Bird Watching in Panama

For bird watchers who desire a more exotic experience, wanting to enjoy a vast variety of birds, bird watching in Panama offers just this type of experience. There are tours offered for the beginning bird watcher in which travel is easy and a multitude of beautiful birds are seen throughout the trip. Hotels are the usual accommodations and the trip will usually take about a week to thoroughly enjoy all the sights along the way.

More Experienced Bird Watchers

Bird watching in Panama is also for the more experienced bird watcher who likes to get off the beaten path and go exploring into country that not many people have experienced. Panama is a unique place for bird watching since it is located between two major continents. Since it is a narrow strip of land that is surrounded on both sides by water, Panama is a dream site for bird watching because it attracts all different species of birds to its landscape. There are certain birds that live in Panama year round and others that migrate through Panama at certain times each year. It takes careful planning when traveling to bird watch in Panama to make sure that the particular species of bird that the bird watcher is looking to see in Panama will be available during that time of year.

There are different areas known in Panama for their bird watching fare such as locations near Boquete, Panama City, in the Gamboa Rainforest Resort and also on the islands of Bocas del Toro. One of the more famous tours through Panama for bird watching is the one down the Pipeline Road near Panama City. There are hundreds of different species of birds that can be viewed in one day on this road. Some of the beautiful species fo birds that can be found from this road are the Slaty-tailed Trogon and the Keel-billed Toucan. In addition, bird watching in Panama can also bring sightings of Forest wrens, Puffbirds and Mot-mots.

Depending on where the bird watching in Panama is experienced, bird watchers may need to be prepared to camp out while on the expedition. The more rugged tours require bird watchers to pack in their own supplies after being driven into the area, and then led by an experienced guide into the jungles off of the road. This type of a tour leads to seeing rarer species of birds, but it is not for the physically unfit.