TROPICAL BIRDS IN PANAMA, LIVE WEBCAM
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- Location: Canopy Lodge, El Valle de Antón, Panama, South America
- Source: www.canopytower.com
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Info: Live streaming tropical bird webcam at the Panama fruit feeder in Panama, South America. The webcam shows beautiful colourful fruit eating birds
visiting a feeder at the Canopy Lodge in
Valle de Anton.
To view more live bird webcams in South America, visit : Live South America Bird Feeder Webcams
Birds seen include the rufous motmot, thrushes, doves, cuckoos, hummingbirds, flycatchers, jays, wrens, honeycreepers, bananaquits, wood rail, tanagers, euphonia, barbets, red crowned woodpecker and chachalacas. At night the feeder is visited by orange nectar bats, opossums and moths.
The Rufous Motmot is common in the lowland and foothill forests in Panama, up to 1400mtrs. It is the largest motmot in Pnanama with a length of nearly half a metre. It has a bright orange-rufous head, large black mask and green-blue back and tail. In Panama, the Rufous Motmot is known as “barranquero” and “guardabarranco,” referring to the nests it builds in banks.
The birds of Panama make up approximately 10% of the world’s known birds. There are sixteen species of birds in Panama, classified as Globally Threatened; some of the most splendid are the Bare-necked Umbrellabird, the Resplendent Quetzal, the Three-wattled Bellbird and the Yellow-billed Cotinga. Panama has just over 1,000 bird species recorded, 11 of them are National endemics, and around 107 species are Regional endemics.
Video showing common bird species at the Panama Fruit Feeder:
More info: Panama boasts a stunning variety of bird species and as almost half the country is covered by tropical rain and cloud forests, it is the ideal place for birdwatching enthusiasts.
Panama's national bird is the Harpy Eagle
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