Wed.June 23. early am Kilometer 18 on Cali-Buonaventura Rd, then visited
private Hummingbird feeders and a nearby very good patch of forest
(Multicolored Tanager!) until about 1 pm, then back to Cali and long drive
to Popoyan.
Southern Lapwing 12
Ruddy Ground-Dove common
Squirrel Cuckoo 1
Smooth-billed Ani common
White-collared Swift 4
Chestnut-collared Swift 3
Green Hermit 1
White-necked Jacobin 20
Brown Violetear 5
Sparkling Violetear 1
Black-throated Mango 2
Green-crowned Woodnymph 1 (lifer)
Blue-headed Sapphire 2 (lifer)
Andean Emerald 6 (lifer)
Steely-vented Hummingbird 50+
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird 12
Fawn-breasted Brilliant 2 (lifer)
Long-tailed Sylph (race emmae) 1
Long-billed Starthroat 1
Purple-throated Woodstar 2 (lifer)
Crimson-rumped Toucanet (lifer)
Golden-Olive Woodpecker 1
Azara's Spinetail 2
Red-faced Spinetail H only
Rusty-winged Barbtail 1 (a 3-star bird)
Lineated Foliage Gleaner 2 (lifer)
Uniform Antshrike 4 (lifer)
Plain Antvireo 1
Long-tailed Antbird 2
Narino Tapaculo H only (seen later!)
Green & Black Fruiteater 1
Ashy-headed Tyrannulet 2
Scale-crested Pygmy-Tyrant H only.
Vermilion Flycatcher 1
Andean Solitaire 2
Brown-capped Vireo 2
Lesser Greenlet 1
Golden-fronted Redstart 10
Green Honeycreeper 2
Blue-naped Chlorophonia 1
Orange-bellied Euphonia 2
Fawn-breasted Tanager 2
Multicolored Tanager 1 (What a bird! After we had missed it at Km 18, we
finally found it in the forst patch behind the hummingbird feeders.)
Golden Tanager 12
Metallic-green Tanager 6
Golden-naped Tanager 1
Scrub Tanager 1
Beryl-spangled Tanager 2
Blue-winged Mountain-Tanager 1
Flame-rumped Tanager 1 male
Ash-throated Bush-Tanager 10
24/6 Munchique Nat Pk.Left Popoyan 3.45 am, arrived Munchique 6.45 am,
birded until 17.30 at ca 2100-2600m. Fine & sunny in the morning.
Increasingly cloudy and heavy rain and hail late afternoon.
25/6 Munchique Nat Pk Left lodge 4.30 am . Birded along road between 2600m
and 1900m on West Face (Pacific Slope). Fine early.Rain began 1.30pm, left
at 2.50 to return to Popoyan, arrived 5.45 pm.
Chestnut Wood-Quail H only (what else?)
Band-tailed Pigeon 2 24, 1 25
Barred Parakeet H only 24, 29 25
Scaly-naped Parrot H only 25
Rufous-banded Owl 1 same bird 24 & 25
Chestnut-collared Swift 12 24, 5 25
Tawny-bellied Hermit 3 25
Collared Inca 6 24, 2 25
Tourmaline Sunangel 4 24, 1 25
Colorful Puffleg 1 male 24 @ 2200m . This was a great thrill, as this bird,
discovered by John Dunning in only 1967, has been seen by very few
ornithologists. We went to the spot where Dunning had trapped the bird,
and walked into the forest along a path. The rest of the group had walked
out again, but I and another birder saw some long tubular hummingbird
flowers below the canopy of the cloud forest and decided to wait. A hummer
came in very briefly after about five minutes, and perched for less than a
second directly over my head, so all I could see was its cloacal region,
which looked readdish.This was a good sign. We told the rest of the group
about this, and they all came back and settled down to wait by the flowers.
After about 40 minutes, the hummer came in and spent nearly five minutes
in the vicinity of the flowers, allowing most people good looks at the
chestnut at the rear of its thigh-puffs. It was obvious why so few people
have seen this bird. Clearly it traplines within the cloud-forest, but
stays entirely below the canopy of the cloud-forest. So vitually the only
way to see it is to do what we did. Go into the forest, find some suitable
flowers, and wait.
Greenish Puffleg 4 25
Booted Racket-tail 1 25
Purple-backed Thornbill 1 25 (I think I was the only one to see this. Not
a great view, but I could make out the purple and the jizz was distinctive)
Viridian Metaltail 3 24
Long-tailed Sylph (emmae) 1 25
Yellow-vented Woodpecker 2 25 (lifer)
Tyrannine Woodcreeper 2 24 (lifer)
Rufous Spinetail 1 24, 1 25
White-browed Spinetail H only 25
Fulvous-dotted Tree-runner 2 25 (lifer. I missed the first bird seen, but
later had first-class views further down the road.)
Yellow-breasted Antpitta H only 25 (tho 2 of our number went into the forst
and glimpsed the bird)
Rufous Antpitta (Western Andes form) H only 24
Slate-crowned Antpitta H only 25
Unicolored Tapaculo H 24 & 25
Narino Tapaculo H only 24, 1 seen very well 25
Spillmann's Tapaculo H 24
Green-and-black Fruiteater 4 24, 6 25
Barred Fruiteater 1 24
Barred Becard 1 25
Streak-necked Flycatcher 1 25
Rufous-headed Pygmy-Tyrant 1s 2H 24,h 25
Black-throated Tody-Tyrant 2s 24,H 25 (lifer)
Flavescent Flycatcher 3 25
Cinnamon Flycatcher 6 24, 20+ 25
Slaty-backed Chat-Tyrant 1 24 (a good view at last).
Yellow-bellied Chat-tyrant 1 25
Fork-tailed Flycatcher 6 25
Brown-bellied Swallow common 24,2 25
Blue-and-white Swallow 6 25
Rufous Wren 3 24 H 25
Sharpe's Wren 6 24, H 25
Gray-breasted Woodwren 10 24, 9 25
Chestnut-breasted Wren H 24 & 25
Andean Solitaire 1 24
Great Thrush 20 24,10+ 25
Golden-fronted Redstart 10 24
Citrine Warbler 2 24
Capped Conebill 1 24 (blue-crowned race)
Bluish Flowerpiercer 10+ 24
Masked Flowerpiercer 1 24
White-sided Flowerpiercer 6 24
Indigo Flowerpiercer 3 25
Beryl-spangled Tanager 2 25
Purplish-mantled Tanager 2 25 (Wow!)
Golden-crowned Tanager 4 24,2,25 (also wow!)
Lacrimose Mountain-Tanager 6 24 & 25
Blue-winged Mountain-Tanager 1 24 & 25
Hooded Mountain-Tanager 2 24, 4 25
Dusky-bellied Bush-Tanager 3 24,10 25
Gray-hooded Bush-Tanager 1 24,2 25
Grass-green Tanager 4 24,3 25. (Caramba!)
Glistening-green Tanager 1 26
Black-winged Saltator 1 25
Pileated Finch 2 24
Slaty Brush-Finch 6 24
Saffron Finch 10 24
Next: on to Purace Nat Pk.
John Penhallurick
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Canberra, Australia
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