At 6 a.m. we boarded a mini bus with a very knowledgeable guide and headed to Parque Nacional Soberania which runs along the Panama Canal and the Pipeline Road, an unpaved track that goes for 17 kilometers through lush jungle.
Our first stop was a wetland known as the Ammo Dump, a leftover from WW2. It's now a thriving wetland with lots of birds.
Our first sighting was a Rufescent Tiger Heron sticking out of the green like a periscope.
And the sights in this open habitat just kept coming...
Muscovy Duck, preening.
Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture flyover, a rare sight in this part of Panama.
Two Purple Gallinule walking on top of the water vegetation.
Southern Rough-winged Swallows in a not so neat row on a power line.
Yellow-crowned Tyrannulet.
Thick-billed Seed Finch (female).
The wetland was an excellent preview of coming attractions. We walked to the Pipeline Road up a small rise into jungle and some open land.
Here are most of what we saw on this amazing road...
Blue Dacnis.
Golden-collared Manakin (female).
Greater Ani, noisy, crow like birds.
Red-capped Manakin.
Red-throated Ant Tanager.
Rufous Motmot. That tail!
Social Flycatcher being social sharing a branch.
White-necked Puffbird.
Buff-throated Saltator.
Cinnamon Woodpecker.
Fasciated Ant-shrike.
Blue Dacnis (female).
Golden-hooded Tanager. Those colors!
Plain-colored Tanager with insect.
Squirrel Cuckoo.
While birding a group of White-faced Capuchin scrambled up into the tree tops, knocking dead branches to the ground.
And a Two-toed Sloth hung from a tree slowly observing the scene below.
A truly magical place with an incredibly lush ecosystem. It was honor to observe it for several hours.
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