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Birding at Cameguadua Marsh
Work the marsh and its margins for a wetland mix of herons, rails, gallinules, parrotlets and kingfishers, with a strong supporting cast of antshrikes, spinetails, flycatchers, seedeaters and saltators. The open water and reed edges give a distinct change of pace from the forest birding.
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Morning Birding at Kaukita Dry Forest Reserve
Bird the small tropical dry forest reserve on Pereira's western edge, a patch of dry forest ringed by a residential estate with open grassland and ponds. It is a good place for the first Colombian endemics and dry-country specialities, working the scrub, the grassland and the pond edges in the cooler hours of the morning.
Read MoreKm 18 Farm Feeders Birding
Visit five working farms along the Western Cordillera ridge near Cali, where banana and corn feeders bring Multicolored Tanager and Chestnut Wood-quail to eye level — a genuine paradise for bird photographers amid the cloud forest.
Read MoreOvernight at Hotel in Jardín (TBD)
Accommodation at about 1,950 m in the flower-bedecked mountain town, close to the Yellow-eared Parrot reserve and the following morning's cock-of-the-rock lek.
Read MoreOvernight at Hotel in Riosucio (TBD)
Accommodation at about 2,000 m in the Caldas town, a practical staging point between the Los Nevados highlands and the Jardín road birding.
Read MoreOvernight at Hotel in Manizales (TBD)
City accommodation at about 2,200 m in the coffee-region capital, a convenient base for Río Blanco, Hacienda El Bosque and the higher páramo days.
Read MoreOvernight at Hotel in La Florida (TBD)
A village base on the western slope of the Central Andes near Otún-Quimbaya, at about 1,800 m, with easy access to the sanctuary's trails and the road to Manizales.
Read MoreOvernight at Hotel in Km 18 area (TBD)
A comfortable base on the Western Cordillera ridge near Cali, within reach of the farm feeders, hummingbird and tanager gardens of the Km 18 birding grounds.
Read MoreRiosucio
A lively town in the Caldas coffee region of Colombia's Western Cordillera, gateway to the Yellow-eared Parrot reserves of the Riosucio–Jardín road.
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