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Pandemic makes feeding of hummingbirds difficult in Colombia

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Cali, May 17 (EFE).- While Colombia last week won the World Bird Watching Championships for most species recorded, the coronavirus epidemic in the country is making it difficult to continue feeding those at Alejandria farm, known as "El Paraíso de los Colibríes" (The Hummingbirds Paradise).Raul Horacio Nieto, an Argentinian living in Colombia and one of the owners of the Finca Alejandria on the outskirts of Cali, said that they usually feed dozens of birds with the income they make from tourism, but there hasn’t been any tourists for almost two months since the mandatory quarantine to combat COVID-19 was announced.(Camera: ERNESTO GUZMAN JR)FOOTAGE SHOWS HUMMINGBIRDS IN THE ALEJANDRÍA FARM IN CALI, COLOMBIA.SOUNDBITES: OWNER OF ALEJANDRÍA FARM DERAUL HORACIO NIETO (IN SPANISH)TRANSLATIONS:(00:06:00-00:00:37) Finca Alejandría is a bird habitation site that today is already an emblematic site in the Valle del Cauca area to come and see birds. There is a record of 347 species of which 32 are hummingbirds and the rest (...) are other bird species. It is a very visited placee by all the people from around here in the valley and from all over the world.(00:00:42-00:01:54) Finca Alejandría has 60 feeders to feed 32 species of hummingbirds, which drink an average of 380 liters of water daily and eat 750 kilos of sugar per month. Birds -which are birds like tangaras, tucanetas or quetzales- eat bananas and have an average of 200 or 250 bananas a day now that we are in low season. In high season they reach 400 bananas a day (...) They are between 12 and 14 monthly packages of sugar at 140,000 pesos (about $ 35) each; there are between eight and 14 boxes of bananas every five days, at 20,000 pesos (about five dollars) each. All that came from what was the income of tourists. Today Finca Alejandría no longer has that contribution and we are exhausting resources, we are suffering from this situation, and ecotourism is suffering from the situation of not having tourists. (00:01:59-00:02:14) When there was no pandemic and you could go out and do a good job of counting birds, in total Colombia has a record of 1,969 species, it is the number one country in the world in bird registration.

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