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the birds of gamboa resort hotel, panama on the morning of june 16, 2003
2003-06-18 - 12:39 a.m.
photo © 2003 by Roger Williams, all rights reserved
This page
is a list of the bird species I saw on the morning of
June 16 just puttering around the Gamboa Resort Hotel.
My trip list for my visit to Panama can be found
by clicking
right here, and a full trip report can
be found by clicking
right here.
It was a hot, humid morning, with brief bursts of rain. June is
part of the rainy season, called "winter" in Panama. I made
these observations by walking through the parking lot, down
behind the hotel, and along the Chagres River to the marina and slightly
beyond to a guardpost near the canal. When visiting Gamboa Resort,
don't be embarrassed to check out the powder puff trees in
the parking lot, as they attract many hummingbirds and other small
birds. I noticed the Mangrove Swallow perched on the bridge on
the drive out of the resort.
Magical Moments:
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A courting pair of Yellow-Headed Caracara, with the smaller male
especially "singing" in his wild, eerie, raptorish cry, while the
female snuggled up and "shivered" for food
- An explosion of Red-Lored Amazons, probably numbering in the
hundreds of birds, departing from their roosts and flying
over my head toward the mountains
- A Rufescent Tiger Heron which landed nearby on silent wings
as I approached the marina
- A Chestnut-Mandibled Toucan male calling proudly from a tree
near the parking lot, attracting the attention of a Keel-Billed Toucan,
who approached with the apparent intention of disputing the chestnut mandible's
claim, but who then changed his mind and tried to slip away unobserved when
he saw the huge size of this male
The List of Species:
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Brown Pelican
- Neotropical Cormorant
- Anhinga
- Rufescent Tiger Heron
- Great Egret
- Black-Crowned Night Heron
- Black Vulture
- Turkey Vulture
- Black-Bellied Whistling Duck
- Yellow-Headed Caracara
- Gray-Headed Chachalaca with young
- Purple Gallinule
- Common Moorhen
- Wattled Jacana
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Pale-Vented Pigeon
- White-Tipped Dove
- Gray Chested Dove
- Orange Chinned Parakeet
- Red Lored Amazon
- Sapphire Throated Hummingbird
- Rufous Tailed Hummingbird
- Keel-Billed Toucan
- Chestnut-Mandibled Toucan
- Cocoa or Buff-Throated Woodcreeper
- Yellow-Crowned Tyrannulet
- Common Tody-Flycatcher
- Black Headed Tody-Flycatcher
- Panama Flycatcher - adult with fledgling
- Lesser Kiskadee
- Gray-Capped Flycatcher
- Streaked Flycatcher
- Tropical Kingbird
- Scrub Greenlet
- Gray-Breasted Martin
- Mangrove Swallow
- Southern Rough-Winged Swallow
- Buff-Breasted Wren
- Plain Wren
- House Wren
- Clay-Colored Robin
- Tropical Mockingbird
- Crimson-Backed Tanager
- Blue-Gray Tanager
- Palm Tanager
- Red-Legged Honeycreeper, male
- Variable Seedeater
- Yellow-Bellied Seedeater
- Lesser (Thick-Billed) Finch
- Black-Headed Saltator
- Great-Tailed Grackle
- Bronzed Grackle
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