Hello all,
20th of February I was next to my bed at 4.30am, today I did go with a group of birders from Boquete to Cerro Batipa, lowland ... I was prepared...loads of water, a lot of food and covered in suncream.
I am not really a lowland birder, hot , but I was excited to see the birds on this property, because it is well protected by the owner Mr Rios( he did join us... I did go birding there before... see former posts.) and always a chance to see some shy birds.
I start with a video of "my" Veraguan Mango, that we brought a visit on the way back. She is catching small insects, I did see that also today . Today(21th) we could see that she has at least one very naked tiny baby. I think she had already baby('s) yesterday.
Back to Batipa... we did arrive around 7am ..as a highland girl I love these fresh early mornings...
We were welcomed by a group of Howler Monkeys, these two are very cute!
Lot of least Grebes in this pont...
At noon it was lunch time, nice in the shade...
Around 2pm a lot of group members were heading back to Boquete.
Ann and I decided to stay and wait for the birds to be more active again. Fortunately dark clouds came in and a nice breeze. Mr. Rios let the gate open and so no stress...we had time and we took our time...lovely! On our way out we did see the cross over for Monkeys and Sloths and other animals. The new road to Panama city is ready and they did built already 4 crossings, great!
I think around 5pm we were home in Boquete...
Greetings from Terry
The list...
Batipa, Chiriquí, PA Jan 20, 2018 7:00 AM - 3:30 PM Protocol: Historical Comments: sun last 1.5 hour clouds... did not count all the birds 86 species (+1 other taxa) Little Tinamou 1 HO Pied-billed Grebe 8 Wood Stork 6 Magnificent Frigatebird 3 Cattle Egret 8 Green Heron 1 Boat-billed Heron 5 Black Vulture 1 Turkey Vulture 1 White-tailed Kite 1 Common Black Hawk 1 Roadside Hawk 3 Gray-lined Hawk 1Pale-vented Pigeon 4 Ruddy Ground-Dove 20 approx White-tipped Dove 4 Smooth-billed Ani 7 Striped Cuckoo 1 HO Vaux's Swift 20 approx Stripe-throated Hermit 2 Scaly-breasted Hummingbird 1 + song Rufous-tailed Hummingbird 3 Gartered Trogon 2 Lesson's Motmot 1 Belted Kingfisher 1 + flight call Keel-billed Toucan 2 Red-crowned Woodpecker 4 Lineated Woodpecker 2 Crested Caracara 1 Yellow-headed Caracara 1 https://youtu.be/zm-uuztZeQ4 Laughing Falcon 2 HO Bat Falcon 1 Orange-chinned Parakeet 2 Blue-headed Parrot 2 Red-lored Parrot 20 approx Mealy Parrot 1 one flew in tree, heard more Brown-throated Parakeet 20 approx Black-hooded Antshrike 3 heard more Chestnut-backed Antbird 3 heard more woodcreeper sp. 1 Plain Xenops 1 Southern Beardless-Tyrannulet 2 heard more Immature:Adult:Mouse-colored Tyrannulet 1 heard lot of songs Yellow Tyrannulet 1 HO Yellow-crowned Tyrannulet 1 HO
greenish Elaenia 1
Yellow-bellied Elaenia 3 Yellow-olive Flycatcher 1
northern-scrub Flycatcher 1 Bright-rumped Attila 2 Heard 1 seen 1 Panama Flycatcher 3 heard 1 seen 2 Great Kiskadee 2 Rusty-margined Flycatcher 1 a video with sound (Call)https://youtu.be/vFyiQa_MZuA Social Flycatcher 1 Streaked Flycatcher 3 Tropical Kingbird 6 approx Fork-tailed Flycatcher 3 Lance-tailed Manakin 2 heard more Masked Tityra 2 Rose-throated Becard 1
white-winged Becard 1 HO Scrub Greenlet 1 HO Lesser Greenlet 2 Yellow-throated Vireo 2 Philadelphia Vireo 1 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 2 Mangrove Swallow 4 House Wren 2 Rufous-breasted Wren 1 Tropical Gnatcatcher 4 Clay-colored Thrush 3 Northern Waterthrush 1 Black-and-white Warbler 1 Prothonotary Warbler 3 Tennessee Warbler 2 Mourning Warbler 1 Yellow Warbler 1 Chestnut-sided Warbler 2 Gray-headed Tanager 1 HO Blue-gray Tanager 2 Palm Tanager 20 approx Red-legged Honeycreeper 2 Variable Seedeater 2 Buff-throated Saltator 4 Summer Tanager 1 Eastern Meadowlark 1 Crested Oropendola 10 approx Baltimore Oriole 1 Great-tailed Grackle 2 Yellow-crowned Euphonia 6 heard much morehttp://coffeeadventures.net/tinamou.html
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