Due to physical health issues I only spent three days birding in Columbia. I am an independant birder, I don't go on expensive birding tours but try to do it myself. No doubt I would have much longer lists from a tour with full time guides, but it's the independant element that makes it fun for me, plus I have a healthier bank balance as a result. Of the sixty or so birds that I remember positively identifying more than thirty were lifers, they are the ones in bold type below.
| Santa Marta Brushfinch Santa Marta Mountain Tanager White-tipped Quetzal Crowned Woodnymph Black Hooded Thrush White Tipped Dove Blackburnian Warbler Golden Crowned Flycatcher Sparkling Violetear White Sided Flowerpiercer Red Billed Parrot Tyrian Metaltail Olive Striped Fruit Tyrant Yellow Crowned Whitestart Black Capped Tyrannulet Strong Billed Woodcreeper Montane Woodcreeper Montane Fiolage Gleaner Santa Marta Emerald Toucanet Crimson Crested Woodpecker Golden Breasted Fruiteater Black Chested Jay Black Throated Tody Tyrant Pale Breasted Thrush Blue Naped Clorophonia Crimson Collared Tanager Broad Winged Hawk Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Rufous-tailed Foilage Gleaner | Buff Throated Saltator Common Tody Flycatcher Southern Rough Winged Swallow Black Backed Antshrike Boat Billed Flycatcher Bicoloured Wren Crested Oropendola Black Phoebe Yellow Oriole Streaked Flycatcher Rufous Capped Warbler Palm Tanager Summer Tanager Red Crowned Woodpecker Thick Billed Euphonia Orange Chinned Parakeet Grey Seedeater Rufous Tailed Hummingbird Steely Vented Hummingbird Yellow Backed oriole Lesser Goldfinch Blue Capped Tanager Vermillion Crowned Flycatcher Lesser Violetear Rufous Collared Sparrow Collared Aracari Keel Billed Toucan Band Tailed Guan Sickle Winged Guan |
