Valle del Cauca Trip

Guadualito Birding Tours offers eleven days in the Colombian countryside observing many of the country’s 1920+ known bird species. Based out of Cali, the tour visits four distinct birding locations: Guadualito Area, Coordillera Occidental, Wetlands and Coordillera Central. These locations take birders through open fields and riparian corridors to seek species of woodpeckers, flycatchers, and raptors. Toucanets, hummingbirds, tanagers, and quetzals call to birders in the lush jungle. On the banks of the Colombian wetlands, orioles, ibis, hawks, cormorants, and waterfowl play on the ground and in the sky. The Nirvana Reserve showcases motmots, trogons, potoos, and honeycreepers on the slopes of the central cordillera. The last days of the tour are spent in Cali, birding and experiencing Colombian city culture.

Colombian-born Santiago M. Escruceria, Guadualito Birding Tours owner and guide, opens up his family and friend’s homes and land to birding and naturalist events. He leads small groups through the countryside of his youth to share the beauty of the birds and the land. Santiago shares with clients copies of “A Guide To The Birds of Colombia,” “Birds of Northern South America,” and the new “Field Guide to the Birds of Colombia.” Clients also receive a general Colombian bird-list packet to document birds observed and to preserve many memorable moments.