Birds & Other Wildlife
during FONT Birding and Nature Tours
in central & eastern
Panama
&
in southern Costa Rica & western Panama
in February 2006
List compiled by Armas Hill, leader of the tours
Photograph at right: a GREEN VIOLET-EAR
(Photo taken during this Feb 2006 tour in southern Costa Rica)
Codes:
PNc: in central Panama, in the Canal Basin, Feb 3-5
PNe: in eastern Panama, in Darien & eastern Panama province, Feb 6-9
CRc: in central Costa Rica, Feb 10-11 & 18
CRs: in southern Costa Rica, Feb 11-13 & 15-18
PNw: in western Panama, in the Chiriqui highlands & lowlands, Feb 14-15
(t): a globally threatened or rare
species, designated by Birdlife International.
(t1): critical (t2): endangered (t3): vulnerable
(nt): a near-threatened species globally.
(i): introduced species
(ePN): Panama endemic
(P&C): restricted to Panama & Colombia
(rPN): rare in Panama
(eCR): Costa Rican endemic
(neCR): Costa Rican near-endemic
(rCR): rare in Costa Rica
(h): heard only
Links:
Lists of
Birds in: Panama
Costa Rica
Lists of Central American: Mammals
Butterflies
& Moths
Upcoming
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Bird-List:
- Great Tinamou (h) - PNe,
CRs
- Little Tinamou (h) - PNe, CRs
- Pied-billed Grebe - PNw
- Least Grebe - PNw
- Brown Pelican - PNc, PNe, PNw,
CRs
- Neotropic Cormorant - PNc, PNe, PNw,
CRs
- Anhinga - PNe, PNw
- Magnificent Frigatebird - PNc,
PNe, PNw, CRs
- Cocoi Heron - PNc
- Great Blue Heron - PNc, PNe,
PNw, CRs
- Cattle Egret - PNc, PNe, PNw,
CRs
- Green Heron - PNc, PNe, PNw,
CRs
- Striated Heron - PNc, PNe
- Tricolored Heron - PNc, PNe,
CRs
- Little Blue Heron - PNc, PNe,
PNw, CRs
- Snowy Egret - PNc, PNe, PNw,
CRs
- Great Egret - PNc, PNe, PNw,
CRs
- Agami (or Chestnut-bellied) Heron -
PNe
- Capped Heron - PNe
- Black-crowned Night-Heron - PNw
- Yellow-crowned Night-Heron -
PNc
- Wood Stork - PNe, PNw, CRs
- White Ibis - PNc, PNe, PNw, CRs
- Black-bellied Whistling-Duck -
PNw, CRs
- Blue-winged Teal - PNw, CRs
- Masked Duck - CRs
- Turkey Vulture - PNc, PNe, PNw,
CRs
- Black Vulture - PNc, PNe, PNw,
CRs
- King Vulture - PNe, PNw, CRs
- Osprey - PNc, PNe, PNw, CRs
- Gray-headed Kite - PNe, CRs
- Swallow-tailed Kite - CRs
- Hook-billed Kite - PNe
- Pearl Kite - PNe
- White-tailed Kite - PNw, CRc,
CRs
- Snail Kite (rPN) - PNw
- Crane Hawk - PNe
- Bay-winged Hawk (rPN) -
PNe
- Black-chested (or Barred) Hawk
- CRs
- Plumbeous Hawk - PNc
- Mangrove (or Pacific) Black Hawk
- PNw
- Great Black Hawk - PNe, PNw
- Gray-lined Hawk - PNe
- Roadside Hawk - PNc, PNe, PNw,
CRs
- Broad-winged Hawk - CRs
- Short-tailed Hawk - PNe, CRs
- White-tailed Hawk - CRs
- Red-tailed Hawk - CRs
- Northern Crested Caracara - PNw,
CRs
- Yellow-headed Caracara - PNc,
PNe, PNw, CRs
- Red-throated Caracara - PNe
- Laughing Falcon (h) - CRs
- American Kestrel - PNe
- Bat Falcon - PNw, CRs
- Peregrine Falcon - PNw
- Gray-headed Chachalaca - PNe
- Crested Guan - CRs
- Crested Bobwhite - PNe
- Gray-necked Wood-Rail - PNc,
CRs(h)
- White-throated Crake (h) - PNc,
PNe, CRs
- Common Gallinule (or Moorhen) -
PNc, PNw, CRs
- Purple Gallinule - PNc, PNe,
PNw, CRs
- Sunbittern - CRs
- Northern Jacana - PNw, CRs
- Wattled Jacana - PNc, PNe
- American Oystercatcher - PNw
- Southern Lapwing (rCR) - PNc, PNe,
CRs
- Black-bellied Plover - PNc, PNw
- Killdeer - PNw
- Black-necked Stilt - PNc, PNw
- Willet - PNc, PNe, PNw, CRs
- Whimbrel - PNc, PNw
- Long-billed Curlew (rPN)
- PNc
- Greater Yellowlegs - PNc
- Lesser Yellowlegs - PNc
- Solitary Sandpiper - PNe
- Spotted Sandpiper - PNc, PNe,
PNw, CRs
- Ruddy Turnstone - PNw, CRs
- Sanderling - PNw
- Semipalmated Sandpiper - PNc
- Least Sandpiper - PNc
- Short-billed Dowitcher - PNc
- Laughing Gull - PNc, PNe, PNw,
CRs
- Ring-billed Gull (rPN) -
PNc
- Gull-billed Tern - PNc
- Royal Tern - PNw, CRs
- Sandwich Tern - PNc, PNw, CRs
- Black Skimmer - PNc
- Feral Pigeon (i) - PNc, PNe,
CRs
- Scaled Pigeon - CRs
- Band-tailed Pigeon - CRs
- Pale-vented Pigeon - PNc, PNe,
CRs
- Red-billed Pigeon - CRc
- Short-billed Pigeon - CRs
- White-winged Dove - CRc
- Inca Dove - CRc
- Plain-breasted Ground-Dove -
PNe
- Ruddy Ground-Dove - PNc, PNe,
PNw, CRs
- Blue Ground-Dove - PNe
- White-tipped Dove - PNc, PNe,
PNw, CRs
- Chiriqui (formerly Rufous-breasted) Quail-Dove
- CRs
- Scarlet Macaw - CRs
- Red-and-Green Macaw - PNe
- Crimson-fronted Parakeet - CRc,
CRs
- Veragua (has been part of Brown-throated) Parakeet
- PNw
- Sulphur-winged Parakeet - CRs
- Orange-chinned (or Tovi) Parakeet -
PNc, PNe, CRs
- Blue-headed Parrot - PNe, CRs
- White-crowned Parrot - CRs
- Red-lored Parrot - PNc, PNe,
PNw
- Mealy Parrot - PNe, CRs
- Squirrel Cuckoo - PNe, CRs
- Greater Ani - PNe
- Groove-billed Ani - PNw
- Smooth-billed Ani - PNc, PNe,
PNw, CRs
- Striped Cuckoo - PNe, CRs(h)
- Barn Owl - PNe
- Striped Owl - PNe
- Pauraque - PNe, PNw, CRs
- White-tailed Nightjar - PNw
- White-collared Swift - CRs
- Vaux's (or Dusky-backed) Swift -
PNw, CRs
- Band-rumped Swift - PNc, PNe
- Costa Rican (formerly Band-rumped)
Swift - CRs
- Short-tailed Swift - PNc, PNe
- Lesser Swallow-tailed Swift -
CRs
- Band-tailed Barbthroat - CRs
- Bronzy Hermit - CRs
- Western Long-tailed (or Long-billed)
Hermit - CRs
- Scaly-breasted (or Cuvier's)
Hummingbird - CRs
- Violet Sabrewing - PNw
- Brown Violetear - PNw
- Montane (has been part of Green) Violetear
- PNw, CRs
- Veraguan (has been part of Green-breasted) Mango
- PNw
- Black-throated Mango - PNe
- Garden (has been part of Fork-tailed)
Emerald - PNc, CRs
- Violet-crowned Woodnymph - PNc,
PNe
- Fiery-throated Hummingbird -
CRs
- Blue-throated Goldentail (or
Blue-throated Sapphire) - CRs
- Violet-bellied Hummingbird -
PNe
- Blue-chested Hummingbird - PNc
- Charming (or Beryl-crowned)
Hummingbird - CRs
- Snowy-bellied Hummingbird - PNe,
PNw, CRs
- Rufous-tailed Hummingbird - PNc,
CRs
- White-throated Mountain-gem -
PNw
- Gray-tailed Mountain-gem (neCR) -
CRs
- Green-crowned Brilliant - CRs
- Magnificent Hummingbird - PNw,
CRs
- Magenta-throated Woodstar - CRs
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird (rPN)
- PNw
- Scintillant Hummingbird - CRs
- Volcano Hummingbird - CRs
- Slaty-tailed (or Massena) Trogon (h)
- CRs
- Baird's Trogon (neCR) -
CRs
- Black-tailed Trogon - PNe
- Northern Violaceous Trogon -
PNc, PNe
- Ringed Kingfisher - PNe, PNw,
CRs
- Amazon Kingfisher - PNe, PNw,
CRs
- Green Kingfisher - CRs
- Green-and-Rufous Kingfisher -
PNe
- American Pygmy Kingfisher - PNe
- Blue-crowned Motmot - CRs
- White-necked Puffbird - CRs
- Pied Puffbird - PNe
- White-whiskered Puffbird - CRs
- Collared Aracari - PNe
- Keel-billed Toucan - PNc. PNe
- Chestnut-mandibled (or Swainson's)
Toucan - PNc, PNe, CRs
- Acorn Woodpecker - CRs
- Golden-naped Woodpecker (neCR) -
CRs
- Red-crowned Woodpecker - PNc,
PNe, PNw, CRs
- Hairy Woodpecker - CRs
- Golden-olive Woodpecker - CRs
- Golden-green Woodpecker - PNe
- Cinnamon Woodpecker - PNe
- Lineated Woodpecker - PNe, PNw,
CRs
- Pale-billed Woodpecker - CRs
- Olivaceous Woodcreeper - PNe,
CRs
- Wedge-billed Woodcreeper - CRs
- Black-banded Woodcreeper - CRs
- Cocoa (formerly Buff-throated) Woodcreeper
- PNc, CRs
- Black-striped Woodcreeper - CRs
- Streak-headed Woodcreeper - PNe,
CRs
- Red-faced Spinetail - PNw
- Double-banded Graytail - PNe
- Ruddy Treerunner - CRs
- Plain Xenops - PNe, CRs
- Fasciated Antshrike - PNc
- Barred Antshrike - PNc, PNw
- Black Antshrike (P&C)
- PNe
- Black-hooded Antshrike - CRs
- Russet Antshrike - CRs
- Dusky Antbird - CRs
- Cinnamon Becard - PNe
- One-colored Becard - PNe
- Rose-throated Becard - CRs
- Masked Tityra - CRs
- Black-crowned Tityra - CRs
- Lance-tailed Manakin - CRs
- Red-capped Manakin - PNw
- Golden-collared Manakin - PNc,
PNe
- Purple-throated Fruitcrow - PNe
- Three-wattled Bellbird - CRs
- Black Phoebe - PNe, PNw, CRs
- Pied Water-Tyrant - PNe
- Fork-tailed Flycatcher - PNe,
PNw, CRs
- Tropical Kingbird - PNc, PNe,
PNw, CRc, CRs
- Gray Kingbird - PNc
- Streaked Flycatcher - PNc, PNe
- Gray-capped Flycatcher - CRs
- Social Flycatcher - PNc, PNe,
PNw, CRs
- Great Kiskadee - PNc, PNe, PNw,
CRc, CRs
- Lesser Kiskadee - PNe
- Panama Flycatcher - PNe, PNw,
CRs
- Great Crested Flycatcher - PNe,
CRs
- Dark Pewee - CRs
- Northern/Common Tufted Flycatcher
- CRs
- Black-capped Flycatcher - CRs
- Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - PNw
- Willow Flycatcher - PNc, CRs
- Yellowish Flycatcher - PNw, CRs
- Yellow-olive Flycatcher - PNc
- Yellow-margined Flycatcher (or Flatbill)
- PNc, PNe
- Common Tody-Flycatcher - PNc,
CRs
- Northern Bentbill - CRs
- Scale-crested Pygmy-Tyrant (h)
- CRs
- Torrent Tyrannulet - CRs
- Yellow-bellied Elaenia - CRs
- Lesser Elaenia - CRs
- Mountain Elaenia - CRs
- Northern Scrub-Flycatcher - CRs
- Southern Beardless Tyrannulet -
CRs
- Paltry (or Mistletoe) Tyrannulet
- PNc
- Yellow-crowned Tyrannulet - CRs
- Brown-capped Tyrannulet - PNc,
PNe
- Yellow-throated Vireo - PNe, CRs
- Yellow-winged Vireo - CRs
- Yellow-green Vireo - PNc, CRs
- Scrub Greenlet - PNe
- Lesser Greenlet - PNc, CRs
- Gray-breasted Martin - PNc, PNe,
PNw, CRs
- Blue-and-white Swallow - PNw,
CRs
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow -
PNc
- Southern Rough-winged Swallow -
PNc, PNe, PNw, CRs
- Mangrove Swallow - PNc, PNe,
CRs
- Barn Swallow - PNw
- Cliff Swallow - PNw
- Black-chested Jay - PNe
- White-headed Wren - PNe
- Bay Wren (h) - PNe
- Riverside Wren - CRs
- Black-bellied Wren - PNc
- Buff-breasted Wren - PNc, PNe
- Plain Wren (h) - CRs
- (Southern) House Wren - PNc,
PNe, PNw, CRs
- Gray-breasted Wood-Wren - CRs
- Song Wren - PNc
- Black-faced Solitaire (h) - CRs
- Black-billed
Nightingale-Thrush - CRs
- Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush -
CRs
- Sooty Thrush/Robin - CRs
- Mountain Thrush/Robin - CRs
- Clay-colored Thrush/Robin - PNc,
PNw, CRc, CRs
- White-throated Thrush/Robin -
CRs
- Tropical Mockingbird - PNc, PNe
- Tropical Gnatcatcher - PNe, CRs
- Long-tailed Silky-Flycatcher -
CRs
- Black-and-yellow Silky-Flycatcher -
CRs
- Black-and-White Warbler - CRs
- Prothonotary Warbler - PNw, CRs
- Tennessee Warbler - PNc, PNe, PNw,
CRs
- Flame-throated Warbler - CRs
- Yellow Warbler - PNe, CRs
- Mangrove Warbler - PNw, CRs
- Magnolia Warbler - PNw, CRs
- Chestnut-sided Warbler - CRs
- Black-throated Green Warbler -
CRs
- Bay-breasted Warbler - PNe, CRs
- Northern Waterthrush - PNc, CRs
- Louisiana Waterthrush - CRs
- Wilson's Warbler - PNw, CRs
- Canada Warbler - CRs
- American Redstart - PNc, CRs
- Chiriqui Yellowthroat - CRs
- Mourning Warbler - CRs
- Collared Redstart - CRs
- Black-cheeked Warbler - CRs
- Zeledonia - CRs
- Chestnut-headed Oropendola -
PNc, PNe, CRs
- Black Oropendola (P&C)
- PNe
- (Western) Yellow-rumped Cacique -
PNc, PNe
- Yellow-billed Cacique - PNe,
CRs
- Orange-crowned Oriole - PNe
- Yellow-backed Oriole - PNe
- Yellow-tailed Oriole - PNe
- Baltimore Oriole - PNe, PNw,
CRs
- Orchard Oriole - PNc, PNe, PNw,
CRs
- Eastern Meadowlark - PNe, PNw
- Red-breasted Blackbird - PNe,
CRs
- Great-tailed Grackle - PNc, PNe,
PNw, CRc, CRs
- Bronzed (or Red-eyed) Cowbird -
PNw, CRs
- Bananaquit - PNe, CRs
- White-eared Conebill (P&C)
- PNe
- Blue Dacnis - PNc, PNe
- Scarlet-thighed Dacnis - CRs
- Red-legged Honeycreeper - PNc,
PNe, PNw, CRs
- Green Honeycreeper - CRs
- Slaty Flower-piercer - PNw, CRs
- Common Bush Tanager - PNw, CRs
- Sooty-capped Bush-Tanager - CRs
- White-shouldered Tanager - PNe
- Red-throated Ant-Tanager - PNc
- Black-cheeked Ant-Tanager (eCR)
- CRs
- Summer Tanager - CRs
- Western Tanager - CRs
- Crimson-backed Tanager - PNc, PNe
- Cherrie's (formerly Scarlet-rumped) Tanager
- CRs
- Lemon-rumped Tanager - PNc, PNe
- Blue-gray Tanager - PNc, PNe,
PNw, CRs
- Palm Tanager - PNc, PNe, PNw,
CRs
- Blue-and-Gold Tanager - CRs
- Yellow-crowned Euphonia - PNc,
PNe, PNw, CRs
- Thick-billed Euphonia - CRs
- Spot-crowned Euphonia - CRs
- Plain-colored Tanager - PNe
- Silver-throated Tanager - CRs
- Speckled Tanager - CRs
- Bay-headed Tanager - CRs
- Golden-hooded Tanager - PNe,
CRs
- Spangle-cheeked Tanager - CRs
- Buff-throated Saltator - CRs
- Northern Grayish Saltator - CRc
- Streaked Saltator - CRs
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak - CRs
- Blue-black Grosbeak - PNe, CRs
- Indigo Bunting - PNe
- Yellow-faced Grassquit - PNw,
CRs
- Variable Seedeater - PNc, PNe, PNw,
CRs
- White-collared Seedeater - PNw,
CRs
- Ruddy-breasted Seedeater - PNw,
CRs
- Thick-billed (or Lesser) Seed-Finch -
PNe, PNw, CRs
- Blue-black Grassquit - PNe, PNw,
CRs
- Saffron Finch (i) - PNc
- Peg-billed Finch - CRs
- Large-footed Finch - CRs
- Yellow-thighed Finch - CRs
- Orange-billed Sparrow - CRs
- Black-striped Sparrow - PNc,
CRs
- Rufous-collared Sparrow - PNw,
CRs
- Volcano Junco - CRs
- Lesser Goldfinch - CRs
- House Sparrow (i) - PNe
Mammals & Some Other Wildlife during the FONT tours
in Panama & Costa Rica in February 2006
Mantled Howler Monkey - PNw, CRs
White-faced Capuchin (Monkey) - CRs
Kinkajou - CRs
Variegated Squirrel - CRs
Red-tailed Squirrel - CRs
bats - CRs
"Talamanca Mouse" - CRs
Spectacled Caiman - PNc, CRs
American (or Morelet's) Crocodile - CRs
Green Iguana - PNw, CRs
Common Basilisk - PNe
Green Spiny Lizard - CRs
House Gecko (i) - CRs
Common Slider (turtle) - PNc
giant grasshopper - CRs
Morpho Butterflies - CRs
other butterflies - (in another list) - PN, CR
Leaf-cutter & other forest ants - PNc, CRs
