Panama 2011
In April we flew south to Panama to visit the historic Canal area and sample its wildlife in the surrounding rainforest. The Canal needs a lot of rain to maintain water levels required to operate the canal locks on both ends. Every time the lock doors open to the sea, a huge amount of water is released. The surrounding area is kept wild as a watershed to maintain water levels. Birds and animals benefit from the preserved watershed. We stayed at the Canopy Tower located in a converted US Air Force radar station overlooking the Panama Canal and the surrounding rainforest.
Gatun Lock, Panama Canal
Brown-throated Three-toed Sloth
Keel-billed Toucan
Canons at San Lorenzo Fort
Forest Mushroom
Kinkajou
Blue Dacnis
Scarlet Tanager
White-necked Jacobin
Canopy Tower
Butterfly
White-faced Capuchin
Green Iguana
Tarantula
Greater White-lined Bat
Green and Black Poison-Dart Frog
Western Night Monkeys
Chestnut-mandibled Toucan
Black-throated Trogan
Pheasant Cuckoo
Ocellated Antbird
Brown-throated Three-toed Sloth
Panama Canal
Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks
Little Blue Heron
Golden-collared Manakin
Geoffrey's Tamarin
Mantled Howler Monkey
White-faced Capuchin
Hoffman's Two-toed Sloth
Pheasant Cuckoo
White-tailed Nightjar
Allen's Olingo
Rufous Motmot
White-tipped Sicklebill
Western Pygmy Squirrel
Silky Anteater
Panamanian whiptail
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