Illustrious Colorado birder and world traveler John Drummond will be the speaker at tonight's meeting of the Denver Field Ornithologists at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science at 7:30. Colombia has recently opened up to eco tourism and Pro Aves, the Colombian bird conservation organization, has been instrumental in purchasing land, building lodges to protect the many endangered endemic species and habitat types. Colombia possesses the highest number of bird species in the world, over 1870 at the latest count. This presentation describes a trip made in April 2010 to visit the endemic rich areas around the central Cauca and Magdelena valleys and the isolated Santa Marta Mountains on the Caribbean coast. The wide variety of habitat types of humid cloud forest, paramo, dry forest, marshes and desert scrub that we visited made for exciting birding, particularly colorful hummingbirds and psittacidae of which you will see plenty in John " s presentation.
Drummond started birding as a teenager in England in the RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds). His job as a petroleum researcher and quality control expert (PhD in inorganic chemistry) sent him to places like Singapore, Japan, and New Zealand. He moved to the US in 1987 and has been quite active in breeding bird surveys, international and local birding tour guiding, and is a board member of DFO and a member of the Colorado Rare Bird Committee. He probably knows as much or more about North American birds than most American birders and is thoroughly at home in Colorado. He has birded on six continents and has a world life list of around 6,700 species! He has seen birds in all 48 lower US states and in 40 different countries. Chuck Hundertmark, President Denver Field Ornithologists Lafayette, CO 80026 303-604-0531 [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en.
