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Costa Rica 2020
Sunrise Birding LLC COSTA RICA TRIP REPORT January 30 – February 5, 2020 Photos: Talamanca Hummingbird, Sunbittern, Resplendent Quetzal, Congenial Group! Sunrise Birding LLC COSTA RICA TRIP REPORT January 30 – February 5, 2020 Leaders: Frank Mantlik & Vernon Campos Report and photos by Frank Mantlik Highlights and top sightings of the trip as voted by participants Resplendent Quetzals, multi 20 species of hummingbirds Spectacled Owl 2 CR & 32 Regional Endemics Bare-shanked Screech Owl 4 species Owls seen in 70 Black-and-white Owl minutes Suzy the “owling” dog Russet-naped Wood-Rail Keel-billed Toucan Great Potoo Tayra!!! Long-tailed Silky-Flycatcher Black-faced Solitaire (& song) Rufous-browed Peppershrike Amazing flora, fauna, & trails American Pygmy Kingfisher Sunbittern Orange-billed Sparrow Wayne’s insect show-and-tell Volcano Hummingbird Spangle-cheeked Tanager Purple-crowned Fairy, bathing Rancho Naturalista Turquoise-browed Motmot Golden-hooded Tanager White-nosed Coati Vernon as guide and driver January 29 - Arrival San Jose All participants arrived a day early, staying at Hotel Bougainvillea. Those who arrived in daylight had time to explore the phenomenal gardens, despite a rain storm. Day 1 - January 30 Optional day-trip to Carara National Park Guides Vernon and Frank offered an optional day trip to Carara National Park before the tour officially began and all tour participants took advantage of this special opportunity. As such, we are including the sightings from this day trip in the overall tour report. We departed the Hotel at 05:40 for the drive to the National Park. En route we stopped along the road to view a beautiful Turquoise-browed Motmot. -
Ornithological Surveys in Serranía De Los Churumbelos, Southern Colombia
Ornithological surveys in Serranía de los Churumbelos, southern Colombia Paul G. W . Salaman, Thomas M. Donegan and Andrés M. Cuervo Cotinga 12 (1999): 29– 39 En el marco de dos expediciones biológicos y Anglo-Colombian conservation expeditions — ‘Co conservacionistas anglo-colombianas multi-taxa, s lombia ‘98’ and the ‘Colombian EBA Project’. Seven llevaron a cabo relevamientos de aves en lo Serranía study sites were investigated using non-systematic de los Churumbelos, Cauca, en julio-agosto 1988, y observations and standardised mist-netting tech julio 1999. Se estudiaron siete sitios enter en 350 y niques by the three authors, with Dan Davison and 2500 m, con 421 especes registrados. Presentamos Liliana Dávalos in 1998. Each study site was situ un resumen de los especes raros para cada sitio, ated along an altitudinal transect at c. 300- incluyendo los nuevos registros de distribución más m elevational steps, from 350–2500 m on the Ama significativos. Los resultados estabilicen firme lo zonian slope of the Serranía. Our principal aim was prioridad conservacionista de lo Serranía de los to allow comparisons to be made between sites and Churumbelos, y aluco nos encontramos trabajando with other biological groups (mammals, herptiles, junto a los autoridades ambientales locales con insects and plants), and, incorporating geographi cuiras a lo protección del marcizo. cal and anthropological information, to produce a conservation assessment of the region (full results M e th o d s in Salaman et al.4). A sizeable part of eastern During 14 July–17 August 1998 and 3–22 July 1999, Cauca — the Bota Caucana — including the 80-km- ornithological surveys were undertaken in Serranía long Serranía de los Churumbelos had never been de los Churumbelos, Department of Cauca, by two subject to faunal surveys. -
Peru: from the Cusco Andes to the Manu
The critically endangered Royal Cinclodes - our bird-of-the-trip (all photos taken on this tour by Pete Morris) PERU: FROM THE CUSCO ANDES TO THE MANU 26 JULY – 12 AUGUST 2017 LEADERS: PETE MORRIS and GUNNAR ENGBLOM This brand new itinerary really was a tour of two halves! For the frst half of the tour we really were up on the roof of the world, exploring the Andes that surround Cusco up to altitudes in excess of 4000m. Cold clear air and fantastic snow-clad peaks were the order of the day here as we went about our task of seeking out a number of scarce, localized and seldom-seen endemics. For the second half of the tour we plunged down off of the mountains and took the long snaking Manu Road, right down to the Amazon basin. Here we traded the mountainous peaks for vistas of forest that stretched as far as the eye could see in one of the planet’s most diverse regions. Here, the temperatures rose in line with our ever growing list of sightings! In all, we amassed a grand total of 537 species of birds, including 36 which provided audio encounters only! As we all know though, it’s not necessarily the shear number of species that counts, but more the quality, and we found many high quality species. New species for the Birdquest life list included Apurimac Spinetail, Vilcabamba Thistletail, Am- pay (still to be described) and Vilcabamba Tapaculos and Apurimac Brushfnch, whilst other montane goodies included the stunning Bearded Mountaineer, White-tufted Sunbeam the critically endangered Royal Cinclodes, 1 BirdQuest Tour Report: Peru: From the Cusco Andes to The Manu 2017 www.birdquest-tours.com These wonderful Blue-headed Macaws were a brilliant highlight near to Atalaya. -
Birds of the Río Negro Jaguar Preserve, Colonia Libertad, Costa Rica
C O T IN G A 8 Birds of the Río Negro Jaguar Preserve, Colonia Libertad, Costa Rica Daniel S. Cooper Cuando esté completa, Rio Negro Jaguar Preserve protegerá c. 10 000 acres de llanura y pedemonte de la vertiente caribeña junto al Parque Nacional Rincón de la Vieja en el noroeste de Costa Rica. Si bien el área posee pocos asentamientos y es aún remota, el reciente (desde comienzos de los ’80) y acelerado ritmo de tala y deforestación en la región ha hecho que estas selvas sean unas de las más amenazadas en el país. El hábitat en las cercanías de la reserva representa uno de los últimos grandes bloques de selva contigua de las llanuras hasta los niveles medios de elevación en Costa Rica, y, conectada a la selva de altura protegida en un parque nacional, funciona como un corredor forestal de dispersión, crucial para los movimientos altitudinales estacionales de las 300 especies de aves y varias docenas de mamíferos del área. Esta región poco habitada: no más de 2000 personas viven en sus alrededores, la mayoría de los cuales llegaron en los últimos 20 años, esta explotada a pequeña escala y así provee de un área núcleo de reserva para varias especies raras que han sido prácticamente eliminadas en sectores a menor altitud, como por ejemplo Electron carinatum y los globalmente casi-amenazados Spizastur melanoleucus, Chamaepetes unicolor, Odontophorus leucolaemus, Procnias tricarunculata, Piprites griseiceps y Buthraupis arcaei, todos los cuales han sido detectados cerca o arriba los 700 m. Se presenta una lista completa de especies, preparada como resultado de investigaciones entre el 12 marzo y 7 abril 1996 por el autor en el área alrededor de Colonia Libertad, dos visitas por T. -
PERU: Manu and Machu Picchu Aug-Sept
Tropical Birding Trip Report PERU: Manu and Machu Picchu Aug-Sept. 2015 A Tropical Birding SET DEPARTURE tour PERU: MANU and MACHU PICCHU th th 29 August – 16 September 2015 Tour Leader: Jose Illanes Andean Cock-of-the-rock near Cock-of-the-rock Lodge! Species highlighted in RED are the ones illustrated with photos in this report. INTRODUCTION Not everyone is fortunate enough to visit Peru; a marvelous country that boasts a huge country bird list, which is second only to Colombia. Unlike our usual set departure, we started out with a daylong extension to Lomas de Lachay first, before starting out on the usual itinerary for the main tour. On this extra day we managed to 1 www.tropicalbirding.com +1-409-515-0514 [email protected] Page Tropical Birding Trip Report PERU: Manu and Machu Picchu Aug-Sept. 2015 find many extra birds like Peruvian Thick-knee, Least Seedsnipe, Peruvian Sheartail, Raimondi’s Yellow- Finch and the localized Cactus Canastero. The first site of the main tour was Huacarpay Lake, near the beautiful Andean city of Cusco (accessed after a short flight from Lima). This gave us a few endemic species like Bearded Mountaineer and Rusty-fronted Canastero; along with other less local species like Many-colored Rush-tyrant, Plumbeous Rail, Puna Teal, Andean Negrito and Puna Ibis. The following day we birded along the road towards Manu where we picked up birds like Peruvian Sierra-Finch, Chestnut-breasted Mountain-Finch, Spot-winged Pigeon, and a beautiful Peruvian endemic in the form of Creamy-crested Spinetail. We also saw Yungas Pygmy-Owl, Black-faced Ibis, Hooded and Scarlet-bellied Mountain- Tanagers, Red-crested Cotinga and the gorgeous Grass-green Tanager. -
Quebrada Gonzalez, Braulio Carrillo National Park
DAY TRIP TO FANTASTIC CARIBBEAN SLOPE FOOTHILL FOREST AT QUEBRADA GONZALEZ, BRAULIO CARRILLO NATIONAL PARK Only an hour's drive from the city, the fantastic, Caribbean slope, foothill rain forests of Quebrada Gonzalez are the closest, most accessible rain forests to San Jose. This is also a good day trip to take while staying in the Sarapiqui (La Selva) area as it takes a bit less than an hour to get there and hosts a number of bird species not found in the lowlands. The dense vegetation and tall canopy of the rain forests at Quebrada Gonzalez can be tough to bird but always produce rare species difficult to see elsewhere. Some of the specialties that I frequently see at this site, (a spot I have been birding since 1993) include: King Vulture, Hawk-Eagles, other raptors, Crested Guan, Snowcap, Lattice-tailed Trogon (pictured above), Yellow-eared Toucanet (pictured above), Cinnamon Woodpecker, Black- crowned Antpitta, Russet Antshrike, White-ruffed Manakin, Nightingale Wren, Black-headed Nightingale Thrush, Pale-vented Thrush, and many tanager species that troop through the forest in large, mixed flocks. Other animals: In general, this site is an excellent place to experience primary rainforest. Three species of monkeys, Northern Tamandua, and various frogs and reptiles are frequently encountered. Itinerary: Arriving at Quebrada Gonzalez by 6:30 A.M., we will search for the specialties of this foothill forest along a well-maintained, short, loop trail. Around mid-morning, we will watch the sky for raptors and the forest edge for mixed flocks in the vicinity of the ranger station before driving to a nearby restaurant for a tasty, Tico lunch. -
Tropical Birding Tour Report
Costa Rica: The Introtour February 12 – 22, 2010 Tour Leader: Scott Olmstead Report and photos by Scott Olmstead. Resplendent Quetzal at Savegre This tour is designed as a Costa Rica sampler, with short stays at four famous birding sites: La Selva, Monteverde, Savegre, and Carara. With nine days in the field we manage to hit several of the country’s bioregions and take full advantage of Costa Rica’s incredible bird diversity. On this trip we visit the rich lowland rainforest on both the Caribbean and Pacific sides of the Continental Divide, the mist-enshrouded cloud forest of Monteverde, the majestic oak forests of the Talamanca Cordillera, the Pacific mangroves, and more. The wish-list of birds is surely topped by the breathtaking Resplendant Quetzal , with spectacular species like Keel-billed Toucan , Violet Sabrewing , Turquoise-browed Motmot , and Great Green Macaw making up the supporting cast. Timed for the dry season, we typically do not worry much about rain (although anything can happen at La Selva). At the end of the trip you will be ready to plan your next trip back to explore more of this friendly Central American country! Tropical Birding www.tropicalbirding.com 1 Feb. 12 – For those that arrived in time, there was birding to be done on the grounds of the hotel, with Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl being one of the star birds. After dark we gathered for a scrumptious welcome dinner and then drifted off to sleep, dreaming of new places and birds. Feb. 13 – We gathered just after dawn for a pre-breakfast stroll around the garens at the Hotel Bougainvillea. -
Northern Peru Marañon Endemics & Marvelous Spatuletail 4Th to 25Th September 2016
Northern Peru Marañon Endemics & Marvelous Spatuletail 4th to 25th September 2016 Marañón Crescentchest by Dubi Shapiro This tour just gets better and better. This year the 7 participants, Rob and Baldomero enjoyed a bird filled trip that found 723 species of birds. We had particular success with some tricky groups, finding 12 Rails and Crakes (all but 1 being seen!), 11 Antpittas (8 seen), 90 Tanagers and allies, 71 Hummingbirds, 95 Flycatchers. We also found many of the iconic endemic species of Northern Peru, such as White-winged Guan, Peruvian Plantcutter, Marañón Crescentchest, Marvellous Spatuletail, Pale-billed Antpitta, Long-whiskered Owlet, Royal Sunangel, Koepcke’s Hermit, Ash-throated RBL Northern Peru Trip Report 2016 2 Antwren, Koepcke’s Screech Owl, Yellow-faced Parrotlet, Grey-bellied Comet and 3 species of Inca Finch. We also found more widely distributed, but always special, species like Andean Condor, King Vulture, Agami Heron and Long-tailed Potoo on what was a very successful tour. Top 10 Birds 1. Marañón Crescentchest 2. Spotted Rail 3. Stygian Owl 4. Ash-throated Antwren 5. Stripe-headed Antpitta 6. Ochre-fronted Antpitta 7. Grey-bellied Comet 8. Long-tailed Potoo 9. Jelski’s Chat-Tyrant 10. = Chestnut-backed Thornbird, Yellow-breasted Brush Finch You know it has been a good tour when neither Marvellous Spatuletail nor Long-whiskered Owlet make the top 10 of birds seen! Day 1: 4 September: Pacific coast and Chaparri Upon meeting, we headed straight towards the coast and birded the fields near Monsefue, quickly finding Coastal Miner. Our main quarry proved trickier and we had to scan a lot of fields before eventually finding a distant flock of Tawny-throated Dotterel; we walked closer, getting nice looks at a flock of 24 of the near-endemic pallidus subspecies of this cracking shorebird. -
Ornithological Surveys in Serranía De Los Churumbelos, Southern Colombia
Ornithological surveys in Serranía de los Churumbelos, southern Colombia Paul G. W. Salaman, Thomas M. Donegan and Andrés M. Cuervo Cotinga 12 (1999): 29–39 In July–August 1998 and July 1999, bird surveys were conducted in the Serranía de los Churumbelos in the East Andes of Colombia, Department of Cauca, during two Anglo-Colombian multi-taxa biological and conservation expeditions. Seven sites were studied from 350–2,500 m elevation, with 421 species recorded. We present a summary of rare species for each site including the most significant new distributional records. The results firmly establish the conservation priority of the Serranía de los Churumbelos, and we are now working closely with the local environmental authorities towards protective measures for the massif. Methods During 14 July–17 August 1998 and 3–22 July 1999, ornithological surveys were undertaken in Serranía de los Churumbelos, Department of Cauca, by two Anglo–Colombian conservation expeditions—‘Colombia ‘98’ and the ‘Colombian EBA Project’. Seven study sites were investigated using non-systematic observations and standardised mist-netting techniques by the three authors, with Dan Davison and Liliana Dávalos in 1998. Each study site was situated along an altitudinal transect at c.300 m-elevational steps, from 350–2,500 m on the Amazonian slope of the Serranía. Our principal aim was to allow comparisons to be made between sites and with other biological groups (mammals, herptiles, insects and plants), and, incorporating geographical and anthropological information, to produce a conservation assessment of the region (full results in Salaman et al.4). A sizeable part of eastern Cauca—the Bota Caucana—including the 80 km-long Serranía de los Churumbelos had never been subject to faunal surveys. -
AOU Check-List Supplement
AOU Check-list Supplement The Auk 117(3):847–858, 2000 FORTY-SECOND SUPPLEMENT TO THE AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS’ UNION CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS This first Supplement since publication of the 7th Icterus prosthemelas, Lonchura cantans, and L. atricap- edition (1998) of the AOU Check-list of North American illa); (3) four species are changed (Caracara cheriway, Birds summarizes changes made by the Committee Glaucidium costaricanum, Myrmotherula pacifica, Pica on Classification and Nomenclature between its re- hudsonia) and one added (Caracara lutosa) by splits constitution in late 1998 and 31 January 2000. Be- from now-extralimital forms; (4) four scientific cause the makeup of the Committee has changed sig- names of species are changed because of generic re- nificantly since publication of the 7th edition, it allocation (Ibycter americanus, Stercorarius skua, S. seems appropriate to outline the way in which the maccormicki, Molothrus oryzivorus); (5) one specific current Committee operates. The philosophy of the name is changed for nomenclatural reasons (Baeolo- Committee is to retain the present taxonomic or dis- phus ridgwayi); (6) the spelling of five species names tributional status unless substantial and convincing is changed to make them gramatically correct rela- evidence is published that a change should be made. tive to the generic name (Jacamerops aureus, Poecile The Committee maintains an extensive agenda of atricapilla, P. hudsonica, P. cincta, Buarremon brunnein- potential action items, including possible taxonomic ucha); (7) one English name is changed to conform to changes and changes to the list of species included worldwide use (Long-tailed Duck), one is changed in the main text or the Appendix. -
Rare Birds in Ecuador: first Annual Report of the Committee of Ecuadorian Records in Ornithology (CERO)
AVANCES EN CIENCIAS E INGENIERÍAS ARTÍCULO/ARTICLE SECCIÓN/SECTION B Rare birds in Ecuador: first annual report of the Committee of Ecuadorian Records in Ornithology (CERO) Juan F. Freile1,2,∗, Roger Ahlman1,3, Dušan M. Brinkuizen1,4, Paul J. Greenfield1,5, Alejandro Solano-Ugalde1,6, Lelis Navarrete1,7 y Robert S. Ridgely1,8 1Comité Ecuatoriano de Registros Ornitológicos. E-mail: [email protected] 2Fundación Numashir, Casilla Postal 17-12-122, Tumbaco, Ecuador. 3Juan de Illánez, edif. Double Diamond, Quito, Ecuador. 4Casilla Postal 17-07-9345, Quito, Ecuador. 5Mindo Cloud Forest Foundation, Urb. El Bosque, 2da Etapa, Sexta #161, Edif. El Parque, Quito, Ecuador. 6Fundación Imaymana, Paltapamba 476, San Pedro del Valle, Nayón, Ecuador. 7Neblina Forest, Casilla Postal 17-17-12-12, Puembo, Ecuador. 8Rainforest Trust, 25 Horner Street, Warrenton, VA 20186, USA. ∗Autor principal/Corresponding author, e-mail: [email protected] Editado por/Edited by: Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia, Ph.D.(c) Recibido/Received: 28/09/2013. Aceptado/Accepted: 12/10/2013. Publicado en línea/Published on Web: 09/12/2013. Impreso/Printed: 09/12/2013. Abstract We summarise records of bird species submitted to the Committee of Ecuadorian Records in Ornithology (CERO) by the Ecuado- rian and international ornithological community. CERO compiles the official country checklist and updates it annually. We present nine new country records (Anas acuta, Aythya collaris, Egretta rufescens, Coccycua pumila, Sublegatus modestus, Myiarchus panamensis, Vireo philadelphicus, Atlapetes -
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Field Guides Tour Report Peru's Magnetic North: Spatuletails, Owlet Lodge & More 2019 Jun 15, 2019 to Jun 27, 2019 Dan Lane & Dave Stejskal For our tour description, itinerary, past triplists, dates, fees, and more, please VISIT OUR TOUR PAGE. The Marvelous Spatuletail certainly lived up to its name for us! We were able get our fill of the males with their amazing tail feathers as they came to the feeders set up at Huembo. Photo by guide Dave Stejskal. I'd been hearing about 'Abra Patricia' in n. Peru ever since I was in high school in Phoenix back in the '70's, and I can't believe that it's taken me 40-some years to get there! Despite the long wait, I think that the timing was pretty darned good, given how successful this short tour to this exciting region of Peru turned out to be for our group! Weather on this tour really couldn't have been any better for us, with a minimal amount of rain that didn't really hamper us. The one 'curve ball' that we were thrown was the highway strike that forced our hand to tweak our itinerary for this year's tour. We ended up cutting a couple of nights from Owlet Lodge, staying a couple of extra nights back at Waqanki - and it all worked out great! This itinerary had us visiting a wide variety of habitats, all of which held their unique avian prizes for us. After a great stop along the road to Moyobamba that brought us all unforgettable looks at numbers of strange Oilbirds roosting on dark stone ledges below our perch on the highway, we got our first taste of the hummingbird bounty that was to unfold on this tour.