Panama La Verde

I can’t think of a better name for the Park Eden B&B, situated as it is inside a true paradise of a garden. The day we spent there was the rainiest we had in all of Panama, but it didn’t much matter: the birding was soo good on the beautiful grounds that we didn’t feel [...]

An American Kestrel, the first of our trip, bade us farewell when we finally tore ourselves away from the Ammo Dump to visit an even more famous Panama birding site. But first we stopped to pay our respects to a local celebrity.

That smudgy form is a Great Potoo, well and aptly named. Luis told us [...]

The Ammo Dump, Pipeline Road, Old Gamboa Road: only a birder could find the romance in names like that! On our return from Chiriqui, we found not just the romance but the birds, lots and lots of birds, on what turned out to be one of the most exciting days of the entire Panama La [...]

I confess to being a little single-minded when I’m birding, but even my ornitho-obsession gives way briefly when a mammal appears, particularly one I haven’t seen before.
Though we were on the Panama La Verde birding circuit, new and interesting creatures of fur appeared regularly all week long. I was especially delighted to see 3 species [...]

Wonderful as the birding is around the Los Quetzales Lodge itself, it gets only better as you climb the short but rocky road to the upper cabins. When the truck can go no farther, the trail winds through a spectacularly beautiful forest full of birds.

Naturally we had to admire the Resplendant Quetzals, which nest right [...]