CLARITO BOTERA & LIST, GENOVA
COLOMBIA
Region (Compass)
Lat:00o00´S/00o00´W ha topography msl
Protected/registered status
Best Time for visit (18th April, 2005)
Birding Site Guide
This is a site very near the city of Ibague. From the centre you can take the number 50 bus (or a taxi) which will drop you at the end of the paved road. From here you walk up a gravel road past a few houses with gardens and scattered trees where you can see some common bird species. Highlights in this lower section were White-vented Plumeleteer, Slaty Spinetail and Black-bellied Wren (only heard). An overhead electric wire runs along the road. After this finishes (about an hour walking slowly), there is a nice shady area of forest where the road curves round past a little stream. Here we had Crested Ant-Tanager. After this, there is a final house on a bend where there are lots of flowers. The owners of this house put out bananas for tanagers. Just after this, you pass a curve with a bit of forest left above. Here I saw Tolima Dove flying past. There is little forest left here and deforestation is taking place at quite a rate. I also had this species further along in shady forest. About 20 minutes after this on the left hand side in some scrub I saw the endangered endemic Yellow-headed Brush-Finch. Another good spot is near the top where there is a very small football pitch next to a stream. Here we saw Slaty-backed Chat-Tyrant and also found a dead juvenile antpitta (possibly rufous). Along the road, the endemic Blossomcrown has occasionally been seen. The president of ProAves, Alonso lives in Ibague and is a good source of information. I saw 74 species including 6 lifers.
Species seen
- Bare-faced Ibis Phimosus infuscatus
- Black Vulture Coragyps atratus
- Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
- Roadside Hawk Buteo magnirostris
- Gray-necked Wood-Rail Aramides cajanea Heard in Ibague
- Eared Dove Zenaida auriculata
- Ruddy Ground-Dove Columbina talpacoti
- Tolima Dove Leptotila conoveri Endemic Endangered
- Orange-chinned Parakeet Brotogeris jugularis
- Squirrel Cuckoo Piaya cayana Heard only
- Smooth-billed Ani Crotophaga ani
- Green Violet-ear Colibri thalassinus
- Violet-crowned Woodnymph Thalurania colombica
- White-vented Plumeleteer Chalybura buffonii
- Bronzy Inca Coeligena coeligena
- Crimson-rumped Toucanet Aulacorhynchus haematopygus Possibly seen
- Spot-breasted Woodpecker Colaptes punctigula
- Azara's Spinetail Synallaxis azarae
- Slaty Spinetail Synallaxis brachyura
- Spotted Barbtail Premnoplex brunnescens
- Montane Foliage-gleaner Anabacerthia striaticollis
- Straight-billed Woodcreeper Dendroplex picus
- Streak-headed Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes souleyetii
- Barred Antshrike Thamnophilus doliatus
- Bar-crested Antshrike Thamnophilus multistriatus
- Checker-throated Antwren Myrmotherula fulviventris
- Chestnut-crowned Antpitta Grallaria ruficapilla Heard only
- Greenish Elaenia Myiopagis viridicata
- Yellow-bellied Elaenia Elaenia flavogaster
- Slaty-capped Flycatcher Leptopogon superciliaris
- Golden-faced Tyrannulet Zimmerius chrysops
- Scale-crested Pygmy-Tyrant Lophotriccus pileatus
- Black Phoebe Sayornis nigricans
- Slaty-backed Chat-Tyrant Ochthoeca cinnamomeiventris
- Pale-edged Flycatcher Myiarchus cephalotes
- Rusty-margined Flycatcher Myiozetetes cayanensis
- Social Flycatcher Myiozetetes similis Possibly seen
- Piratic Flycatcher Legatus leucophaius
- Tropical Kingbird Tyrannus melancholicus
- Barred Becard Pachyramphus versicolor
- Blue-and-white Swallow Notiochelidon cyanoleuca
- Southern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx ruficollis
- Black-bellied Wren Thryothorus fasciatoventris Heard only
- Whiskered Wren Thryothorus mystacalis
- House Wren Troglodytes aedon Heard only
- Gray-breasted Wood-Wren Henicorhina leucophrys
- Black-billed Thrush Turdus ignobilis
- Green Jay Cyanocorax yncas
- Slate-throated Redstart Myioborus miniatus
- Rufous-capped Warbler Basileuterus rufifrons
- Bananaquit Coereba flaveola
- Common Bush-Tanager Chlorospingus ophthalmicus
- Guira Tanager Hemithraupis guira
- Crested Ant-Tanager Habia cristata Endemic
- Blue-gray Tanager Thraupis episcopus
- Blue-capped Tanager Thraupis cyanocephala
- Palm Tanager Thraupis palmarum
- Thick-billed Euphonia Euphonia laniirostris
- Orange-bellied Euphonia Euphonia xanthogaster
- Golden Tanager Tangara arthus
- Bay-headed Tanager Tangara gyrola
- Scrub Tanager Tangara vitriolina
- Metallic-green Tanager Tangara labradorides Possibly seen
- Blue-necked Tanager Tangara cyanicollis
- Black-faced Dacnis Dacnis lineata
- Rusty Flowerpiercer Diglossa sittoides
- White-sided Flowerpiercer Diglossa albilatera
- Saffron Finch Sicalis flaveola
- Yellow-breasted Brush-Finch Atlapetes latinuchus
- Orange-billed Sparrow Arremon aurantiirostris
- Streaked Saltator Saltator striatipectus
- Buff-throated Saltator Saltator maximus
- Black-winged Saltator Saltator atripennis
- Lesser Goldfinch Carduelis psaltria
Other Fauna
A total of -- species of mammals.
There are -- recorded species of amphibians and reptiles.
Flora
Author: Charles Hesse
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