Birds of Colombia

Guajira Peninsula and the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta with Naturetrek

Some 250 birds photographed here in 8 days.

This is the Colombia Santa Marta Endemics Tour

29 January to 6 February 2026 

All photographs copyright Paul Gale Bird Photography

Amazonia Greyish Saltator	American White Ibis
Ammerican Flamingo	American Oystercatcher
American Redstart	Baltimore Oriole
Band-rumped Swift	Band-tailed Guan
Bare-eyed Pigeon	Bare-faced Ibis
Bay-headed Tanager	Bicoloured Wren
Black Vulture	Black-and-white Hawk-Eagle
Black-and-white Warbler	Black-backed Antshrike
Black-bellied Plover	Black-chested Jay
Blackburnian Warbler	Black-capped Tanager
Black-collared Hawk	Black-faced Grassquit
Black-headed Tanager	Black-hooded ThrusBh
Black-necked Stilt	Black-throated Mango
Blue-black Grosbeak	Blue-crowned Parakeet
Blue-grey Tanager	Blue-headed Parrot
Blue-naped Chlorophonia	Blue-winged Parrotlet
Blue-winged Teal	Boat-billed Flycatcher
Broad-winged Hawk	Brown Pelican
Brown Violetear	Brown-crested Flycatcher
Brown-rumped Tapaculo	Brown-throated Parakeet
Buff-throated Saltator	Buffy Hummingbird
Carib Grackle	Caribbean Hornero
Caribbean Greyish Saltator	Carriker's Mountain Tanager
Caspian Tern	Cattle Tyrant
Chestnut-collared Swift	Chestnut Picolet
Chestnut-capped Warbler	Chestnut-sided Warbler
Chestnut-winged Chachalaca	Cinereous Becard
Cinnamon Becard	Clay-coloured Thrush
Coccoi Heron	Collared Acacari
Colombian golden-green Woodpecker	Common Ground-Dove
Common Tody-Flycatcher	Coppery Emerald??
Crested Caracara	Crested Oropendola
Crimson-backed Tanager	Crimson-crested Woodpecker
Violet-crowned Woodnymph	Double-striped Thick-knee
Dull-coloured Grassquit	Dwarf Cuckoo
Eared Dove	Forest Elaenia
Ferruginous Pygmy Owl	Rusty Flowerpiercer
White-sided Flowerpiercer	Giant Cowbird
Glaucous Tanager	Golden Grosbeak
Goldon-olive Woodpecker	Golden-winged Sparrow
Great Blue Heron	Great Kiskadee
Great Thrush	Great White Egret
Great-crested Flycatcher	Greater Yellowlegs
Great-tailed Grackle	Green Kingfisher
Green-backed Heron	Green-rumped Parrotlet
Grey Kingbird	Grey-piliated Finch
Grey Seedeater	Grey-lined Hawk
Grey-throated Leaf-tosser	Groove-billed Toucanet
Hermit Wood-wren	Hook-billed Kite
Hudsonian Whimbrel	Keel-billed Toucan
King Vulture	Lance-tailed Manakin
Large-billed Tern	Laughing Gull
Lazuline Sabrewing	Least Sandpiper
Lesser Pied Puffbird	Lesser Violetear
Lesser yellow-headed Vulture	Lesser Yellowlegs
Limpkin	Lined Quail-Dove
Little Blue Heron	Magnificent Frigatebird
Mangrove Rail	Masked Titrya
Masked Trogon	Military Macaw
Montane Foliage-Gleaner	Montane Woodcreeper
Moustached Puffbird	Neotropic Cormorant
Northern Plain Xenops	Northern Screamer
Northern Scrub Flycatcher	Northern Waterthrush
Northern White-fringed Antwren	Ochre-bellied Flycatcher
Ochre-lored Flatbill	Olive-sided Flycatcher
Olive-striped Flycatcher	One-coloured Becard
Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush	Orange-chinned Parakeet
Orange-crowned Oriole	Tropical Mockingbird
Orinocan Saltator	Osprey
Pale-bellied Hermit	Pale-breasted Thrush
Pale-eyed Pygmy-Tyrant	Pale-vented Pigeon
Palm Tanager	Panama Flycatcher
Pearl Kite	Pearly-vented Tody-tyrant
Pied Water-Tyrant	Plumbeous Kite
Prothonatory Warbler	Purple Gallinule
Red-billed Emerald	Red-billed Parrot
Scaly-naped Amazon	Red-crowned Woodpecker
Reddish Egret	Red-rumped Woodpecker
Ringed Kingfisher	Roadside Hawk
Roseate Spoonbill	Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Rosy Thrush-Tanager	Royal Tern
Rudy Ground-Dove	Rufous-breasted Hermit
Rufous-browed Peppershrike	Rufous-tailed Hummingbird
Rufous-tailed Jacamar	Rufous-vented Chachalaca
Russet-throated Puffbird	Rusty-headed Spinetail
Rusty-margined Flycatcher	Santa Marta Antpitta
Santa Marta Blossomcrown	Santa Marta Brushfinch
Santa Marta Mountain Tanager	Santa Marta Tyrian Metaltail
Santa Marta Tyrannulet	Santa Marta Warbler
Sapphire-bellied Hummingbird	Sapphire-throated Hummingbird
Scaled Dove	Scaled Picolet
Scaled Pigeon	Scarlet Ibis
Scarlet-fronted Parakeet	Scrub Greenlet
Sepia-capped Flycatcher	Sickle-winged Guan
Sierra-Nevada Brushfinch	Sierra-Nevada Antpitta
Slate-throated Whitestart	Smooth-billed Ani
Snail Kite	Snowy Egret
Social Flycatcher	Solitary Sandpiper
Sooty-headed Tyrannulet	Southern Beardless Tyrannulet
Southern House Wren	Southern Lapwing
Southern Rough-winged Swallow	Spectacled Tyrannulet
Spotted Sandpiper	Squirrel Cuckoo
Steely-vented Hummingbird	Straight-billed Woodcreeper
Streak-capped Spinetail	Streaked Flycatcher
Streak-fronted Antshrike	Streak-headed Woodcreeper
Stripe-backed Wren	Summer Tanager
Swallow Tanager	Swallow-tailed Kite
Tennessee Warbler	Thick-billed Euphonia
Tocuyo Sparrow	Tricoloured Heron
Trinidad Euphonia	Tropical Kingbird
Turkey Vulture	Vermilion Flycatcher
Vermilion Cardinal	Wattled Jacana
White-bellied Antbird	White-chinned Sapphire
White-collared Swift	White-headed Marsh-tyrant
White-lined Tanager	White-lored Warbler
White-necked Jacobin	White-throated Tyrannulet
White-tipped Dove	White-tipped Quetzal
White-vented Plumeleteer	White-whiskered Spinetail
White-winged Becard	Whooping Motmot
Willet	Wood Stork
Yellow Oriole	Yellow Warbler
Yellow-backed Oriole	Yellow-chinned Spinetail
Yellow-crowned Night Heron	Yellow-crowned Whitestart
Yellow-headed Caracara	Yellow-legged Thrush
Zone-tailed Hawk	Rufous-breasted Wren
Tyrant Day 2	Unidentified Day 3
Tarantula	Tyrannulet Day 2
Spider	Tyrannulet Day 7
Red-tailed Squirrel	Santa Marta White-fronted Capuchin
Owl Butterfly	Snake spotted in the understory on Day 7
Iguana	Mountain House View
Hummingbird Day 1	Hummingbird Day 8
Flycatcher spp	Helicopter Dragonfly
Forest Day 7	Fruting Tree San Lorenzo Ridge
Butterflies	Crab-eating Fox

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