Dacnis, and Purple-breasted Cotinga. Although we heard a number of tinamous, we never heard Gray-legged Tinamou. Acknowledgments: Thanks to Jon Gallagher for joining on the trip and Diego Calderon for providing very useful information for the Fiery Topaz. Also thanks to the authors of the trip reports listed below for the valuable information. Resources: Websites: As usual, xeno-canto, cloudbirders, and ebird were extremely valuable resources in researching and preparing for the trip. A few trip reports that were referenced (to varying degrees of usefulness) are included below. Also, there is a link to our website, which has blog entries written on our 10 day trip, though overall, for someone looking for information, this report will be more helpful than the blog (but still check out the blog!). Ebird is rapidly becoming an extremely useful tool on seeing recent sightings before leaving on a trip, but sadly, most people remain extremely vague in their checklists. All of my ebird checklists include GPS coordinates or detailed information for target birds and I encourage others visiting these areas to do the same. Even quick notes about where on a trail or a km mark can be extremely helpful for those not familiar with the area. www.ebird.org: all checklists from the trip including numerous pictures and audio recordings can be searched for on ebird www.xeno-canto.org: Recordings for the trip were downloaded from here, my recordings will eventually be added www.cloudbirder.com: Access to dozens of trip repots. Below are a few I took with me. Books/Reports: Mitu: Pritam Baruah 2014 Mitu: Athanas, 2011 Birds of Passage, Mitu: Josh Beck & Kathi Borgmann, 2015 www.budgetbirders.com: blog posts from this trip along with my prior travels can be found here GPS: For those who don’t own a GPS, buy one. The Garmin Etrex 30 is extremely easy to use and I feel is essential to any independently traveling birder. Using a GPS and a set of coordinates helps to eliminate the guess work in directions and really makes it easier for others to find the same location. In this report I try to use GPS coordinates as much as possible and once again, encourage others to do the same. I’m always amazed to pick up a “bird site guide” and find detailed (though usually confusing or inaccurate directions) when all someone needs to do is write a few quick notes and provide a list of GPS way points. It is also very easy to download free open source maps online for use in both car GPSs and handhelds (such as the Garmin Etrex30). I’ve used these open source maps throughout the world and have found them extremely accurate in most circumstances and they are free! OSM Map: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin/Download: Download maps from around the world for Garmin Logistics: General Info: About a month prior to the trip, I was given the contact info for Zaiza of Etnobirding Vaupes. She originally quoted me a price of 4,000,000 pesos ($1,400!!!) per person (all inclusive) and then after I said I only wanted a quote for transportation via tuk-tuk, access fees, and guide fees, she came back with a price of 2,100,000 ($742!) per person. I’m not sure why she tried to charge so much as I know two years prior, a group coordinated logistics through them and the price was much more reasonable. Apparently Mitu is trying to take a page out of ProAves’s playbook when it comes to charging outrageous amounts for subpar service. So don’t even bother contacting Zaiza or Etnobirding Vaupes unless you enjoy paying 3x the cost. Anyways, after I told her I wasn’t interested, I contacted Nacho who is referenced in a few reports. I didn’t hear anything back for two weeks and was then sent a fairly well organized pdf and excel sheet discussing prices, itinerary, and additional info. It looked fairly good, so I agreed with Nacho and told him to be there to pick us up when we arrived. Below I will cover more details. Guiding: Nacho is not a bird guide. Even though in his information he says “expert bird guiding”, he is not one. Luckily I didn’t really care if I had a guide, but if you aren’t knowledgeable on Amazonian birds or want someone who knows locations, make sure you get a different guide. Nacho knew all the trails, but very little else. He is a very nice guy, but also a bit disorganized. In the itinerary he sent us, it said we would be going to Pueblo Nuevo twice, but when we said we wanted to go back, he said we couldn’t (unless we paid a lot more money). After a long discussion and threating to cancel the rest of the trip with him and the driver (it was half way through the trip), he agreed to a second day in the Pueblo Nuevo area. Since he was charging us $35 to be our “bird guide” I made him carry my scope (to be honest he offered, and since he was bringing nothing else to the table, I didn’t feel bad). Oddly, most of the time he lingered 50-100 meters behind us, but when we would be near a clearing, he would help us look for cotingas. The good news is that unlike other reports stating that the guide expects to be fed, Nacho brought his own food and never asked us to feed him. Cost $35 per day, $350 in total. Nacho ran be reached at [email protected] Transportation: I thought we would be getting a tuk-tuk, but when I arrived, Nacho had coordinated for a 4x4 Toyota and driver, Wilson. I was hesitant at first, but since there were three of us and he was only charging $250 for the 10 days, I agreed. That being said, in no way do you need a 4x4 for the entire time. If you don’t want to deal with the hassle, this would be a good option, but the cheapest way would be to take tuk-tuks to all of the locations except for Pueblo Nuevo.
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