Panama Day 6: #716-726 at Metropolitan Park
Friday was our last full day in the vicinity of the Tower. We drove down into Panama City to visit Metropolitan Park, their “Central Park” though it’s much more wild than either Manhattan’s or Huntington Beach’s. We got some good birds here, and lucked into a really big mixed flock toward the end.
- Gray-chested Dove
- Yellow-crowned Parrot
- Forest Elaenia
- Lance-tailed Manakin (a Panama endemic!)
- Rufous-and-white Wren
- Red-crowned Ant-Tanager
- Rufous-breasted Wren
- White-tipped Dove
- Yellow-green Tyrannulet
- Bright-rumped Attila
- Orange-billed Sparrow
We also got the best looks I’ve ever had of Mourning Warbler and Kentucky Warbler, which for some reason seemed a lot less shy here than in New York. I was hoping for Little Tinamou here, but we whiffed on that. :-(
Still, overall I think we had almost 50 species here including:
- Black-and-white Warbler
- Yellow-crowned Parrot
- Black Vulture
- Blue Dacnis
- Bright-rumped Attila
- Canada Warbler
- Clay-colored Thrush
- Cocoa Woodcreeper
- Dusky Antbird
- Eastern Wood-Pewee
- Forest Elaenia
- Golden-fronted Greenlet
- Gray-chested Dove
- Great Crested Flycatcher
- Kentucky Warbler
- Lance-tailed Manakin
- Lesser Greenlet
- Long-billed Gnatwren
- Northern Waterthrush
- Orange-billed Sparrow
- Paltry Tyrannulet
- Plain Xenops
- Rufous-and-white Wren
- Red-crowned Ant-Tanager
- Red-eyed Vireo
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak
- Red-throated Ant-Tanager
- Rufous-tailed Hummingbird
- Rufous-breasted Wren
- Ruddy-tailed Flycatcher
- Slaty-tailed Trogon
- Snowy-bellied Hummingbird
- Southern Bentbill
- Squirrel Cuckoo
- Tropical Gnatcatcher
- Tropical Kingbird
- Turkey Vulture
- Western Slaty-Antshrike
- White-shouldered Tanager
- White-tipped Dove
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo
- Yellow-backed Oriole
- Yellow-green Tyrannulet
- Yellow-rumped Cacique
- Blue-black Grosbeak
