Just after sunrise, in a cloud forest surrounded by patches of bamboo trees and coffee plants, the singing started. Then, a flash of scarlet flew past the raised cameras and binoculars: an Andean cock ...

Every year, on the Global Big Day, thousands of bird-watchers across the world compete to record as many species of birds as possible. In Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, bird-watching is ...

Natalia Ocampo-Peñuela, assistant professor of environmental studies, and a team of Colombian researchers have introduced a transformative approach to mapping bird species distribution across Colombia ...

In a forest of Colombia, a multi-colored bird waited its turn to approach the bird feeder. When it finally came close, the onlooking scientists were stunned. On its left side, the green honeycreeper ...

The Santa Marta sabrewing has now been documented in the wild only twice since its formal discovery over 70 years ago. Reading time 3 minutes Conservationists in Colombia have recently rediscovered ...

Bilateral gynandromorph green honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza) photographed in the wild in Colombia. (Credit: John Murillo.) An “extremely rare” half-female, half-male bird has been caught on film, a ...

Colombia has once again soared to the top of the world’s largest bird count. Recording an astonishing 1,563 bird species during the recent edition of Global Big Day 2025, the country reaffirms its ...

WHOEVER SAID a bird in the hand is better than two in the bush hasn’t been to the cloud forests of Colombia’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains. As the 7 a.m. light breaks through the canopy near ...