This year my parents took  my family and my sisters family to Panama.  We stayed at the Grand Avalon just outside Panama City.  We didn't spend very much time birding, we did manage to get a few morning walks in.  Along with one trip to Plantation Road, where we spent a few hours late in the afternoon.  We did a family walk at Metropolitan Nature Park, where the kids were able to see a three toed sloth, a monkey with baby, lizards, spiders, butterflies and a few birds. We visited Summit Gardens, there are as many birds outside of cages as there are inside cages.

One of most spectacular sightings we had were the Magnificent Frigatebirds going through the canal.  

Here is our listing of what we saw during our weeklong stay:

 

 

Brown Pelican
Neotropic Cormorant
Magnificent Frigatebird
Great Egret
Green-backed Heron
Wood Stork
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
Turkey Vulture
Black Vulture
Yellow-headed Caracara
Aplomado Falcon
Bat Falcon
Plain Chacalaca
Common Moorhen
Wattled Jacana
Laughing Gull
Rock Dove
Pale-vented Pigeon
Ruddy Ground-Dove
White-tipped Dove
Orange-chinned Parakeet
Blue-headed Parrot
Red-lored Amazon
Squirrel Cuckoo
Smooth Billed Ani
Lesser Swallow-tailed Swift
Stripe-throated Hermit
Blue-tailed Emerald
Sapphire-throated Hummingbird
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird
Rufous Motmot
Keel-billed Toucan
Red-crowned Woodpecker
Plain-Brown Woodcreeper
Barred Antshrike
Blue-crowned Manakin
Northern Scrub-Flycatcher
Common Tody-Flycatcher
Tropical Pewee
Social Flycatcher
Great Kiskadee
Boat-billed Flycatcher
Tropical Kingbird
Blue and White Swallow
House Wren
Clay-colored Thrush
Yellow-Green Vireo
Rufous-capped Warbler
Streaked Saltator
Rosy-thrush Tanager
Crimson-backed Tanager
Blue-gray Tanager
Palm Tanager
Yellow-crowned Euphonia
Plain-colored Tanager
Variable Seedeater
Lesser Seed-finch
Yellow-faced Grassquit
Great-tailed Grackle
Shiny Cowbird
Yellow Billed Caique


Orange-chinned Parakeet

Orange-chinned Parakeet
Red-Crowned WoodpeckerRed-Crowned Wookpecker


Black Vulure

Magnificent Frigatebird
Magnificent Frigatebird
Aplomado Falcon

Aplomado Falcon

                
                 Blue-tailed Emerald