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Photographic Highlights from Colombia


PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS FROM A SEP-OCT 2011 VISIT


Colombia's llanos: ranches, farms, and forest



Postman butterfly, Heliconius sp (blue form)



Black skimmer in flight



Butterfly



Gorgona island



Horned screamer



Hoatzins



Caiman



Sugar cane in Colombia



Blue-gray tanager



Blue-and-yellow macaw



Headshot of a green iguana (Iguana iguana)



Parrot



Sugar cane in Colombia



Baby caiman



Black skimmers



Parrot



Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia)



Cabybara



Cabybara



Gorgona shoreline



Cabybara



Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia)



Cabybara



Lizard



Hoatzins



Scarlet ibis



Green-tailed Jacamar (Galbula galbula)



Scarlet ibis



Caiman



Cabybara



Capped Heron (Pilherodius pileatus)



Cabybara



Cabybara



Brown Vine Snake



Caiman



Cattle



Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia)



Cattle in Colombia's llanos



Flock of egrets



Green-tailed Jacamar (Galbula galbula)



Hoatzin



Beach on Isla Gorgona



Ginger comb



Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia)



Cabybara



Blue-and-yellow macaw



Tortoise



Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia)



Cowboy fishing with a throw net



Green iguana on a river bank



Blue-and-yellow macaw



Snake



Bay on Gorgona



Wetlands in the llanos



Ginger combs



American Black Vulture



Playa Palmera on Gorgona Island



Big tree



Red crabs on Playa Palmera



Cabybara



Chestnut-eared Aracari (Pteroglossus castanotis)



Bird



Horned screamer



Frog



Butterfly



Isla Gorgona



Corn in Colombia



Hamadryas butterfly



Scarlet ibis



Cattle



Blue-and-yellow macaw



Oriole



Capybaras in a river



Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia)



Sharp-tailed Ibis (Cercibis oxycerca)



Red-headed jesus christ lizard



Orinoco Geese (Neochen jubata)



Iguana, up close and personal



Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia)



Corn in Colombia



Orinoco Geese



Woman cutting the head off a catfish



Hoatzins



White-headed capuchin monkey



Frog



Butterfly



Red-pink dragonfly



Industrial rubber plantation in Colombia



Cattle on a Colombian ranch



Dead armored catfish used as bait in Colombia



Sugar cane in Colombia



White-headed capuchin sticking out its tongue



Red crabs on Playa Palmera



Turquoise sea and rain forest of Isla Gorgona



Forest fragment amid cattle pasture in Colombia



Greater Ani (Crotophaga major)



Cattle



Deer



Ginger flower comb



Red howler monkey



Hoatzin



Playa Palmera on Gorgona Island



White-headed capuchin monkeys grooming



Fish



Windmill in a corn field in eastern Colombia



Hoatzins



Sugar cane in Colombia



Deer



White-headed capuchin monkey eating fruit



Yellow-headed Caracara (Milvago chimachima)



Industrial rubber plantation



Caiman



Cattle



Sugar cane in Colombia



Adult wattled jacana



Red howler monkey



Cattle



Hoatzins



Yellow-rumped cacique




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