Inirida, The Amamzon and the Orinoquia
Inirida, The Amamzon and the Orinoquia
A travel to the remote Colombia, this time to the Orinoco river basin to the north Amazon jungle where the white sand forest, the riparian forest, the savanna and the varzea forest delight us with the most fantastic diversity of bird species with out moving long distances and enjoying one of the unknown, remote but keeper places of Colombia.
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Set departures
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2024-Oct-14
2024-Nov-23
2025-Jul-15
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Region
Amazon
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Inirida, The Amamzon and the Orinoquia
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A travel to the remote Colombia, this time to the Orinoco river basin to the north Amazon jungle where the white sand forest, the riparian forest, the savanna and the varzea forest delight us with the most fantastic diversity of bird species with out moving long distances and enjoying one of the unknown, remote but keeper places of Colombia.
Schedule
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Arrival to Bogota El Dorado International Airport BOG
Arrival to Bogota El Dorado International Airport BOG. Spend a night in Bogota to flight the next morning to Inirida.
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Flights to Inirida – Caño Culebra Trail
Flights to Inirida – Caño Culebra Trail, from Bogota we flight to Inirida our new Amazon location, which is part to the Orinoco river basin but with amazon jungles, the main forest are varzea, riparian and white sand amazon forest, most of the locations are pretty near to the town except for the Mavecure hills, the ground transportation is going to be in tuk-tuks (Motorcycle vehicules of three wheels) at Inirida we will stay at Fuentes del Guainia, the place we stayed all nights in this region, after Lunch by midd afternoon w ego birdwatching at Caño Culebra a place where we spect to observe birds as Brown-throated Parakeet, White-fringed Antwren, Black Manakin, White-browed Purpletuft, Fulvous-crested Tanager, burnish-buff Tanager, Wedge-tailed Grassfinch, White-throated Toucan, Gilded Barbet and more, travel back to the Lodge specting for more good birding the next day.
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Comunidad Sabanitas and Curva de Los Pepes
Comunidad Sabanitas and Curva de Los Pepes to the Afternoon – les than thirty minutes from Inirida we are going to find the Sabanitas Comunity, and indegenous location surrounded by impresive scrub and white sand forest crossed by trails and open areas; great birds to watch here include Azure-naped Jay, Golden-spangled Piculet, Cobalt-winged Parakeet, Olivaceous Woodcreeper, Bara-necked Fruitcrow, Pompadour Cotinga, Yellow-crowned and Wire-tailed Manakins, Chestnut,crowned Becard, Rufous-tailed Flatbill, Opal-rumped and Paradise Tanagers, Short-billed Honeycreeper, Brown Jacamar, Scale-breasted Woodpecker, and great chances to one of the targets of the trip the impressive Capuchinbird that is usually well spotted by our local indigenous guides, the lunch is going to be in the comunity, according to our needs we play it by ear if stay at the place or move somewhere else for more birds, by the end of the day we go to Curva de Los Pepes, a location in the road and place to look for Black-faced Tanager, White-naped Seedeater, Plain-crested Elaenia and Campina Thrush.
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Matraca Trail and Caño Cunuben
Matraca Trail and Caño Cunuben, this and the next day will requiered a boat ride, this in order to get to the varzea forest, a very special enviroment of the Amazon, there is several species exclusive to this special ecosystem those will be our target in the place one of the highlights is the Orinoco Softtail an endemic and rare species with a pretty small range, other targets here include Varzea Schifornis, Rose-breasted Chat, Long-billed Woodcreeper, Velvet-fronted Grackle, Gray-headed Tanager, Screaming Piha, Wire-tailed Manakin, Silvered Antbird, Speckled Spinetail, Chestnut-capped Puffbird and Ringed Woodpecker, this is one we consider one of the highlights of the trip; we go back to the town for lunch, and get to a nearby spot called Caño Cunuben in the afternoon; some of the targets are Crane Hawk, Black-tailed Trogon, Orinoco Piculet, Channel-billed Toucan, Black-headed Parrot, Rusty-backed Spinetail, Golden-bellied Euphonia and more!
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Caño La Rompida and Caño Cajaro
Caño La Rompida and Caño Cajaro, The visit to La Rompida and Caño Cajaro has to be by boat, the predominat ecosystem is the riparian, this to the Guaviare River sides; home for wetlant and riparian forest species, the birds to look for are Green-tailed Goldenthroat, the enigmatic Hoatzin, Sungrebe, Slender-billed Kite, White-eared Jacamar, Orinoco Piculet, Black-crested Antshrike, Yellow-chinned Spinetail, Fuscous Flycatcher, Black-capped Donacobius, Green Oropendola, Solitary Black Cacique, Red-capped Cardinal and Hooded Tanagers, perhaps the main target in this ecosysten is the endemic and undescribed Iniridad Antshrike a species of “Thamnophilus” that was fount few years ago. Caño Cajaro just in front of La Rompida it is slighltly different and could provide us views of different species such as Rufous-breasted hermit, Black-fronted Nunbird, Spot-winged Antshrike, Amazonian-streaked Antwren, Yellow-crowned Elaenia and Hauxwell’s Thrush.
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Yapacana Trail & Caño Vitina
Yapacana Trail and Caño Vitina, just fifteen minutes from Inirida we reached to one of the predominat enviroments in the área, the white San Forest, this time to Kenke or also known as the Yapacana Trail, this name comes of a species of bird which is our main target to the place Yapacana Antbird that at the time is one of the most uncommon Orinoco endecmics that fortunately is found to this amazing sight, walking the trails we also can enjoy views of Green-tailed Goldenthroat that usually goes to the Inirida Flowers, Bronzy Jacamar, Amazonian Antshrike, Saffron-crested Tyrant-manakin, Plumbeous Euphonia, Black-faced Tanager and the shy White-naped Seedeater are some of the Good ones from this place, in the afternoon our great sight is named Caño Vitina, a small indegenous community with beautiful trails and birds some of those could be American Pygmy Kingfisher, Spangled Cotinga, Yellow-crowned Manakin, Brown-banded and Spotted Puffbirds.
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Cerros de Mavecure & El Remanso Community
Cerros de Mavecure and El Remanso Comunity. The highlight during this day will be the Mavecure Hills, those are a group striking and iconic granite rock formations of the Guayanan schield surrounded by the Amazon rain forest and the white sand Amazon forest, some of the birds likely to watch include Black-collared Swallow, Orange—breasted Falcon, Black Manakin among others, El Remanso is a pretty remote indigenous community that inhabits the White Sand Forest ecosystem that surrounds the hills.
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Caño Vitina & Flights to Bogota
Caño Vitina and Flights to Bogota, In the last morning we go back to Caño Vitina to chase missing species and more goodies and will departure according to our flight time.
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Departures from Bogota international Airport El Dorado BOG
Departures from Bogota international Airport Luis Carlos Galan, El Dorado BOG.
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