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Some facts about Colombia • For altitude, we use meters parameter, and for temperature we use degrees Celsius.
• The local ornithologist guides, are more expert in Latin than in English when referring to the names of the birds. Guide books and CDs recommended • CDs The chants of 630 bird species of the Colombian Andes, has been included in a collection of seven compact discs, in the largest sound collection of this nature done in the American Continent, which record one third of the bird species that exist in Colombia: the Program Coordinator of Inventories of the Biodiversity Institute, Alexander von Humboldt, Mauricio Alvarez Rebolledo [
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• A guide to the Birds of Colombia: Princeton University Press, SL Hilty, WL Brown
- Princeton, New Jersey, 1986
• Birds of Northern South America: An Identification Guide, Volume 2: Plates and Maps by Robin Restall, Clemencia Rodner, and Miguel Lentino
• GUIDE OF THE PLOVERS AND BEACH BIRDS OF THE REGION NEOTROPICAL of P.Canevari, G.Castro, M.Sallaberry and L.G.Naranjo
• BIRDS OF THE VALLEY OF ABURRA: Book elaborated by the Antioquian Society of Ornithology with the patronage of the Metropolitan Area. It Contains a commented list of 436 species that have been registered in the Valley of Aburrá, as well as illustrations of 115 species elaborated by four artists of Medellin and a knowledgeable North American of the local avifauna.
• BIRDS OF THE BOGOTA SAVANNAH
• GUIDE OF THE BIRDS OF THE NATURAL RESERVATION OF THE SONSO LAGOON
• GUIDE OF THE BIRDS OF THE BOTANICAL GARDEN "Jose Celestino Mutis".
•CHECKlIST OF THE BIRDS OF COLOMBIA besides containing 671 genus, the 1865 species and all the registeredsubspecies in Colombia until March, 2001, it presents, in a very brief way, the updated information about geographical and ecological distribution of the species and their status of conservation (categories of threat) as well as their migratory, transient, or stray(vagabond) condition.
Also includes an appendix with the species registered near the border with the neighboring countries and that have not yet been found in Colombia and a relatively extensive bibliography to document the changes that are presented.
• WINGED JEWELS OF COLOMBIA: work of more than 110 species are recorded, of hummingbirds and, additionally, an important number of subspecies in their natural environment.
This text relies on the production, the design and the photographs of Luis A. Mazariegos, texts by Luis German Naranjo, Humberto Álvarez, Carolina Murcia and Jorge Enrique Orjuela and on the presentation and support of the Antioquia Society of Ornithology, among other entities |
