Species Eva or Herman saw while staying at Sierra Llorona Panama Lodge the last week of February, 2005.
Asterisk indicates Eva got a photograph. "h" indicates heard only.
- Great Tinamou*
- Little Tinamou h
- Brown Pelican
- Neotropic Cormorant
- Magnificent Frigatebird*
- Bare-throated Tiger-Heron (questionable) *
- Great Blue Heron*
- Great Egret*
- Snowy Egret*
- Little Blue Heron*
- Tricolored Heron
- Reddish Egret
- Cattle Egret*
- Green-backed Heron (aka Striated Heron. Very like, or maybe even the same species as, the Green Heron.)*
- Yellow-crowned Night-Heron (Herman did not duck into the Mangroves with Eva and Michael so he missed it.)
- Boat-billed Heron *
- Black Vulture* (aka "Panamanian condor")
- Turkey Vulture*
- King Vulture
- Osprey*
- Gray-headed Kite*
- Hook-billed Kite
- American Swallow-tailed Kite*
- Snail Kite*
- Double-toothed Kite*
- Plumbeous Kite
- White Hawk
- Common Black Hawk (I had no sooner expressed surprise that there was one
on each of two successive telephone poles—I thought they had territories--
when one flew at the other and there was a flutter of feathers.
For a second I thought he was attacking the intruder but then the penny dropped.
Gonzalo said, "Now you know why they were so close.")
- Roadside Hawk
- Swainson’s Hawk
- Zone-tailed Hawk
- Black Hawk-Eagle (Herman only)
- Yellow-headed Caracara
- Laughing Falcon h
- Bat Falcon
- Gray-headed Chachalaca*
- Crested Guan*
- White-throated Crake*
- Gray-necked Wood-Rail (I love this bird. We saw several in the same place, but I was equally happy to hear them.
In Belize I saw this bird but did not hear it. It was one of the few bird calls that really stood out from my Belize
tape. Herman characterized it as "tick tock".)
- Purple Galinule
- Common Moorhen
- Southern Lapwing *
- Watled Jacana*
- Solitary Sandpiper
- Rock Pigeon
- Pale Vented Pigeon*
- Short-billed Pigeon
- Ruddy Ground Dove*
- White-tipped Dove
- Orange-chinned Parakeet*
- Brown-hooded Parrot
- Blue-headed Parrot*
- Red-lored Amazon*
- Mealy Amazon*
- Mangrove Cuckoo* (Herman missed it)
- Squirrel Cuckoo
- Greater Ani
- Smooth-billed Ani*
- Tropical Screech Owl h
- Crested Owl h
- Spectacled Owl*
- Mottled Owl h
- Black-and-White Owl h
- Pauraque (Every morning that we drove away from the lodge before dawn we flushed at least one.)
- White-collared Swift
- Long-tailed Hermit*
- Little Hermit
- White-necked Jacobin*
- Black-throated Mango
- Violet-crowned Woodnymph*
- Sapphire-throated Hummingbird
- Blue-chested Hummingbird*
- Rufous-tailed Hummingbird*
- White-taled Trogon*
- Violaceous Trogon h
- Black-throated Trogon*
- Slatey-tailed Trogon*
- Blue-crowned Motmot*
- Rufous Motmot
- Broad-billed Motmot*
- Ringed Kingfisher*
- Green Kingfisher*
- Pied Puffbird*
- White-whiskered Puffbird
- Great Jacamar
- Spot-crowned Barbet
- Collared Aracari*
- Keel-billed Toucan*
- Chestnut-mandibled Toucan
- Black-cheeked Woodpecker*
- Red-crowned Woodpecker h
- Lineated Woodpecker*
- Crimson-crested Woodpecker
- Plain Xenops
- Plain-brown Woodcreeper* (aka Cocoa Woodpecker)
- Wedge-billed Woodcreeper* (Herman missed this one, because he did not walk to the swimming hole with Eva and Michael)
- Buff-throated Woodcreeper*
- Great Antshrike
- Barred Antshrike
- Slaty Antshrike
- Streak-crowned antvireo h (? I question it because we were south of its range)
- Spot-crowned Antvireo
- Checker-throated Antwren
- Dot-winged Antwren
- Dusky Antbird
- White-bellied antbird
- Chestnut-backed antbird
- Bi-colored Antbird h
- Spectacled Antpitta h
- Yellow-bellied Elaenia
- Lesser Elaenia
- Ochre-bellied Flycatcher
- Common Tody-flycatcher (nesting)
- Ruddy-tailed Flycatcher (Herman saw it. Eva missed it.)
- Long-tailed Tyrant*
- Dusky-capped flycatcher
- Panama Flycatcher*
- Great-crested flycatcher h
- Great Kiskadee
- Boat-billed Flycatcher
- Rusty-margined Flycatcher
- Social Flycatcher
- Gray-capped Flycatcher*
- Streaked Flycatcher*
- Tropical Kingbird*
- Fork-tailed Flycatcher (Herman, at Madden Dam. Eva had wandered off.)
- Masked Tityra*
- Blue Cotinga*
- Purple-throated Fruitcrow*
- Golden-collared Manakin*
- Blue-Crowned Manakin*
- Reed-capped Manakin*
- Gray-breasted Martin*
- Blue-and-White Swallow*
- Black-chested Jay
- Black-bellied Wren
- Bay Wren
- House Wren
- Southern Nightinggale-Wren
- Tropical Gnatcatcher
- Clay-colored Thrush*
- Tropical Mockingbird
- Red-eyed Vireo h
- Tennessee Warbler
- Prothonotary Warbler
- Northern Waterthrush
- Bananaquit*
- Plain-colored Tanager
- Golden-hooded Tanager*
- Blue Dacnis
- Green Honeycreeper
- Red-legged Honeycreeper*
- Yellow-crowned Euphonia
- Blue-gray Tanager*
- Palm Tanager*
- Gray-headed Tanager
- White-shouldered Tanager*
- Red-throated Ant-Tanager*
- Summer Tanager*
- Crimson-backed Tanager*
- Flame-rumped Tanager
- Rosy Thrush-Tanager
- Buff-throated Saltator
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak*
- Blue-black Grosbeak
- Black-striped Sparrow*
- Variable seedeater
- Yellow-bellied Seedeater*
- Lesser Seed-Finch*
- Red-breasted Blackbird
- Great-tailed Grackle
- Shiny Cowbird
- Yellow-backed Oriole*
- Baltimore Oriole*
- Yellow-rumped Cacique*
- Crested Oropendula*
- Chestnut-headed Oropendula*
- House Sparrow
We jointly "got" 178 species of birds, of which 3 were questionable,and 10 were just heard.
Of the 168 seen by Eva and/or Herman, Eva saw 165. She photographed 80, or 48% of the avian species she saw.
Other animals
1.turtles*
2.White capuchin monkeys*
3.gecko*
4.various lizards*
5.various frogs*
6. Capybara*
7. Three-toed sloth*
8. Northern Tamandua*
9. butterflies*
10. fly*
11. orange tick-like bug*
12. leaf-footed bug*
13. grasshopper*
14. Preying mantis*
15. pair of well-camouflaged bugs*
16. Coatimundi
17. Agouti
Plants
1. orchid*
2. various flowers*
3. tanslucent seed pods*
4. labelled trees*
5. Ficus*
6. unidentified fabulous trees*
7. Giant mushroom*
8. hot lips*
9. Passion flower*
Birding Panama February 2005
Panamanian animals other than birds
Panamanian flowers and other miscellany from our trip
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