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  1. Adun

    check out pajarear.co

    Hi If you plan to go birding in Colombia, you might want to check out this website: Pajarear en Colombia Basically, it gives you the frequency each bird species is observed in each HotSpot in Colombia, so you can answer questions such as: If I want to see X species, ¿which would be the best...
  2. Adun

    Eagle Optics Kingbird 6.5x32

    After quite several birding outings, they are doing more than great. They are just awesome. For birding in general they've been fantastic. I'm seeing more birds (and now I'm more often the one to spot them), and I see more detail too. The color rendition is great, and the depth of field is just...
  3. Adun

    Colombia March 2020 (Andes, Magdalena Valley, Santa Marta)

    I think it's nice that you're taking your time (23d), I like to "travel slow" and comprehensively. Your choice of month (March) is good, although I wonder why not February. How is your itinerary covering the Pacific and Amazon ecosystems?
  4. Adun

    Advice for Binoculars

    Hi Paul What 8x56 would give her is a larger "exit pupil" than 8x42. 56/8 = 7, so 7mm exit pupil 42/8 = 5.2, so. 5.25mm exit pupil. Larger pupils do indeed mean a brighter image, but to take advantage of a 7mm exit pupil, she'd need her own pupil to dilate as much, and normally, only young...
  5. Adun

    Eagle Optics Kingbird 6.5x32

    The second Kingbird 6.5x32 arrived today, and after testing it outside, it seems to work just as well as the first one that my wife has been using. No quality problems. This will be my main birding bino from now on.
  6. Adun

    Eagle Optics Kingbird 6.5x32

    I was speaking of depth of field, which for me -visually- is the best thing about 6.5x power. A very reasonable and understandable opinion Jerry. I've read great things about the Leupold Yosemite, including your comments about the BX-1 model. Last Sunday we went birding again, and my wife...
  7. Adun

    Eagle Optics Kingbird 6.5x32

    Un-even focus, for any reason (mechanical or otherwise) is not something I have observed on the Kingbird. However, with the depth of field being so generous at 6.5x, and my eyes still being young/accommodating, maybe it's there and I just haven't noticed.
  8. Adun

    Eagle Optics Kingbird 6.5x32

    If you mean whether turning the focuser changes the IPD, I just asked my wife and she says it doesn't. I didn't feel any issue regarding that either, but I only used them for 20 minutes, after we were almost done birding. Still, given how the focuser is very, very stiff, I can see how someone...
  9. Adun

    Eagle Optics Kingbird 6.5x32

    I wanted to thank Steve C and FrankD, and for their reviews of the Eagle Optics 6.5x32 porro, but those threads are 10 years old and won't let me comment, so I'm starting a new one and adding my own two cents. I'm on a very (very!) tight budget, in South America, and upgrading from cheap $32...
  10. Adun

    Birding in Colombia

    I just realized I had mislabeled this picture. This is not the female woodnymph, it's an Andean emerald (Amazilia franciae). Sorry to have misguided you. I can't edit the picture, ¿Maybe a mod can delete it?
  11. Adun

    Favoured types of birding trips

    I can see jurek's point, but I can't stop seeing it as part of a bigger human set of very complex issues. Swiss citizens can freely enter Ecuador without a Visa. ¿Why can't Ecuadorian citizens do the same in Switzerland? ¿Why can't African humans wander just as freely as you do, in Alaska...
  12. Adun

    Best place to see a Cock of the Rock lek

    Question from a new birder here: ¿What time of the year should one go to see a lek group in actual/full "lekking" activity? I understand there's another lek group near Cali (where I live), I a place called La Leonera, and I wonder when would be the best time to visit
  13. Adun

    9 days in Colombia, March 2019

    Very interesting report. I really appreciate you going into so much detail, there's very useful information here. My wife and I are Colombians, and just started birding in January. So far we've been exploring the south west of the county (around where we live), and when we eventually explore...
  14. Adun

    Favoured types of birding trips

    I agree with you. My wife and I only recently started birding, and we are starting to notice the big difference between serious outings with professional guides and "winging it" ourselves. Also the difference between the truly local guide (the one who lives near the observing area and is there...
  15. Adun

    Birding in Colombia

    Yes, that's a male crowned woodnymph.
  16. Adun

    Birding in Colombia

    I'm not good with such cold temperatures. I live 400km south west from where you stayed, in a valley between the western and central Andes, where it's spring yearlong, always around 24°C (±4°C). If you visit Colombia again, you should stay longer. There's just way too much to see. If you need...
  17. Adun

    Birding in Colombia

    Colombia Yes, we have plenty of birds over here :king: It's binoculars we are kind of short on
  18. Spectacled parrotlet (5/5)

    Spectacled parrotlet (5/5)

    Following up on these non-pets (part 4 of 5), that live in a small colony near a lagoon: I took all 5 photos from an observing tower, using a superzoom camera at around 40x. Then they came to the tower, and hung from the roof, singing loudly and looking below, for a good while, seemingly...
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  19. Spectacled parrotlet (4/5)

    Spectacled parrotlet (4/5)

    Aaaawwwwwwww
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  20. Spectacled parrotlet (3/5)

    Spectacled parrotlet (3/5)

    Following up on these non-pets (part 3 of 5), that live in a small colony near a lagoon: They are adorable, very very playful, and judging by how they seem to come and go and play in pairs, and how they behave with each other, I'd venture to say their mutual bond runs deep. The blue spectacled...
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  21. Adun

    Guía Ilustrada de la Avifauna Colombiana

    For the use case of identifying birds from visual field marks and location, the book is pretty much language independent (drawings and scientific names + English names). There is a little text about behavior or nesting for some species, though, but I don't often read that. It's the...
  22. Spectacled parrotlet (2/5)

    Spectacled parrotlet (2/5)

    These are not pets. They live in a small colony near a lagoon When they open their wings (to fly), the blue underside is magnificent. They are adorable, very very playful, and judging by how they seem to come and go and play in pairs, and how they behave with each other, I'd venture to say...
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  23. Spectacled parrotlet (1/5)

    Spectacled parrotlet (1/5)

    These are not pets. They live in a small colony near a lagoon When they open their wings (to fly), the blue underside is magnificent. They are adorable, very very playful, and judging by how they seem to come and go and play in pairs, and how they behave with each other, I'd venture to say...
    • Adun
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  24. Adun

    Do House Wrens eat small lizards?

    I saw the bird once more, but I didn't have the camera at the ready. I'm Now on a birding trip away from home, so hopefully when I return home in a week I'll have another chance to photograph it for ID.
  25. Adun

    Do House Wrens eat small lizards?

    Thank you both! I hope I see him/her again.
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