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NEW TOUR!! !4 Complete Days of Birding in CENTRAL PANAMA & Canal Area ! !"A marathonic birding fiesta"... visiting the Pacific and Atlantic and Panama Canal hotspots ! This is our most popular birding trip to Central Panama -– 4-days dedicated to birding in National Parks including San Lorenzo National Park, Soberania National Park, Metropolitan City Park and other locales with a variety of habitats, including marshlands and lowland humid and dry rainforest.
“In only 6 complete days of birding, Gonzalo Horna helped my group to see 302 species in 2002, 306 species in 2003 and 290 species in 2004...Year after year its a pleasure and a good blessing to come back here. The birds, nature are great. Gonzalo...and the Staff are just wonderful. Thanks and all the success you deserve. Hasta Luego." Laval Roy, Porte Platon, Quebec, Canada. Lavar ( AT ) videotron.ca. “Birding highlights include Crested Owl (actually seen and not just heard for a change) and Blue Cotinga, which features quite reliably along the road side... We hope to return before too long. " James A. Christensen, Vancouver B.C., Canada, jchristensen ( AT ) look.ca and Avid A. Christensen, Tucoma, USA, scppc2000 ( AT ) yahoo.com. “We all really appreciated the time and effort that you put into showing us the birds of the Gamboa and Achiote Road areas”. Barbara, Kathleen, Don, Howie, Dave, Dennis, Carol, Rob, Melissa, Miriam and Eva Callahan, 2008. "The -noisy- group! Evamsc ( AT ) verizon.net.
“All in all, it was
a memorable adventure and birding trip and you helped make it special.”
- Areas to visit during the tour:
We will visit the most and the least frequented birding hotspots in Central
Panama, including the world-renowned Pipeline Road, Achiote Road, Old Gamboa
Road (Summit Ponds), Plantation Trail, Fort Sherman, San Lorenzo Road and more.
ITINERARY IN BRIEF ARRIVAL DAY Coming from a prior birding destination or arriving at Tocumen International Airport i will meet you and assist you resolve the initial logistic for the tour. Day1Our first birding day will start at 6:15 am at the Metropolitan Nature Park in Panama city (470 acres of dry second and youngest growth forest with patches of grassy areas ) giving us the opportunity to beginning with the search of the Lance-tailed Manakin, the endemic Yellow-green Tyrannulet, Rosy Thrush-Tanager (uncommon), Orange-chinned Parakeets, Pheasant Cuckoo (rare) and more; after lunch birding will continue until around 3:00pm when we will start our ride to Achiote Town. On the road (driving slowly) we’ll stop for birds along the road and at well known spots like at Gatun Lock and at the Chagres River (Gatun Dam spillway) in search of Road-site Hawk, American Kestrel, Cocoi Heron, Tricolored Heron, Kill-billed and Chessnut-mandible Tucan, Yellow-headed Caracara… after dinner we will go over the bird-list and vote for the best bird of the day (bb of the d), follow by a short night birding walk in search of owls, nightjars, nighthawks and pauraques. . And after a long and productive day, a well deserved night sleep. Day2 The early birding day starts in Achiote Road and surrounding areas looking for species that favor humid condition. We will be on the search of the Spot-crowned Barbet, White-headed Wren, Long-tailed Tyrant, Blue Cotinga, White Hawk, Flame-rumped Tanager, Montezuma Oropendola and many other species that can be found here. At 8:30am a well deserved breakfast with binoculars at hand to catch a gleans of a Rufous-tailed Hummingbird, a probable Barred and Fasciated Antshrike and others. After breakfast the birding fiesta will continue at trails and in shaded coffee plantation. After lunch (2:00pm) in route to Fort Sherman and Fuerte San Lorenzo (wet lowland tropical forest with also areas of grass, scrubs, mangroves , marshes and coastline) we will look for the Straight-billed Woodcreeper, Golden-collared Manakin, Rufous Motmot, Checker-throated Antwren, Piratic Flycatcher, birding along the way and later on the afternoon back to Gamboa Town. After dinner we will go over the day bird-list and select the high light and the bbd. Overnight to recuperate for the next day. Day 3 Early birding on the Old Gamboa Rd. also known as the Summit Pond area traverses areas of dry forest, scrub, grassland and natural ponds. A walk down the road will allow a great views of many species including Great Antshrike, Pale-vented Pigeons, Blue Ground-Doves, Orange Chinned Parakeets, Red-crowned Woodpecker, Lesser and Great Kiskadee, Boat-billed Heron, Streak Saltator, Ringed, Amazon and Green Kingfishers are possible and more. Later in the afternoon on Plantation Trail and the El Charco Trail we will listen to the call and look for the Slaty-tailed Trogon; Golden-crowned Spadebill, Southern Bentbill, Blue-crowned Manakin and other great forest birds, And the day bird-list with the “bb of the d” and comments will end a successful day. Overnight. Day 4 Early birding on Pipeline Road ( a secondary forest with some scrubbier areas, with many streams crossing it). We will heard and look for the Southern Bentbill, Pheasant Cuckoo, Green Shrike-Vireo, Grey Elaenia, Streak-chested Antpitta, Spotted Antbird, Long-billed Gnatwren, Great Jacamar and, before heading for lunch a visit to the Ammunition Ponds (marshy area), very productive during any hour of the day, we will search for the Snail Kite, White-throated Crakes, Ruddy-breasted Seedeaters, Rufescent Tiger-Heron, Variable Seedeater, Smooth-billed Ani and more. In the afternoon we will visit The Summit Gardens for Oropendolas, Caciques and Hummingbirds and El Charco Trail to see the Black-breasted Jay, Collared Arassari, White-wiskered Puffbird and more. At noon before the farewell dinner we will work on our “last day bird-list” and vote for the “bb of the d”. The group will summarize on the complete tour bird-list, a vote for the best bird and the best day of the tour and the correspondent comments for the complete tour will be appreciated. DEPARTURE DAY You will be assisted throughout the final procedure for departure to your next birding destination.
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