Endemism, Resilience, and the Glow-throated Hummingbird (Selasphorus ardens)
By Ezekiel S. Jakub of Conservación Panamá Panama is not a large country, in ...
Nature in Coronado, Panama
Are Humpback Whales Off the Endangered Species List? Not Quite!
Earlier this year the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) proposed the removal of two-thirds of the world’s humpback whale ...
Kevin Painter - Butterfly Photographer
Do you know what a Cassius Blue butterfly looks like, or where you could look to find it? Butterfly Photographer Kevin Painter does. It is a tiny light grey ...
Conservación Panamá Fights to Save Wild Cats
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The Christmas Bird Count: Old and New Traditions
****** CALLING ALL BIRDERS ************ Conservation Panama is doing a Bird Count here at the beaches. We need a minimum of 12 volunteers to join the count on Sunday Jan 18th. ...
Birding Panama’s Pipeline Road
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Backyard Birding: Nesting Season for Colonial Wading Birds
As the dry season comes to an end and we enter into an early rainy season, the nesting period for wading bird such as Herons ...
Sharing Panama with Wild Jaguars
Did you know that Panama is home to wild jaguars? Maybe you did, but likely you thought they only existed in the depths ...
Rarely Seen and Endangered Animals of Panama
As we well know and appreciate, Panama is home to a wide variety of wildlife. It's known as a bird-watching destination, and we've all ...
What To Do If Stung By A Scorpion
In Panama, scorpions are usually seen in the dry season. These creatures often turn up in a ...
Why is the Pacific Ocean Colder? And what does it mean?
The answer is upwelling. What is upwelling you ask? Upwelling is the movement of surface water due to northern winds and the resulting rise of cold, deep, ...
Panama's Newest Resident
A young Harpy Eagle named “Panama” will arrive on the isthmus on June 17th…provided she makes her American Airlines flight. “Panama” was born at the ...
Cormorant
The bird family Phalacrocoracidae is represented by some 40 species of cormorants and shags. Several different classifications of the family have been proposed recently, and the ...
Caracara
Caracaras are birds of prey in the family Falconidae. They are traditionally placed in the subfamily Polyborinae, but are sometimes considered part of their own ...
Barred Antshrike
The Barred Antshrike, Thamnophilus doliatus, is a passerine bird in the antbird family. It is found in the Neotropics fromTamaulipas, Mexico, through Central ...
Acadian Flycatcher
Adults have olive upperparts, darker on the wings and tail, with whitish underparts; they have a white eye ring, white wing bars and a wide bill. The breast is washed with olive. The upper part of the bill is dark; ...
Ringed Kingfisher
The Ringed Kingfisher (Megaceryle torquata) is a large, conspicuous and noisy kingfisher, commonly found along the lower Rio Grande River valley in southeasternmost Texas in the United States ...
Red-legged Honeycreeper
The Red-legged Honeycreeper is on average 12.2 cm long, weighs 14 g and has a medium-long black, slightly decurved, bill. The male is violet-blue with black wings, tail and back, and bright red legs. The crown of ...
Orange-chinned Parakeet
The Orange-chinned Parakeet (Brotogeris jugularis), also known as the Tovi Parakeet, is a small mainly green parrot of ...
Lesser Kiskadee
The Lesser Kiskadee (Pitangus lictor) is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family. It is found in Argentina, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador,French ...
House Wren
Adults are 11–13 cm long and weigh about 12 g. The subspecies vary greatly, with upperparts ranging from dull greyish-brown to rich rufescent-brown, and the underparts ranging from ...
