Basic 4 days low budget birding to :

Central Panama and Canal

(every day tour from 6:00am till noon)

•      INCLUDED in tour price; English/Spanish licenced birdguide with fieldscope, and the latest Panama field-guide.  1
  Tours are from 6:00am till noon
  ·    NOT INCLUDED in tour price:  entrance fees to parks, government taxes, lodging, transportation, meals , personal items, gratuities.

Note; when visiting the Rainforret Discovery Center (PRDC) tisket $25.00 and to the Metropolitan Nature Park ticket  $5.00 per person.

Advance booking is require to separate dates, vehicle and the birdguide.

Let us know if this works for you and we can send you an e-bill through our secure business account with PAYPAL for you to book the tour with a Payment Deposit  require and tour balance in cash at Day1.

ITINERARY

Day 1 - Parque Metropolitano.
Our first birding day will start at 6:00 am at the Metropolitan Nature Park (470 acres of dry second and youngest growth forest with patches of grassy areas ) giving us the opportunity to beginning with the search of the Lance-tailed Manakin, the endemic Yellow-green Tyrannulet, Rosy Thrush-Tanager (uncommon), Orange-chinned Parakeets, Pheasant Cuckoo (rare) and more; birding will continue until noon. The Park has several trails that we may walk like the Mono Titi Trail (named after the tamarins an easy place to spot Geoffrey’s Tamarins and other wildlife) and La Cieneguita trail. Other posible sightings on the way includes Blue-crowned Motmot, Cocoa and Olivaceous woodcreepers, Slaty-tailed Trogon, Northern Waterthrush, Great Kiskadee, Thick-billed Euphonia, Snowy-bellied Hummingbird, Red-legged Honeycreeper, Southern Beardless- and (H) Yellow-crowned tyrannulets, Plain-colored Tanager and a diurnal Central American Agouti. We may also see a Variegated Squirrel, a Coatimundi, a Three-Toed Sloth, Panama Hat Palms, a "Beer Belly" Tree (an example of a Cuipo which Harpy Eagles use as nestong trees), butterflies and several kinds of clear-winged helicopter damselflies.

Day 4 - Pipeline Road.
Early morning we’ll visit the Panama Rainforest Discovery Center (PRDC) in Pipeline Road which is a most. We’ll search for canopy specialties like Green Shrike-Vireo, Forest Elaenia, Blue Cotinga, Collared Arasari, Chesnut-mandible and Keel-billed Tucan and looking also for flying raptors and many other birds that favors the canopy. Later on mid-morning we’ll work surrounding trails and part of the Pipeline Road (a secondary forest with some scrubbier areas, with many streams crossing it) will follow all day. We will heard and look for the Southern Bentbill, Pheasant Cuckoo, Green Shrike-Vireo, Grey Elaenia, Streak-chested Antpitta, Spotted Antbird, Long-billed Gnatwren, Great Jacamar and, before heading back at noon a visit to the Ammunition Ponds (marshy area), very productive during any hour of the day, we will search for the Snail Kite, White-throated Crakes, Ruddy-breasted Seedeaters, Rufescent Tiger-Heron, Variable Seedeater, Smooth-billed Ani and more.