Colombia is home to more bird species than any other place on Earth. The red-headed barbet is one. Image: ©Larry Blau
Hummingbirds, Monkeys, and Rainbow-colored Birds are all Part of the Magic of Birding in Southern Colombia
If the rolling, rugged road you're bumping along is the one less traveled, and its endpoint is a perfect rainbow – you must be in southern Colombia!
Colombia’s rainbows bloom in thousands of petals or dart in feathery brilliance across the sky, I love this country. But my favorite places here are in the southern Putumayo and Huila regions. Although their roads may be among the world's bumpiest and sometimes hair-raising, too, the blooms and feathers are brightest—and the welcome is warmest!
This year, we sent the Grassland Bird Trust on their annual international birding trip for fun and fundraising south and up, high, higher, and highest over those infamous roads into the southern Colombian Andes—or, as I think of it, hummingbird heaven! Read the article
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