THE BIRDERS | A feathered adventure in the Colombian Amazon.

my name is Morgan hi I'm a natural history photographer and I've come to Columbia to explore the purrs of the Andes the Pacific be honest plains and the Amazon come join me and discover what logia is the number one in bird species on earth [Music] at MSI poker me Tupelo Lopez today Jamison neural net e-mini temperament now you're even majima me to salvini we are deep in the Amazon this is probably the biggest forest I've ever seen it it's like there couldn't be enough room for all the life here the everything just wants to grow and live it's exactly like my dreams as a kid we're in an area called me to one of the things very important to this area is that there are a lot of indigenous cultures here there's more than 26 different languages spoken here by different communities that live in the area and all of our guides are from different villages one of our main guards was Miguel and you can tell that he really loves the birds de pasión at Parliament this massage [Music] la Saracen moon station 15 in Darrell do the fruit and Alegria main Cantus cancel men can ptosis colorist get arrested great eyes he can see anything flitting about in the forest the Amazon is one of the biggest rainforest regions of the world and even if it looks very homages is made out of several different habitats there is terra firma dairy Singapore Marcia white sand forest and all these habitats are responsible for a huge diversity of birds this is probably the most physical trip that I've been on in Colombia across three days we hiked about 40 kilometers there was true jungle horse racking hiking climbing over things [Music] while we were here in the Amazon we probably saw over a hundred species of different birds [Music] [Laughter] but there's so much forest it's like they've got so many places they can go so you have to really work for it you have to stand there and search through these leaves so you can see a lot of birds filming them is a lot different [Music] the birds move so fast and sometimes it's random you have no idea which direction they're gonna go it's just instantaneous a lot of these birds like the ant bird and that bird was my nemesis the whole time I'm really trying to see these am birds and they love to just be down in the bottom in the forest one of the typical phenomena that you can witness in the Amazon is ant following Birds several different birds from different families follow these swarms of army ants feeding on the floor pray that they leave behind [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] one of the birds that I most wanted to see was called the of the rock it's a bird that requires very specific conditions to live in Emma lengua decimo tawa para hacer una Vista means today got a rocket overcoming our busting you have to put all of your trust and faith in these guys as we're just pushing our way through the jungle for miles and eventually getting to just what seems like this big random boulder in the middle of the jungle there's a female top of the rock she was just there just flew off to the left we're looking for the bird we often are going into these huge boulder fields into these caves [Music] the guy Alan of the rock is one of these very dimorphic birds females are dull and they use any ledges any little platform some rocks to build their nests male cook of the rock is super brightly color and one of the special things is that as a crest that covers the bill Roopa : rupee Cola its scientific name actually means dwelling on rocks dwelling on boulders and that's where they nest the key takeaway for me from coming to the Amazon is this sense of community these communities and people are all working together to figure out how to have but tourism business here in the Amazon shi Yan trabajo de pensamiento conocimiento traditional asociado size Kamikaze trail tsubasa la relación Casey stay el mundo indeed in a concise car especially Ava's no Emmet a moment ah he tosses absolutamente toes dentro la Nieto Lohia quarum Clara's para algo especial porque en todas indigenous coffee Nevada porque es lo que quieres que realmente unbeneficial Turismo Portugal directamente La Colonia yeseo mucho porque for canon contra or traximus economic upon a suspect of a media getting to learn about how the people here live off the land it was a genuine welcome to my life in my home and I'm excited to share my life with you that's something that I hope continues as more people come here it's just friendship please para me sooner go yo cave in the ancestral steppe destined hero - Oscar como que no lo Indian atomic bomb inherently system operat para para maana really smooth in some capacity easier for you [Music]

Channel: Colombiatravel

Views: 225,369

Rating: 4.9418182 out of 5

Keywords: backyard bird identification, birds, bird feeders, ornithology, bird calls, bird identification, all birds, tropical birds, bird watching, rare birds, bird sanctuary, wild birds, bird identifier, bird species, birdsong, audubon birds, birding, birds photos, whatbird, migratory birds, backyard birds, colombia, THE BIRDERS, THE AMAZON, THE ANDES, THE CARIBBEAN, THE ORINOQUIA, THE PACIFIC, learn birds names, learn about birds

Id: lAaNcPQeXsA

Length: 11min 4sec (664 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 11 2019