Site Report: Rio Paca Station, Panama

Spectacled Antpitta (Hylopezus perspicillatus)

Broad-billed Motmot (Electron platyrhynchum)

Purple-throated Fruitcrow (Querula purpurata) - Male

White-tailed Trogon (Trogon viridis) - Male

Red-throated Caracara (Daptrius americanus)

Geoffroy's tamarin (Saguinus geoffroyi)

Bay-headed Tanager (Tangara gyrola)

Golden-headed Manakin (Ceratopipra erythrocephala) - Male

Sulphur-rumped Flycatcher (Myiobius sulphureipygius)

Piping Long-tailed Woodcreeper (Deconychura typica)

Slaty-winged Foliage-gleaner (Philydor fuscipennis)

Paula's Clearwing (Oleria paula)

Ringed Kingfisher (Megaceryle torquata)

Great Green Macaw (Ara ambigua)

White-tailed Trogon (Trogon viridis) - Female

Golden-headed Manakin (Ceratopipra erythrocephala)
















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Spectacled Antpitta (Hylopezus perspicillatus)

Broad-billed Motmot (Electron platyrhynchum)

Purple-throated Fruitcrow (Querula purpurata) - Male

White-tailed Trogon (Trogon viridis) - Male

Red-throated Caracara (Daptrius americanus)

Geoffroy's tamarin (Saguinus geoffroyi)

Bay-headed Tanager (Tangara gyrola)

Golden-headed Manakin (Ceratopipra erythrocephala) - Male

Sulphur-rumped Flycatcher (Myiobius sulphureipygius)

Piping Long-tailed Woodcreeper (Deconychura typica)

Slaty-winged Foliage-gleaner (Philydor fuscipennis)

Paula's Clearwing (Oleria paula)

Ringed Kingfisher (Megaceryle torquata)

Great Green Macaw (Ara ambigua)

White-tailed Trogon (Trogon viridis) - Female

Golden-headed Manakin (Ceratopipra erythrocephala)
A very basic campsite next to a small river. The surrounding area is a former pasture, but the forest has regenerated spectacularly. The GPS is an estimate.
Visits
- 2009-03-13: We left in the morning from Cana, and we spent most of the daylight hours walking through rain forest to this next campsite. We arrived pretty exhausted, and everyone was soon in the river cooling off and cleaning off the grime. We were able to see helicopter wreckage from the US invasion of Panama in 1989.
Species Seen
Kingdom: Animals (31 records)
Phylum: Arthropods
(1 record)
Class: Insects
(1 record)
- Order: Butterflies and Moths
(1 record)
- Family: Brush-footed Butterflies
- Paula's Clearwing (Oleria paula)
Phylum: Chordates
(30 records)
Class: Birds
(29 records)
- Order: Hummingbirds and Swifts
(1 record)
- Family: Hummingbirds
- White-necked Jacobin (Florisuga mellivora)
- Order: Kingfishers, Bee-eaters, Motmots
(2 records)
- Family: Kingfishers
- Ringed Kingfisher (Megaceryle torquata)
- Family: Motmots
- Broad-billed Motmot (Electron platyrhynchum)
- Order: Parrots
(2 records)
- Family: New World Parrots
- Great Green Macaw (Ara ambiguus)
- Red-lored Amazon (Amazona autumnalis)
- Order: Pelicans
(1 record)
- Family: Falcons and Caracaras
- Red-throated Caracara (Ibycter americanus)
- Order: Perching Birds
(19 records)
- Family: Antthrushes
- Streak-Chested Antpitta (Hylopezus perspicillatus)
- Family: Cotingas
- Purple-throated Fruitcrow (Querula purpurata)
- Family: Gnatwrens
- Tawny-faced Gnatwren (Microbates cinereiventris)
- Family: Manakins
- Golden-collared Manakin (Manacus vitellinus)
- Golden-headed Manakin (Ceratopipra erythrocephala)
- Family: Ovenbirds and Woodcreepers
- Piping Long-tailed Woodcreeper (Deconychura typica)
- Slaty-winged Foliage-gleaner (Neophilydor fuscipenne)
- Family: Tanagers and Allies
- Bay-headed Tanager (Tangara gyrola)
- Lemon-spectacled Tanager (Chlorothraupis olivacea)
- White-shouldered Tanager (Loriotus luctuosus)
- Family: Typical Antbirds
- Checker-throated Stipplethroat (Epinecrophylla fulviventris)
- Spotted Antbird (Hylophylax naevioides)
- Family: Tyrant Flycatchers
- Acadian Flycatcher (Empidonax virescens)
- Eye-ringed Flatbill (Rhynchocyclus brevirostris)
- Streaked Flycatcher (Myiodynastes maculatus)
- Sulphur-rumped Flycatcher (Myiobius sulphureipygius)
- Western Olivaceous Flatbill (Rhynchocyclus aequinoctialis)
- Family: Wrens
- Stripe-throated Wren (Cantorchilus leucopogon)
- White-headed Wren (Campylorhynchus albobrunneus)
- Order: Tinamiformes
(1 record)
- Family: Tinamous
- Great Tinamou (Tinamus major)
- Order: Trogons
(1 record)
- Family: Trogons
- White-tailed Trogon (Trogon chionurus)
- Order: Woodpeckers, Barbets, Toucans, and Honeyguides
(2 records)
- Family: Piculets and Woodpeckers
- Black-cheeked Woodpecker (Melanerpes pucherani)
- Family: Toucans
- Yellow-throated Toucan (Ramphastos ambiguus)
Class: Mammals
(1 record)
- Order: Primates
(1 record)
- Family: Marmosets and Tamarins
- Geoffroy's Tamarin (Saguinus geoffroyi)