Author: David Ascanio

Our Colombia tour started in Chingaza national park (named derived from the Muiscas indians), a location that offered an Andean birding opportunity in the dwarf forest and the paramo, the latter being a habitat found above tree line. At such […]

The beautiful gardens of the Hotel Bougainvillea welcomed us with a wonderful rainbow and a Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl singing from the top of a small tree and hummingbirds, tyrant-flycatchers and wood-warblers mobbing it. We enjoyed views of a pair of Rufous-naped […]

One reason to spend a couple of nights in the northern Rupununi was to spend a full day searching for a bird that was almost wiped-out due to the illegal bird trade, the Sun Parakeet. But, the main reason to […]

Charming Guyana welcomed us at the Botanical Gardens with wonderful views of Blood-colored Woodpecker, Toco Toucans, a Cinnamon Attila singing at eye level, a pair of dull but interesting Northern Scrub-Flycatchers and Black-collared Hawks calling from a distant tree. The […]

When I started editing the photos of this amazing tour, I was in my flight back home. And, as I was enjoying the scenery from the plane window, I was wondering how to start an introductory paragraph highlighting the best […]

A colorful Andean Motmot catching land worms in the flooded gardens of the MG Hotel welcomed us to a week that would macth, in a magic way, the best birds of the Magdalena river valley and the Western Andes of […]

I find it difficult to summarize in words the mix of landscapes, skies painted in all kind of rich blue tones, inimaginable waterfalls reaching the sea, immensely huge glaciers, cliffs with thousand (or even tens of thousand) seabirds nesting, pale […]

It’s about 02:00AM in San José and we are listening the widespread and ubiquitous Clay-colored Robin singing from our hotel window. Yet, it was still too early to experience the real explosion of bird songs which usually happens after dawn. […]

The tour started in Rancho La Belén, an active cattle ranch where a population of the little-known Giant Kingbird remains. Along the drive to the ranch we were already stopping to enjoy views of Cuban Palm Crow, Cuban Crow and […]

An extract from our Field List: The first full day received us in Tahuayo, a tributary of the Amazon river. As soon as we were on the skiffs, the three groups were enjoying a wealth of birds, from antbirds to […]