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Download some great bird photo wallpapers
Download some great bird photo wallpapers from Panama for your computers desktop background! From pictures of the mighty Harpy Eagle to the colorful Toucans and from Tanagers to the Blue Crowned Motmot and Trogon plus many more. Please visit my new website Wallpapers247.com here to download the bird photo wallpapers, select the wallpaper you [...]
Read More..>>The Harpy Eagle catching a Sloth
The Harpy Eagle catching a Sloth video from Youtube. The Harpy Eagle’s main prey items are tree-dwelling mammals such as monkeys, coatis, and the sloth. You can find this and many more great nature videos here at my other website YourNaturePhotos.com where you also can upload your own nature photos.
Read More..>>The Collared Aracari in Panama
The Collared Aracari, Pteroglossus torquatus, is a medium-sized toucan, a near-passerine bird which breeds from southern Mexico to Panama; also Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela. Here in Panama I have seen them around the Pipeline Road in the Soberania National Park, they are mentioned to live also in most of the Darien area, all along the [...]
Read More..>>Birdwatching Websites on Panama
Some websites listed onDMOZ on Birdwatching in Panama:
Birding Panama – Birding tour company. Birding site information is provided
Birds at Panama’s Canopy Tower – Highlights and photographs of the Canopy Tower bird list.
Birdwatching Reports from Panama – Collection of trip reports and resources.
Panama Audubon Society – Information about birds and conservation issues in [...]
Masked Tityra in Panama
The Masked Tityra (Tityra semifasciata) is a medium-sized passerine bird. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist mountain forests, and heavily degraded former forest. This one was seen at the entrance of the the Summit Nature Park in Panama where it he also has his nest.
Read More..>>Tyrant Flycatchers in Panama
The tyrant flycatchers (Tyrrannidae) are a family of passerine birds which occur throughout North and South America, but are mainly tropical in distribution. They are now considered the largest family of birds on earth, with around 400 species. As could be expected from a family this large, the members vary greatly both in shape, patterns [...]
Read More..>>Herons and Egrets in Panama
The herons are wading birds in the Ardeidae family. Some are called egrets or bitterns instead of herons. Although herons resemble birds in some other families, such as the storks, ibises and spoonbills, they differ from these in flying with their necks retracted, not outstretched. The members of this family are mostly associated with wetlands, and [...]
Read More..>>Butterflies from Panama
Ok now about another kind of “birds”, wherever you go in Panama watch out for the butterflies, in a country where its name means “abundance of fish and butterflies” in its indigenous language, you can be sure to find plenty of them and in all shapes and forms. From the spectacular Blue Morpho to the [...]
Read More..>>Macaws in Panama
Macaws are small to large, often colorful New World parrots. In Panama mostly in the Darien we find the Blue and Gold Macaw, the Great Green Macaw and the Chestnut Fronted Macaw, the Red and Green Macaw and in the Coiba area and in the Cerro Hoya National Park the Scarlet Macaw. The majority of [...]
Read More..>>Woodpeckers in Panama
Woodpeckers are near passerine birds of the order Piciformes. They are found worldwide and include about 180 species, in Panama they can be found almost anywhere where there are trees and some of the species seen here are: the Linated Woodpecker, the Crimson Crested Woodpecker, the Pale-billed Woodpecker, the Golden Naped Woodpecker, the Red Crowned [...]
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