10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2019

8%: Brazil, Panama. Although it has a few more birds than Costa Rica (including reliable Harpy Eagles ) and some great lodges, in ecotourism terms, Panama seem to be Costa Rica’s “little brother” (there’s a hidden message to its tourism board). 4%: Mexico, West Papua (Indonesia), New Zealand, South Africa, Kenya. 17%: Ecuador, Peru.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2019

We have several quail-dove species in Costa Rica, this one is only found in cloud forest here and in western Panama. This sprite made it onto the list because its the smallest bird in Costa Rica and is maybe easier here than in western Panama. In some spots, this amazing bird even visits feeders. Buff-fronted Quail-Dove. Volcano Junco.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2024

As a new birder, I had always been fascinated with the GUIANAN TROGON and while it is a shy bird, it is by no means a rare and difficult-to-find bird, except for me that is … My journey to find the GUIANAN TROGON began in the lush landscapes of my now-adopted home country of Panama, a birdwatcher’s paradise.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2022

The most recent additions have included edge-loving birds like the Crimson-backed Tanager , an expected species that was finally documented for the country within the past year, and Bare-faced Ibis , an aquatic edge species also recently documented for Panama.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2013

A typical Neotropical bird – a Royal Flycatcher caught on a scouting trip in Panama. As it turns out, there is a great system in Panama for studying the genetics of color. Two species, White- and Golden-, form a hybrid zone where their ranges meet in Bocas del Toro, Panama. Just look at that thing! candei ), Golden-collared ( M.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 26, 2014

Black-bellied Hummingbirds can only be found in Costa Rica and western Panama. Because, honestly, when am I going to get back to Costa Rica again or go to Panama? Also, it is fun to type or say Bananaquit. Bananaquit. Bananaquit. Which makes me very glad to have seen this species. These dudes are total jerks.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

It only lives in middle elevation habitats of southern Costa Rica and western Panama. The tiniest bird in Costa Rica is also limited to hedgerows and other edge habitats in middle elevations of Costa Rica and western Panama. White-tailed Emerald. In common with several emerald species, this one is also endemic to a small area.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2021

Its range extends as far as Nicaragua in Central America, where it is joined, in Costa Rica and Panama, by The Slaty Flowerpiercer. The Cinnamon-rumped Flowerpiercer is the only flower-piercing game in town if you live in North America. And yes, Mexico is part of North America, not Central or South America.)

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2022

A movement among bromelias, a hummingbird… it’s the Purple-throated Mountain-gem , Serge IDs it, a regional endemic that Costa Rica shares with neighbouring Nicaragua and Panama. Seeing the way this goes, I decided not to send her a photo of Serge. Okay, no more waiting, off to lunch in the Savegre River Valley we go… To be continued.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

Hope for a vagrant comes in the form of an Orange-breasted Falcon sighting from west-central Panama. Although those two avian stars still occur in Costa Rica and western Panama, their numbers are low, and they don’t have the benefit of living anywhere else. Hopefully, we can help them in time. … Extinction is forever.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Actively birding in Costa Rica as well as Nicaragua and Panama as well as the USA, Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Peru and Ecuador. Degree in Natural Resources Management, former part of Board of Directors for the Ornithological Association of Costa Rica, and involved with Bird Monitoring Projects and Sustainability Consulting.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 25, 2015

The authors argue that most major groups, including the sparrows, wood-warblers, blackbirds, and cardinals then diversified in North America and subsequently colonized South America in a series of overwater (before the Isthmus of Panama had formed) or overland dispersal events.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2016

Go birding in Costa Rica to get these avian examples of cuteness on the life list: Collared Redstart – cute and common in the highlands of Costa Rica and western Panama. Cute is cool, and especially when the bird is a lifer. Yeah, it’s just using you as a beater but you get rewarded with close looks and photos.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2015

The subspecies that occurs in Costa Rica is only found in middle-elevation forests in Costa Rica and Panama and lacks the white line behind the eye shown by South American birds. Buff-throated Foliage-gleaner that range from Carara National Park south to Panama. A Caribbean slope Buff-throated Foliage-gleaner.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2020

Panama 1004 Just slightly below the 1000 mark were Angola with 998 and Cameroon with 979 (followed by Australia and Nigeria, both with 970), and these contenders may join the club soon. That is where Ecuador, Uganda and especially Panama stand out as being manageably small, which may be another reason to focus on them.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2011

Above is a photo that I got with my Wingscapes BirdCam when I visited Canopy Lodge in Panama last year. Is it a convenience issue? One of my favorite things about Central America are the bird feeders. That’s a Chestnut-headed Oropendola eating at a banana feeder. Banana was all that was offered and it brought in a huge array of birds.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

And later, when I posted a picture of it on my Facebook page another birder shared an image of a similar bird taken in Panama. Interestingly, no one seems to know what is going on with these birds, whether the color is diet related or genetic, how often, exactly, that they occur, or much of anything.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2020

Eight occur only in South America, three spill over from there just into Panama, and one reaches from South America through much of Central America. Most have dark crests, and most are sexually dimorphic (males and females look different). There are 17 species of Becard. Two reach from South America all the way to southeastern Mexico.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2019

Panama Flycatchers and Streak-backed Orioles also fed at close range. Although the hoped for Mangrove Vireo failed to show, we had excellent close studies of Panama Flycatcher and Northern Scrub-Flycatcher. Other dry forest species made appearances, Stripe-headed Sparrows being especially common.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2024

Black-tailed Trogon ( Trogon melanurus) Mainly a species of the Amazonian lowlands (two other disjunct populations exist from central Panama to northern Colombia and in western Ecuador and northwestern Peru) they are heard more often than seen as they tend to remain well above the ground, favoring the forest canopy to subcanopy.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2017

The Black-and-white Phainoptila , Phainoptila melanoxantha from Costa Rica and Panama. Then there is the Long-tailed Silky-flycatcher , Ptilogonys caudatus , living in some of the high mountains of Costa Rica and Panama. The females are a dark, slate colored gray, with much more obvious white edges on the wing feathers.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Next to me was a copy of “Birds of Central America” with a somewhat longish subtitle “Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama” by Vallely and Dyer from 2018.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 12, 2019

Part of a series of coordinated radio telemetry arrays, this station is found between other MOTUS stations in Nicaragua and Panama that automatically log data from radio transmitters attached to Alder Flycatchers, Cerulean Warblers , and other species.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2020

I hope for more of those birds to appear and ride the wings of that hope for a safe end to this trying situation soon, for a time when we can watch birds together again whether that be Costa Rica, Panama, Spain, or Yunnan, China. The post Hoping for Spring Migrants in Costa Rica, 2020 appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Birds of Central America: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rican, and Panama , just published in October, is a field guide that was ten years in the making. Press, 1989); A Guide to the Birds to the Birds of Panama, with Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Honduras, 2nd ed. , It’s unique in two major ways.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2021

Panama Flycatcher. In Costa Rica, this former Clapper Rail is pretty local and only occurs in shorter, scrubby mangroves. Given the few areas where it is known to occur, I have to wonder how many actually live in Costa Rica? This Myiarchus is a bird of mangrove forests, at least in Costa Rica.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

This Rufous-vented Ground-Cuckoo was seen and captured on camera by Josh Beck in Panama, the most reliable place to connect with this rare species. I can’t say the same for the other especially tough cuckoo in Costa Rica, the one and only Rufous-vented Ground-Cuckoo (or RVG as I like to call it).

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2015

Stop at any bit of forest en route and you might see species like Flame-throated Warbler, Yellow-winged Vireo, Ruddy Treerunner , and other birds that only live in the high elevations of Costa Rica and western Panama. One of those is the lovely Long-tailed Silky-Flycatcher.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 10, 2015

The montane forests of Costa Rica and western Panama are home to at least 50 species of birds that live nowhere else except for one or two that also occur in northwestern Colombia. Nope, in addition to Costa Rica and western Panama, the good old R. At least that’s the case for Costa Rica.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

By morning, they are probably in Panama. They might also stop off in one or two places that lack birders before continuing on that same day or the next. If I listen to the pre-dawn sky in late September, I can probably pick up the faint bubbling whistle of a few Upland Sandpipers.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

The lower end of their territory is along the coastal areas of mainland Mexico down to Panama. The White-collared seedeaters have a relatively limited range, with a northern most range, that has them on a rare occasion, seen in the southern parts of Texas. In this case, I am going with the “Do” part.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 19, 2015

Those numbers are just guesses but that’s my bet given the amount of intact habitat, sightings, and territory size for these species in Panama. This is a Black-and-white from a remote site near the border with Panama. Black, and Ornate Hawk-Eagles are regular but the Black-and-white Hawk-Eagle is pretty rare.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2015

The Black-capped Flycatcher is an Empid restricted to high elevation habitats of Costa Rica and western Panama. In Costa Rica, the Mountain Elaenia is one of the most common species in semi-open highland areas. Even the local Empids are much easier than the migrants.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 24, 2017

I’m still recovering from several days of blisteringly good birding in Panama, including a jaunt down Old Gamboa Road. This legendary trail connected to Summit Ponds hosts all manner of Canal Zone specialties, including an abundance of hawks, kites, falcons, and owls.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2021

The same goes for Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras, and other places along their migration routes. Barn Swallows also fly with them and the Chimney Swifts seem to nearly match them in numbers. Yeah, I daresay those birds do pass through Costa Rica in the millions. For birds, there are no borders.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2022

This high elevation pewee only occurs in the mountains of Costa Rica and a smidgeon of western Panama. If you see a bird that looks like a richly colored pewee with shorter wings and a burry call, say hello to the Tropical Pewee. Ochraceous Pewee. Yes, a cool endemic pewee!

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2015

Quetzal is THE beloved, sacred bird of Guatemala and they do live there (and in southern Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama) BUT are more accessible in Costa Rica. Even the non-birders will love the scenery. Yes, the R. These people treat their guests like gold and are people I love to support. The front entrance of Myriam’s.

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