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Panama: Fall at the Canopy Tower

The Canopy tower is perched atop a hill in Soberania National Park…
…and offers great views of the expansive forests…
…that guard the Panama Canal’s watershed.
Formerly a U.S. military radar site, the Tower has been refurnished, with an expansive and excellent dining room…
…a marvelous upper deck…
…providing views of treetop animals such as this Brown-throated Three-toed Sloth…
…the wildly colored Collared Aracari…
…the stately Black-breasted Puffbird…
…inquisitive Geoffrey’s Tamarins…
…and perhaps a bright insect or two attracted to the warmth of the tower.
Using open-air vehicles we’ll explore the many birding locations within a few miles of the tower…
…where over 400 species of birds have been recorded, from Slaty-tailed Trogon…
…and Rusty-margined Flycatcher…
A trip to the famous Pipeline Road…
…perhaps an active antswarm with its attendant Ocellated Antbirds.
Over 400 bird species have been seen within 20 miles of the Canopy Tower ranging from Broad-billed Motmot…
…the vocal but shy Streak-chested Antpitta…
…and always it seems a surprise or two, like this Collared Forest Falcon.
Mantled Howler Monkeys may follow us along the trail…
…where we’ll pause to admire the occasional bubbling waterfall…
…or perhaps some of the harder to spot denizens of the forest like this Brown Wood-Turtle…
…or these young Spectacled Owls…
…as well as more widespread ones like Black-tailed Trogon…
…or the glittering Violet-crowned Woodnymph.
If we’re really lucky we might catch sight of some roosting Panama Night Monkeys.
A trip to nearby Cerro Azul will provide a comfortable perch from which we hope to see…
…or other gems such as Emerald Tanager…
…and in these wonderful surroundings…
…or the endemic Stripe-cheeked Woodpecker…

 

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