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
 Red-Crowned Wookpecker
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 Magnificent Frigatebird 
Aplomado Falcon
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