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Colombia - Multicoloured Tanager Tour

Tour Code: COL02

An 11-day tour exploring the exceptional birdlife of Colombia's central and western Andes and Cauca Valley.

£4,695

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338.5kg CO2e

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Highlights

  • Red-ruffed Fruitcrow & Cauca Guan at Otún Quimbaya
  • Antpitta feedings stations at Rio Blanco – photograph Slate-crowned amongst others
  • Crescent-faced Antipitta and Grey-breasted Mountain Toucan at Hacienda el Bosque
  • Stunning endemic Buffy Helmetcrest on high slopes of Nevado del Ruiz
  • Wonderful Montezuma cloudforest & mind-blowing birding
  • Gold-ringed & Black and Gold Tanager amongst many target endemics
  • Cauca Valley specials in Cali, including Greyish Piculet & Bar-crested Antshrike
  • Excellent food & hospitality at Araucana on the Buenaventura Rd, plus Multicoloured Tanager nearby!
  • Direct flights from Heathrow to Bogota with Avianca

Summary

This 12-day birding tour, which can be easily combined with our Santa Marta Endemics tour, begins with an exploration of Otún Quimbaya, noted for Torrent Duck, Cauca Guan and Red-ruffed Fruitcrow. Manizales is our next base, from where we enjoy the energetic flocks and antpitta feeding stations of the Rio Blanco Reserve. Nearby is the up and coming Hacienda el Bosque, home to Crescent-faced Antipitta and Grey-breasted Mountain Toucan, amongst many others. Also from Manizales we ascend the slopes of the 5,429-metre-high Nevado del Ruiz for the stunning endemic Buffy Helmetcrest and the splendid hummingbirds of the volcano's thermal springs. We next travel west to Montezuma to some of the most beautiful cloudforest in Colombia. A suite of endemics is present here, including Munchique Wood-wren, Chestnut-bellied Flowerpiercer, Gold-ringed Tanager and Black-and-gold Tanager. Other tanagers keep us royally entertained during a 3-night stay, including jaw-droppers such as Purplish-mantled, Glistening-green, and Grass-green. The tour ends with some birding around Cali for Cauca Valley specialities, before driving up to the fabled ‘KM18’ for Multicoloured Tanager plus a host of colourful Tangara tanagers. 

Colombia, with almost 1,900 recorded species at the last count, including around 80 endemics, is the undisputed number one country on the planet for bird diversity. Unfortunately, for most of the 90’s and ‘noughties’, civil unrest had made visiting remote areas within the country distinctly unadvisable. Whilst ecotourism flourished in neighbouring Panama, Ecuador, Venezuela, Brazil and Peru, Colombia remained in the doldrums, waiting patiently for the chance to reveal its wonderful landscapes, birds and people to the world once more. Happily, Colombia has changed dramatically in the past few years and birders worldwide are now flocking to this beautiful country in search of its many avian jewels. Colombia’s topography is both diverse and breath-taking, with snow-capped mountains, cloud-filled valleys, savannas and rainforests augmented with a magnificent birdlife ranging from tiny hummingbirds to toucans, fruitcrows and an incredible array of colorful tanagers. This tour concentrates on endemics as well as the trademark hummingbirds, antpittas and tanagers which are always a feature of birding tours in the subtropical Andes.

Outline Itinerary

Day
1
Fly London to Pereira, via Bogota
Day
2
Otún Quimbaya
Days
3 - 4
Manizales - Rio Blanco
Day
5
Hacienda el Bosque/Nevado del Ruiz
Days
6 - 8
Montezuma
Days
9 - 10
Araucana Lodge (KM18 & San Lorenzo)
Day
11
Cali to Bogota; in flight
Day
12
Arrive London
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Food

All meals are included.

Accommodation

A mixture of birding lodges and small hotels.

Reviews

D.W., Kent, Feb 25, Apr 2025

This was a fantastic bird watching tour which gave you a real insight into the vast and beautiful country including the scenery, people, culture, the wildlife and the amazing birds. Our tour took us to several different places and accommodation all slightly different and always offering a new experience. Our guide Juan was local and was extremely knowledgeable of the wonderful bird life. It was a small group who got on really well and Juan made us all feel special and we could not fault how well he looked after each one of us. It was an experience we will not forget and we hope to visit new parts of Colombia again in the future.

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P.H., Hertfordshire, Jan 25, Mar 2025

A fantastic tour of this interesting country visiting a wide range of habitats and seeing some wonderful birds thanks to the skill and expertise of the knowledgeable guides. Naturetrek always deliver a great wildlife trip.

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2026

Flight Inclusive

£4,695

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£3,895

Single Supplement

£475

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2027

Flight Inclusive

£4,695

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£3,895

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£495

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Male sharing available

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£4,695

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£3,895

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£495

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Flight Inclusive

£4,695

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£3,895

Single Supplement

£495

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Flight Inclusive

£4,795

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£3,995

Single Supplement

£475

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Flight Inclusive

£4,795

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£3,995

Single Supplement

£475

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2028

Flight Inclusive

£4,795

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£3,995

Single Supplement

£475

Regional Departures

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£4,795

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£3,995

Single Supplement

£475

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Multicoloured Tanager (Neil Hilton).jpg
Crimson-rumped Toucanet (Christine Miller)
Bicoloured Antpitta (Christine Miller)
Gold-ringed Tanager
Buffy Helmetcrest (Christian Cederroth) - Copy
Multicoloured Tanager HR
Golden Tanager
Blue-winged Mountain Tanager by Christine Miller
Buffy Helmetcrest
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Landscape in Nevado del Ruiz, Colombia
Purplish-mantled Tanager
Red-ruffed Fruitcrow Colombia
Brown-banded Antpitta (Christine Miller)
Golden Tanager (Christine Miller)
Red-Headed Barbet (Christine Miller)
Guira Tanager (Christine Miller)
Lemon-browed Flycatchers (Christine Miller)
Long-tailed Sylph by Christine Miller
Masked Flowerpiercer (Christine Miller)
Multi-colored Tanager (Christine Miller)
White-necked Jacobin by Christine Miller
White-tailed Hillstar (Christine Miller)
Blackburnian Warbler (Neil Hilton).jpg
Buffy Helmetcrest (Neil Hilton).jpg
Chestnut-bellied Flowerpiercer (Neil Hilton).jpg
Chestnut-breasted Chlorophonia (Neil Hilton).jpg
Common Potoo (Neil Hilton).jpg
Glistening-green Tanager (Neil Hilton).jpg
Gold-ringed Tanager (Neil Hilton).jpg
Grey-breasted Mountain Toucan (Neil Hilton).jpg
Lineated Woodpecker (Neil Hilton).jpg
Masked Saltator (Neil Hilton).jpg
Moustached Puffbird (Neil Hilton).jpg
Munchique Wood-wren (Neil Hilton).jpg
Northern Emerald Toucanet (Neil Hilton).jpg
Purplish-mantled Tanager (Neil Hilton).jpg
Red-ruffed Fruitcrow (Neil Hilton).jpg
Scarlet-bellied Mountain Tanager (Neil Hilton).jpg
Slate-crowned Antpitta (Neil Hilton).jpg
Tanager Finch (Neil Hilton).jpg
Toucan Barbet (Neil Hilton).jpg
Turquoise Dacnis (Neil Hilton).jpg
Violet-tailed Sylph (Neil Hilton).jpg
Wattled Guan (Neil Hilton).jpg
White-capped Dipper (Neil Hilton).jpg
Yellow-bellied Chat-Tyrant (Neil Hilton).jpg

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