Lemon-spectacled Tanager

Birding Colombia’s Western Andes Part II: Montezuma Road, Laguna de Sonsa, Anchicayá Valley, and San Cipriano

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29 August – 9 September 2015. Montezuma Road winds sinuously up into Tatamá National Park, located in the foothills and subtropics of the Chocó and is the only practical way to access the park. Montezuma Road is also famous among birding circles as THE place to see the endemic Gold-ringed Tanager as well as 10 other endemic species. In other [...]

At the end of the road and into the jungle

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13 – 22 July 2014 The Pan-American Highway starts to deteriorate in the town of Aguafría as you cross from Eastern Panamá Province into Darién Province. From the provincial border east you dodge pot holes, speed bumps and sleeping dogs for another hour or two. These are not just any ordinary pot holes though; some of them consume half the [...]