Simply Birding Catalog

Birding Colombia - Diego Calderon
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I was born in Medellin in 1980, and graduated with a degree in Biology early in 2007. I have been birding since 2000, when I started university and began conducting expeditions and field work throughout Antioquia, serving as both a field assistant and main researcher in a variety of bird and mammal projects. As my passion for birding grew, I began to do my own projects and to record bird sounds, focusing on the Andes, where birding is active year round. I almost never spent a weekend in the city, trying to be in the field as often as possible! Eventually, after so much birding in the Andes, I began to explore the biological riches of other Colombian areas: the Caribbean coast, the Chocó lowlands of the Atlantic, the inter-Andean valleys, and then the verdant jungle of the Amazon basin, the vast plains of the Llanos, and finally the lowlands of the Pacific Chocó. I have seen between 900 to1000 bird species in Colombia, and roughly 1400-1500 in the entire world (I know, I know… I have not taken the time to do my lifelist… I’m working on that!). Besides Colombia, I have thoroughly birded in Ecuador, Venezuela, Honduras, Mexico and Ireland, plus a little bit in northern Peru and Brazil (on the border with Colombia), Chile, and the USA… and just a minute on the German-Polish border! I have been guiding my own COLOMBIA Birding tours, as well as tours for friends, since mid 2007. I am enjoying this stuff too much; I love to be with people in the field, show them the birds and make them smile, and explore more of this great country along with my clients. I belong to several birding and ornithological societies, and keep myself in the academic mood by continuing to research and publish, as well as being editor of the Boletín SAO ornithological journal. You can download a short, hybrid academic/birding CV of me here.

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This item was added to our catalog on Thursday 02 September, 2010.