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Top 10 Hummingbirds You Can Only Film in Colombia
Colombia is the most bird-diverse country on earth, and it’s also the most hummingbird-diverse. Of the roughly 360 hummingbird species found on earth, almost 170 are found in Colombia.
The Birders Show, Panama
Taking our passion project, The Birders Show, on the road for the first time to Tranquilo Bay Ecolodge in Bocas del Toro, Panama.
WhereNext Live: The Joy of Birding from Home
For our latest WhereNext Live video, we present our resident bird expert Chris Bell in conversation with the National Audubon Society and the Colombian Embassy in Washington DC.
Birding From Home: The Birders Documentary Goes Global
WhereNext’s stay-at-home interactive documentary film The Birders has now been featured by BBC Wildlife Magazine, AFAR, Sierra Club, El Tiempo newspaper, and Bird Watcher's Digest. This global coverage has inspired thousands to download the checklist, bird the film, and dream about birding in Colombia once travel becomes possible again.
Birding 'The Birders' - The Colombian Pacific Coast
Bird from home! We've prepared a comprehensive birding checklist to accompany our storytelling agency’s documentary "The Birders: A photographer’s view of Colombia’s Pacific Coast." Identify colorful trogons and tanagers in the Pacific jungle from the comfort of your armchair, sofa, or hammock. No binoculars required!
Birding 'The Birders' - The Colombian Andes
Bird from home! We've prepared a comprehensive birding checklist to accompany our storytelling agency’s documentary "The Birders: A family’s nest in the Colombian Andes." Identify some of the region's most beautiful endemic species from the comfort of your armchair, sofa, or hammock. No binoculars required!
Birding 'The Birders' - The Colombian Amazon
Bird from home! We've prepared a comprehensive birding checklist to accompany our documentary "The Birders: A feathered adventure in the Colombian Amazon." Identify some of the region's most spectacular and unusual birds from the comfort of your armchair, sofa, or hammock. No binoculars required!
Birding 'The Birders' - Colombia's Eastern Plains
Bird from home! We've prepared a comprehensive birding checklist to accompany our documentary "The Birders: A winged safari through the grasslands of Colombia's Orinoquia." Identify more than 30 of the Colombian Plains region's most spectacular birds from the comfort of your armchair, sofa, or hammock. No binoculars required!
Chris’s Tips for Birding From Home
Our Colombian production company has a strong connection with birding: we produced a feature-length documentary about birding in Colombia and our office is filled with bird-lovers. For the latest in our series of “work from home” tips, our resident hardcore birder Chris Bell shares his top tips for birders stuck at home.
Quarantine Birding? We’ve Made It Easy to Bird Our Documentary Film “The Birders”
Bird from home! We’ve prepared a comprehensive birding checklist to accompany our feature-length documentary film “The Birders.” Identify more than 100 Colombian bird species, both resident and migratory, from the comfort of your armchair, sofa, or hammock. No binoculars required!
Colombian Birds Go Big: How Our Global Communications Agency Created the Birders Campaign
In 2018, the Colombian Ministry of Tourism selected WhereNext as their communications agency to produce the country’s 2019 birding tourism campaign. A mixed private-and-public-sector committee unanimously awarded the contract to us over every major production and creative studio, both national and international, with offices in Colombia—including Discovery Channel, National Geographic, and Fox Studios.
Top 10 Birds That You Can Only Film in Colombia
Colombia is one of the best places on earth for filming rare and endemic bird species. Here are 10 examples of beautiful birds that can only be documented in Colombia.
The Holy Grail of Birding Documented by our Colombian Based Production Company
WhereNext was the first film production company to film a natural history documentary in remote Mitú, Colombia. Chris Bell gives the skinny on the project.