Hello readers, yesterday 23th of January 2025
I hiked on the sendero los Quetzales!
My favorite trail in Boquete. We have been hiking this trail since 1997. That year we were traveling around Panama as tourists and that year we fell in love with Panama and especially Boquete. In 1998 we hiked it again in March and then in September of that year we moved to Boquete. After that we hiked it many times with guests... tourists... bird watchers...ourselves, you name it. March 4, 2020 we went with a group to the beginning of the Quetzal trail and there was parkranger Carlos standing kind of anxiously in the front door and making gestures... no, the Quetzal trail is closed due to COVID.
We were impressed and we went sadly to another trail and well, after that it was of course a crazy bad time and we were busy getting guests on the plane to their country as soon as possible. During Covid the trail also had problems with landslides, bad weather, bridges washing away. So after Covid the trail remained closed. Luckily we had some good alternatives. I often asked the park rangers if they were working on it and when do you think it will open again. But I often got answers that said..."not yet"
15 January 2025 there was good news. The Minister of Ambiente (Carlos Navarro) was on the trail and on Instagram I saw and heard him say .. yes good news the trail will open on 15 January... Yesss!
And yesterday it was time. I was there with a couple from America..to walk the entire trail and watch birds. Hans and I were SO curious and I promised to take pictures...although with my phone, I didn't take my camera with me..too much lugging work. I could have taken a really good pictures of a yellow- green Brushfinch and a beautiful barred Becard and a buffy Tuftedcheek and three wattled Bellbirds that also did a display...and a Deer(central American Red Brocket) all very close to see...phew. But anyway the walk was great, the trails looked really good and there were new bridges!!! really so nice and much more safer then before. The weather was also fantastic, half cloudy now and then some clouds that came in...it was perfect. So yes I just wanted to get that off my chest... unfortunately no bird pictures...but pictures of the new bridges.
The American couple was impressed, that was also really nice. As a Dutch person living in Panama for more the 26 years already... I was proud.
I look forward to more beautiful visits to this beautiful trail!
Below the bird list of this day. And some pictures...
Greetings from Terry
PN Volcán Barú--Sendero los Quetzales, Chiriquí, PA
Jan 23, 2025 8:40 AM - 4:35 PM
Protocol: Traveling
9.15 kilometer(s)
Checklist Comments: Part clouds, no wind, hike the whole trail..ranger to ranger I did put a northern house Wren...but I removed it right away, now I do see that it is in the e-mail rare birds ... but it was a typo... it is of course a southern House Wren :)
70 species
Black Guan 3
Spotted Wood-Quail 2
Brown Violetear 2
Lesser Violetear 2
Talamanca Hummingbird 1
Fiery-throated Hummingbird 1
Purple-throated Mountain-gem 1
White-throated Mountain-gem 4
Volcano Hummingbird 1
Stripe-tailed Hummingbird 1
Southern Lapwing 1
Black Vulture 3 Flight
Collared Trogon (Orange-bellied) 2 Male female
Prong-billed Barbet 3 Heard more
Northern Emerald-Toucanet 1
Hairy Woodpecker 1
Sulphur-winged Parakeet X Heard in flight
Silvery-fronted Tapaculo 3 Heard calls seen 1 (female)
Spot-crowned Woodcreeper 1
Buffy Tuftedcheek 2 Heard 1 seen 1
Streak-breasted Treehunter 1
Spotted Barbtail 2
Ruddy Treerunner 4
Red-faced Spinetail 1
Three-wattled Bellbird 6 display..2 females and 2 males + songs...good view and heard 2 more
Barred Becard 3 pair and male + songs
Olive-streaked Flycatcher 1
Eye-ringed Flatbill 1
Tufted Flycatcher 2
Dark Pewee 1
Yellowish Flycatcher 2
Black-capped Flycatcher 4 Heard more calls
Rufous-browed Peppershrike 1 Heard
Yellow-winged Vireo 1
Brown-capped Vireo 1 heard
Silvery-throated Jay 2
Blue-and-white Swallow X
Southern House Wren 1
Ochraceous Wren 2
Gray-breasted Wood-Wren 2 Heard more songs and calls
Black-faced Solitaire 1 Heard more songs and calls
Black-billed Nightingale-Thrush 1
Slaty-backed Nightingale-Thrush 1 heard
Ruddy-capped Nightingale-Thrush 1 Heard calls
Mountain Thrush 1
Long-tailed Silky-flycatcher 2 Heard more songs and calls, very active ..high up in trees
Elegant Euphonia 1 Heard
Golden-browed Chlorophonia 2 Heard more songs/calls
Lesser Goldfinch 4
Sooty-capped Chlorospingus X
Common Chlorospingus 1
Chestnut-capped Brushfinch 3
Rufous-collared Sparrow 3
Large-footed Finch 1
Yellow-thighed Brushfinch 6 approx amount
Yellow-green Brushfinch 1 before open agricultural area alto chiquero..very good view, unmistaken ID... olive green back and underparts, seen a few times nearby in side trail Sendero los Quetzales
Wrenthrush 1
Great-tailed Grackle 3 alto chiquero
Flame-throated Warbler 3
Black-throated Green Warbler 2
Black-cheeked Warbler 7 Approx amount
Wilson's Warbler 2 heard more calls
Slate-throated Redstart 1
Collared Redstart 3
Blue Seedeater 1 heard calls..in dead Bamboo
Spangle-cheeked Tanager 2
Silver-throated Tanager 1
Slaty Flowerpiercer 2 males
Slaty Finch 1
Yellow-faced Grassquit 3 male 2x female1x
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S210424825
https://coffeeadventures.net/tinamou.html
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