| January Date: Tuesday 7th, 2025 Zoom only Guest Speaker: Thea Beckman Topic: Colombia: Birding the High Andes, Coffee Triangle, and Caribbean Coast (links to YouTube recording) • Golden-collared Manakins Courtship Dance & Mating • Red Howler Monkeys Howling |




This presentation delivers a sweeping (photographic) account of 8 DNS members’ birding adventures through Colombia, starting in the high-altitude capital city of Bogota and its unique surrounding vegetation and ending in the endemic hotspot of Santa Marta on the Caribbean coast.

Thea Beckman (MSc) is a science-educated professional writer with a life-long passion for birding and travel. Although she was born in Vancouver, Thea grew up in South Africa, where she birded extensively with her mother from age 5. She has traveled and birded around Southeast Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe, and now North, South, and Central America.
Today, she works as the Director of Marketing of an education technology company based in the States, but the fires of devotion to birding and travel continue to burn bright!
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