Birds found during
FONT Birding Tours
in
Panama
in March & August of 2004
List compiled by Armas Hill
Codes:
1: March 22-30, 2004
in the Panama Canal Basin (cb)
including the area of Gamboa
and in the western province of Chiriqui
in the Chiriqui highlands (ch)
& in nearby lowlands near the Pacific (cl).
Also, Panama City, along the Pacific coast (pc)
2: August 21-28, 2004
in the Panama Canal Basin (cb)
including the area of Gamboa
and Barro Colorado Island (bc)
Also in hills near the Caribbean (hc), at Sierra
Llorona
& the nearby Caribbean coast (cc).
Also, north of the canal on the Caribbean side (nc)
(Escobal & Achiote Roads)
& in Panama City, along the Pacific coast
(pc)
(t): a globally threatened or rare
species, designated by Birdlife International.
(t1): critical (t2): endangered (t3): vulnerable
(nt): a near-threatened species globally.
(PNr): rare in Panama
(PNi): introduced in Panama
(h): heard only
Links:
Cumulative
Lists of Birds during our Panama Tours
List of Central American Mammals & Some Other Wildlife
List of Selected Central American Butterflies
Upcoming
Panama Birding Tours
Bird-List:
- Great Tinamou - 1:cb(h) 2:cb,bc,hc(h)
- Little Tinamou - 1:cb(h) 2:cb(h)
- Pied-billed Grebe - 1:cl
- Least Grebe - 1:cl
- Brown Pelican - 1:cb,cl,pc
2:cb,bc,cc,pc
- Blue-footed Booby - 2:pc
- Brown Booby - 2:pc
- Neotropic Cormorant - 1:pc
2:cb,bc,cc,pc
- Anhinga - 1:cb,cl 2:cb
- Magnificent Frigatebird - 1:cb,cl,pc
2:cb,cc,pc
- Bare-throated Tiger-Heron - 1:cl
- Black-crowned Night-Heron - 2:pc
- Yellow-crowned Night-Heron - 1:pc
2:pc
- Boat-billed Heron - 2:cb
- Cattle Egret - 1:cb,ch,cl,pc 2:cb,pc
- Green Heron - 1: cb,cl 2:cb,cc
- Striated Heron - 1:cb 2:cb
- Little Blue Heron - 1:cb,cl,pc 2:cb,cc,pc
- Tricolored Heron - 1:pc 2:pc
- Snowy Egret - 1:pc 2:cb,pc
- Great Egret - 1:cb,cl,pc 2:cb,pc
- Great Blue Heron - 1:cb,cl,pc
- Cocoi Heron - 2:pc (a South American
species at the north end of its range)
- Wood Stork - 1:cl
- White Ibis - 1:pc 2:pc
- Black-bellied Whistling-Duck - 1:cb 2:cb
- Turkey Vulture - 1:cb,ch,cl,pc 2:cb,hc,nc,pc
- American Black Vulture -
1:cb,ch.cl,pc 2:cb,hc,nc,pc
- Osprey - 2:cb,pc
- Gray-headed Kite - 2:cb
- Swallow-tailed Kite - 2:cb,bc,pc
- Plumbeous Kite - 1:cb 2:cb
- White-tailed Kite - 1:ch
- Double-toothed Kite - 1:cb 2:cb
- Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1:ch
- Semiplumbeous Hawk (nt) - 1:cb 2:cb
- White Hawk - 2:cb
- Common Black
Hawk - 2:pc
- Great Black Hawk - 2:cb
- Gray (-lined) Hawk - 1:cb,cl 2:cb
- Broad-winged Hawk - 1:ch,cl
- Swainson's Hawk - 1:cl
- Short-tailed Hawk - 1:ch 2:cb,hc
- White-tailed Hawk - 1:cl
- Red-tailed Hawk - 1:ch
- Northern Crested Caracara - 1:cl 2:cb
- Yellow-headed Caracara - 1:cl,ch 2:cb,nc
- Laughing Falcon - 1:cb(h)
- Bat Falcon - 2:pc
- American Kestrel - 2:cb,cc
- Peregrine Falcon - 1:cl,pc
- Gray-headed Chachalaca - 1:cb 2:cb
- Crested Guan - 2:bc
- Gray-necked Wood-Rail - 1:cb 2:cb,cc
- White-throated Rail/Crake - 1:cb(h) 2:cb(h)
- Common Gallinule (or Moorhen) - 1:cb,cl 2:cb
- Purple Gallinule - 1:cb,cl 2:cb
- Limpkin - 2:cb
- Wattled Jacana - 1:cb 2:cb,pc
- Northern Jacana - 1:cl
- Black-necked Stilt - 2:pc
- Southern Lapwing - 1:cb,cl 2:cb,pc
- Black-bellied Plover - 1:pc 2:pc
- Collared Plover - 2:pc
- Wilson's (or Thick-billed Plover) - 2:pc
- Semipalmated Plover - 1:pc 2:pc
- Whimbrel - 1:pc 2:cc,pc
- Long-billed Curlew (nt) (PNr) - 2:pc
- Marbled Godwit - 2:pc
- Willet - 1:pc 2:cc,pc
- Greater Yellowlegs - 1:cl,pc 2:cc
- Spotted Sandpiper - 1:cb,pc 2:cc,pc
- Ruddy Turnstone - 1:pc 2:pc
- Surfbird - 2:pc
- Red Knot - 1:pc
- Sanderling - 1:cl
- Semipalmated Sandpiper - 1:pc 2:pc
- Western Sandpiper - 1:pc 2:pc
- Least Sandpiper - 2:pc
- White-rumped Sandpiper - 2:pc
- Short-billed Dowitcher - 1:pc 2:cc,pc
- Laughing Gull - 1:cb,pc 2:cc,pc
- Franklin's Gull - 2:cb,pc
- (American) Herring Gull - 1:pc
- Lesser Black-backed Gull (PNr) - 2:cc
- Ring-billed Gull - 1:cb
- Gull-billed Tern - 2:pc
- Common Tern - 1:pc
- Forster's Tern - 1:cb
- Royal Tern - 1:cl,pc
- Feral Pigeon (PNi) - 1:pc 2:cc,pc
- Band-tailed Pigeon - 1:ch
- Pale-vented Pigeon - 1:cb,cl 2:cb,bc,nc
- Mourning Dove - 1:cl
- Ruddy Ground-Dove - 1:cb,cl,pc 2:cb,cc,pc
- White-tipped (formerly White-fronted) Dove -
1:cb,ch,cl 2:cb,cc,hc,pc
- Gray-chested Dove - 2:bc
- Sulphur-winged Parakeet - 1:ch
- Veragua Parakeet (has been considered part
of Brown-throated Parakeet) - 1:cl
- Orange-chinned/Tovi Parakeet -
1:cb,cl,pc 2:cb,pc
- Brown-hooded Parrot - 2:cc,hc
- Blue-headed Parrot - 2:cb,hc,nc
- Red-lored Amazon/Parrot - 1:cb 2:cb,hc
- Yellow-crowned Amazon/Parrot - 1:cl
- Mealy Amazon/Parrot - 2:cb,hc,nc
- Squirrel Cuckoo - 2:cb,nc
- Smooth-billed Ani - 1:cb,cl 2:cb,cc.nc,pc
- Groove-billed Ani - 1:ch
- Greater Ani - 1:cb 2:cb,bc,nc
- Tropical Screech-Owl - 2:cb(h)
- Crested Owl - 2:hc(h)
- Spectacled Owl - 2:nc (adult & juvenile
seen in trees during the day)
- Mottled Owl - 2:hc(h)
- Black-and-white Owl - 2:hc
- Short-tailed (or Semicollared) Nighthawk -
hc
- Common Nighthawk - 1:cl,pc
- Lesser Nighthawk - 1:cl
- Pauraque - 1:cb 2:cb,hc
- White-collared Swift - 2:cb
- Vaux's (or Dusky-backed) Swift - 2:nc
- Band-rumped Swift
- 1:cb 2:cb
- Short-tailed Swift - 2:cb
- Lesser Swallow-tailed Swift - 1:cb 2:cb
- Western Long-tailed (or Long-billed) Hermit
- 1:cb 2:hc
- Stripe-throated (formerly Little) Hermit -
2:cb
- Scaly-breasted Hummingbird - 2:nc
- Violet Sabrewing - 1:ch
- White-necked Jacobin - 2:cb,hc
- Montane (has been part of Green) Violetear
- 1:ch
- Violet-headed Hummingbird - 1:ch 2:nc
- Garden (has been part of Fork-tailed) Emerald
- 1:ch 2:cb,hc,nc
- Crowned Woodnymph - 2:cb,hc,nc
- Violet-bellied Hummingbird - 2:cb
- Sapphire-throated Hummingbird - 2:bc
- Blue-chested Hummingbird - 1:cb 2:hc
- Beryl-crowned (or Charming) Hummingbird -
1:ch
- Snowy-bellied Hummingbird - 1:cb,ch 2:cb
- Rufous-tailed Hummingbird - 1:cb 2:cb,hc
- Stripe-tailed Hummingbird - 1:ch
- White-vented Plumeleteer - 2:cb
- Purple-crowned Fairy - 2:cb,hc
- Long-billed Starthroat - 1:ch
- Magenta-throated Woodstar - 1:ch
- Scintillant Hummingbird - 1:ch
- Resplendent Quetzal (nt) - 1:ch
- Slaty-tailed (or Massena) Trogon -
1:cb 2:cb,hc
- Collared Trogon - 1:ch
- Black-throated Trogon - 2:hc
- Western White-tailed Trogon - 2:cb
- Northern Violaceous Trogon - 1:cb 2:cb,bc,nc
- Ringed Kingfisher - 1:cl 2:cb,bc,cc
- Amazon Kingfisher - 2:cb
- American Pygmy Kingfisher - 2:cb
- Broad-billed Motmot - 1:cb
- Rufous Motmot - 2:hc
- Blue-crowned Motmot - 1:cb,ch,cl 2:cb
- Pied Puffbird - 2:hc
- White-whiskered Puffbird/Softwing - 2:cb,nc
- Spot-crowned Barbet - 2:nc
- Prong-billed Barbet - 1:ch
- Blue-throated (has been considered part of
Emerald) Toucanet - 1:ch
- Collared Aracari - 1:cb 2:cb,hc,nc
- Keel-billed Toucan - 1:cb 2:cb,bc,nc
- Chestnut-mandibled (or Swainson's)
Toucan - 1:cb 2:cb,bc,hc
- Black-cheeked Woodpecker - 2:cb,hc,nc
- Red-crowned Woodpecker -
1:cb,ch,cl,pc 2:cb,bc,nc
- Hairy Woodpecker - 1:ch
- Cinnamon Woodpecker - 1:cb 2:cb
- Lineated Woodpecker - 1:cl
- Crimson-crested Woodpecker - 2:cb,bc,nc
- Plain-brown Woodcreeper - 2:cb,nc
- Long-tailed Woodcreeper - 2:cb
- Wedge-billed Woodcreeper - 2:hc
- Cocoa (formerly Buff-throated) Woodcreeper
- 1:cb 2:cb,hc
- Buff-throated Foliage-gleaner/Automolus -
1:cb 2:cb
- Plain Xenops - 1:cb 2:cb,nc
- Great Antshrike - 1:cb
- Barred Antshrike - 1:cb 2:cb
- Western Slaty-Antshrike - 1:cb 2:cb,bc,hc,nc
- Russet Antshrike - 1:cb
- Spot-crowned Antvireo - 2:cb,hc
- Griscom's Antwren (formerly part of Pygmy
Antwren of South America) - 1:cb
- Checker-throated Antwren - 1:cb 2:bc
- White-flanked Antwren - 2:cb
- Dot-winged Antwren - 1:cb 2:cb,bc
- Dusky Antbird - 1:cb 2:bc
- White-bellied Antbird - 1:cb
- Chestnut-backed Antbird - 2:bc,hc
- Bicolored Antbird - 2:bc
- Spotted Antbird - 1:cb 2:bc
- Black-faced Antthrush - 1:cb 2:cb
- Silvery-fronted Tapaculo - 1:ch(h)
- Cinnamon Becard - 1:cb 2:cb,nc
- White-winged Becard - 1:cb
- Masked Tityra - 1:cb 2:cb,bc,nc
- Blue (or Natterer's) Cotinga - 2:hc,nc
- Purple-throated Fruitcrow - 2: cb
- Three-wattled Bellbird - 1:ch
- Red-capped Manakin - 1:cb 2:bc,hc,nc
- Blue-crowned Manakin - 2:hc
- Golden-collared Manakin - 1:cb 2:cb,bc
- Black Phoebe - 1:ch
- Scissor-tailed Flycatcher - 1:cl
- Fork-tailed Flycatcher - 1:cb,cl,pc 2:cb,pc
- Eastern Kingbird - 1:cb 2:cc
- Tropical Kingbird - 1:cb,ch,cl,pc 2:cb,bc,cc,nc,pc
- Gray Kingbird - 2:cc
- Long-tailed Tyrant - 2:nc
- Piratic Flycatcher - 1:cb,cl
- Bright-rumped Attila - 1:cb 2:pc
- Streaked Flycatcher - 1:cb.cl 2:cb,nc
- Rusty-margined Flycatcher - 2:cb,bc
- Social Flycatcher - 1:cb,cl,pc 2:cb,bc,cc,nc
- Boat-billed Flycatcher - 1:ch
- Great Kiskadee - 1:cb,cl 2:cb,bc,cc,pc
- Lesser Kiskadee - 1:cb 2:cb
- Rufous Mourner - 2:cb
- Great Crested Flycatcher - 1:cb
- Panama Flycatcher - 2:cb
- Dusky-capped Flycatcher - 1:cb
- (Western) Sirystes - 1:cb
- Tropical Pewee - 1:cb 2:cb
- Dark Pewee - 1:ch
- Western Wood-Pewee - 1:ch
- Acadian Flycatcher - 2:cb
- Yellowish Flycatcher - 1:ch
- Northern/Common Tufted Flycatcher - 1:ch
- Black-tailed Flycatcher - 1:cb
- Sulphur-rumped Flycatcher - 2:cb
- Bran-colored Flycatcher - 1:ch
- Ruddy-tailed Flycatcher - 1:cb
2:cb,bc
- Yellow-margined Flatbill/Flycatcher - 2:cb
- Brownish Twistwing/Flycatcher - 1:cb 2:cb,bc
- Black-headed Tody-Flycatcher - 2:nc
- Common Tody-Flycatcher - 1:cb,cl 2:cb,bc,cc
- Slate-headed Tody-Flycatcher - 2:pc
- Pale-eyed Pygmy-Tyrant - 1:cb
- Yellow Tyrannulet - 1:cb 2:cb
- Yellow-green Tyrannulet - 1:cb 2:cb
- Yellow-bellied Elaenia - 1:cb,ch,cl 2:cb,hc
- Mountain Elaenia - 1:ch
- Forest Elaenia - 1cb
- Northern Scrub-Flycatcher - 1:cb
- Southern Beardless Tyrannulet -
1:cb,ch 2:cb
- Mistletoe (formerly Paltry) Tyrannulet -
1:ch,cl
- Yellow-crowned Tyrannulat - 2:bc
- Ochre-bellied Flycatcher - 2:bc
- Gray-breasted Martin - 1:cb,cl,pc 2:cb,bc,cc,pc
- Purple Martin - 2:hc
- Blue-and-white Swallow - 1:ch 2:hc
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 1:cb,cl,pc
- Southern Rough-winged Swallow -
1:cb,pc 2:cb,bc,cc,pc
- Barn Swallow - 1:cl 2:cb,bc,hc,cc,pc
- Mangrove Swallow - 1:cb,pc 2:cb,bc
- Black-chested Jay - 2:cb,nc
- White-headed Wren - 2:nc
- Plain Wren - 1:cb,ch,cl 2:cb,nc
- Buff-breasted Wren - 1:cb 2:cb
- Bay Wren - 2:nc
- Rufous-breasted Wren - 1:ch
- Black-bellied Wren - 1:cb
- (Southern) House Wren - 1:cb,ch,cl,pc
2:cb,hc,pc
- White-breasted Wood-Wren - 1:cb 2:cb
- Gray-breasted Wood-Wren - 1:ch
- "Panama Nightingale-Wren" - 2:cb
(has been called Whistling (Nightingale) Wren, or Scaly-breasted Wren;
closely related to, maybe conspecific with Southern Nightingale-Wren)
- Song Wren - 1:cb 2:cb
- Black-faced Solitaire - 1:ch
- Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush - 1:ch
- Swainson's Thrush - 1:ch
- Mountain Thrush/Robin - 1:ch
- Clay-colored Thrush/Robin -
1:cb,ch,cl,pc 2:cb,cc,hc
- White-throated Robin - 1:ch
- Tropical Mockingbird - 1:cb,pc 2:cb,cc
- Tropical Gnatcatcher - 2:cb,nc
- Green Shrike-Vireo - 1:cb
- Yellow-throated Vireo - 1:ch
- Red-eyed Vireo - 2:cc
- Yellow-green Vireo - 1:cb,ch 2:hc
- Brown-capped Vireo - 1:ch
- Lesser Greenlet - 1:cb 2:cb,bc,hc
- Golden-fronted Greenlet - 2:cc
- Black-and-white Warbler - 1:cb,ch
- Golden-winged Warbler - 1:ch
- Prothonotary Warbler - 2:cc
- Tennessee Warbler - 1:cb,ch
- Flame-throated Warbler - 1:ch
- Yellow Warbler - 1:cb,cl 2:cc
- Mangrove Warbler (has been part of Yellow
Warbler) - 2:cc
- Black-throated Green Warbler - 1:ch
- Blackburnian Warbler - 1:ch
- Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1:cb
- Northern Waterthrush - 1:cb
- Wilson's Warbler - 1:ch
- Slate-throated Redstart/Whitestart - 1:ch
- Collared Redstart - 1:ch
- Golden-crowned Warbler -
1:ch
- Chestnut-capped Warbler - 1:cb 2:cb
- Chestnut-headed Oropendola - 1:cb 2:cb,nc
- (Western) Yellow-rumped Cacique -
1:cb
- Scarlet-rumped Cacique - 1:cb 2:cb,nc
- Yellow-billed Cacique - 1:cb 2:cb
- Yellow-backed Oriole - 2:cb,nc
- Yellow-tailed Oriole - 1:cb 2:cb
- Baltimore Oriole - 1:cb,ch
- Orchard Oriole - 1:cb 2:cb
- Eastern Meadowlark - 1:ch,cl 2:nc,pc
- Red-breasted Blackbird - 1:cl 2:nc,pc
- Great-tailed Grackle - 1:cb,ch,cl,pc 2:cb,cc,pc
- Bronzed (or Red-eyed) Cowbird - 1:ch
- Bananaquit - 1:cl
- Blue Dacnis - 1:cb 2:cb,bc,hc,nc
- Scarlet-thighed Dacnis - 1:ch
- Red-legged Honeycreeper - 1:cb,ch,cl 2:bc
- Shining Honeycreeper - 2:cb,bc
- Green Honeycreeper - 2:cb,bc,hc,nc
- Slaty Flower-piercer - 1:ch
- Common Bush Tanager - 1:ch
- Gray-headed Tanager - 1:cb
- Sulphur-rumped Tanager - 2:hc
- White-shouldered Tanager - 1:cb 2:cb,bc,nc
- Tawny-crested Tanager - 2:hc
- White-lined Tanager - 2:cb
- Red-throated Ant-Tanager - 1:cb 2:cb
- Flame-colored (or Streak-backed) Tanager -
1:ch
- White-winged Tanager - 1:ch
- Crimson-backed Tanager - 1:cb 2:cb,nc
- Cherrie's (formerly part of Scarlet-rumped) Tanager
- 1:ch
- Lemon-rumped Tanager - 1:cb 2:cb
- Blue-gray Tanager - 1:cb,ch,cl,pc 2:cb,bc,hc,nc
- Palm Tanager - 1:cb,ch 2:cb,bc,hc,nc
- Yellow-crowned Euphonia - 2:cb,hc,nc
- Thick-billed Euphonia - 1:cb,ch
- Elegant (or Blue-hooded) Euphonia - 1:ch
- Fulvous-vented Euphonia - 2:hc
- Spangle-cheeked Tanager - 1:ch
- Plain-colored Tanager - 2:cb,hc,nc,pc
- Silver-throated Tanager - 1:ch
- Golden-hooded Tanager - 1:cb 2:cb,hc,nc
- Black-throated Saltator - 2:cb
- Buff-throated Saltator - 1:cb,ch
- Streaked Saltator - 1:cb
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1:ch
- Blue-black Grosbeak - 2:cb,hc
- Yellow-faced Grassquit - 1:ch 2:hc
- Variable Seedeater - 1:cb 2:cb,nc
- White-collared Seedeater - 1:cl
- Yellow-bellied Seedeater - 1:cb 2:cb
- Ruddy-breasted Seedeater - 1:cb 2:cb
- Thick-billed (or Lesser) Seed-Finch -
1:cb 2:cb
- Blue-black Grassquit - 1:cl 2:cb
- Saffron (Yellow-) Finch - 2:pc
- Grassland Yellow-Finch - 2:cb
- Yellow-throated Brush-Finch - 1:ch
- Black-striped Sparrow - 1:cb 2:cb
- Rufous-collared Sparrow - 1:ch
- House Sparrow (PNi) - 1:cl 2:cc
Mammals & Some Other Wildlife during FONT Tours
in Panama 2004
Mantled Howler Monkey - 1, 2
White-faced Capuchin (Monkey) - 1
Central American Spider Monkey - 1
Geoffrey's Tamarin - 2
Hoffmann's Two-toed Sloth - 1
Northern Tamandua (or Banded Anteater) - 1
Collared Peccary - 1
Northern Raccoon - 1
Central American Agouti - 1, 2
White-nosed Coati - 1, 2
Variegated Squirrel - 1. 2
Red-tailed Squirrel - 1. 2
Tropical Cottontail Rabbit - 1
rat (sp.) - 1
Forest Spiny Pocket Mouse - 2
Long-nosed Bat - 1
Black Myotis - 1
bats (sp.) - 1, 2
Spectacled Caiman - 1, 2
Iguana - 1
Basilisk - 1, 2
Poison Dart Frogs (red; green & black) - 1
Morpho Butterflies - 1, 2
Owl Butterfly - 1
other butterflies - 2 (in Butterflies of Central America list, those marked
"PN")
Leaf-cutter & other forest ants - 1, 2
fresh water turtles - 1
