Panama Bird List

Among the approximately 400 species of birds collectively seen in Panama along our route on past trips are the following. As always, some are common, some not so common, and some rare and difficult to find.

  • Great tinamou                   

  • Little tinamou                    

  • Black-bellied whistling-duck                   

  • Masked duck                     

  • Muscovy duck                   

  • Gray-headed chachalaca 

  • Black guan   

  • Rufescent tiger-heron      

  • Fasciated tiger-heron       

  • Boat-billed heron              

  • Wood stork 

  • Lesser yellow-headed vulture               

  • King vulture 

  • Swallow-tailed kite           

  • Double-toothed kite        

  • Mississippi kite                  

  • Plumbeous kite                 

  • Snail Kite      

  • Gray-headed Kite              

  • Crane hawk 

  • Semiplumbeous Hawk     

  • White hawk 

  • Great black hawk              

  • Savanna hawk                    

  • Roadside hawk                  

  • Broad-winged hawk         

  • Short-tailed hawk             

  • Swainson’s hawk               

  • Zone-tailed hawk              

  • Black hawk-eagle               

  • Ornate hawk-eagle            

  • Collared forest-falcon      

  • Slaty-backed forest-falcon                      

  • Laughing falcon                 

  • Bat falcon    

  • Yellow-headed caracara  

  • White-throated crake      

  • Gray-cowled wood-rail    

  • Wattled jacana                   

  • Pale-vented pigeon          

  • Short-billed pigeon           

  • Scaled pigeon

  • Blue ground dove             

  • Ruddy ground dove         

  • Gray-chested dove           

  • White-tipped dove           

  • Orange-chinned parakeet                       

  • Barred parakeet                 

  • Brown-throated parakeet                       

  • Blue-headed parrot          

  • Mealy parrot                      

  • Yellow-crowned parrot    

  • Red-lored Parrot

  • Squirrel cuckoo                 

  • Striped cuckoo                  

  • Pheasant cuckoo              

  • Rufous-vented ground-cuckoo             

  • Groove-billed ani              

  • Smooth-billed ani             

  • Greater ani  

  • Mottled owl

  • Spectacled owl                  

  • Black-and-white owl        

  • Tropical screech-owl        

  • Choco screech-owl           

  • Crested owl 

  • Common pauraque          

  • Short-tailed swift              

  • Band-rumped swift          

  • Lesser swallow-tailed swift                    

  • White-collared swift         

  • Band-tailed barbthroat   

  • Stripe-throated hermit    

  • Green hermit                      

  • Long-billed hermit            

  • White-tipped sicklebill    

  • White-necked jacobin     

  • Black-throated mango     

  • Garden emerald                 

  • Crowned woodnymph     

  • Violet-bellied hummingbird                   

  • Snowy-bellied hummingbird                  

  • Rufous-tailed hummingbird                   

  • White-vented plumeleteer                      

  • Bronze-tailed plumeleteer                      

  • Sapphire-throated hummingbird         

  • Black-tailed trogon           

  • White-tailed trogon         

  • Gartered (Violaceous) trogon               

  • Slaty-tailed trogon            

  • Collared (Orange-bellied) trogon         

  • Black-throated trogon     

  • Tody motmot                     

  • Whooping motmot          

  • Lesson's motmot

  • Rufous motmot                 

  • Broad-billed motmot       

  • Ringed kingfisher              

  • Amazon kingfisher            

  • American pygmy kingfisher                    

  • Green kingfisher                

  • White-necked puffbird    

  • Black-breasted puffbird  

  • White-whiskered puffbird                      

  • Pied puffbird                      

  • Collared aracari                 

  • Keel-billed toucan            

  • Yellow-throated toucan  

  • Northern emerald toucanet                  

  • Spot-crowned barbet       

  • Black-cheeked woodpecker                    

  • Red-crowned woodpecker                     

  • Cinnamon woodpecker   

  • Crimson-crested woodpecker                

  • Lineated woodpecker      

  • Plain xenops                      

  • Plain-brown woodcreeper                      

  • Ruddy woodcreeper         

  • Olivaceous woodcreeper 

  • Wedge-billed woodcreeper                    

  • Northern barred woodcreeper              

  • Cocoa woodcreeper          

  • Spotted woodcreeper      

  • Streak-headed woodcreeper                  

  • Brown-billed scythebill   

  • Barred antshrike               

  • Great antshrike                  

  • Fasciated antshrike           

  • Black-crowned antshrike

  • Russet antshrike                

  • Plain antvireo                     

  • Spot-crowned antvireo    

  • Dot-winged antwren        

  • Moustached antwren       

  • Pacific antwren                  

  • White-flanked antwren   

  • Slaty antwren                     

  • Dusky antbird                    

  • Jet antbird   

  • White-bellied antbird      

  • Chestnut-backed antbird

  • Dull-mantled antbird       

  • Spotted antbird                 

  • Ocellated antbird              

  • Bicolored antbird              

  • Black-faced antthrush     

  • Black-capped antpitta      

  • Brown-capped tyrannulet                       

  • Southern beardless tyrannulet             

  • Forest elaenia                     

  • Greenish elaenia                

  • Lesser elaenia                     

  • Yellow-bellied elaenia      

  • Olive-striped flycatcher   

  • Ochre-bellied flycatcer    

  • Mistletoe tyrannulet        

  • Scale-crested pygmy-tyrant                    

  • Southern bentbill              

  • Common tody-flycatcher

  • Black-headed tody-flycatcher                

  • Olivaceous flatbill             

  • Eye-ringed flatbill              

  • Yellow-olive flatbill (flycatcher)             

  • Yellow-winged flatbill (flycatcher)        

  • Golden-crowned spadebill                     

  • White-throated spadebill                       

  • Royal flycatcher                 

  • Ruddy-tailed flycatcher   

  • Black-tailed flycatcher     

  • Northern tropical pewee 

  • Acadian flycatcher            

  • Willow flycatcher              

  • Bright-rumped Attila        

  • Great-crested flycatcher 

  • Panama flycatcher            

  • Cattle tyrant

  • Lesser Kiskadee                 

  • Great kiskadee                   

  • Boat-billed flycatcher       

  • Social flycatcher                

  • Rusty-margined flycatcher                     

  • Piratic flycatcher               

  • Streaked flycatcher           

  • Sulphur-bellied flycatcher                      

  • Tropical kingbird               

  • Eastern kingbird                

  • Fork-tailed flycatcher       

  • Masked tityra                     

  • Black-crowned tityra        

  • Russet-winged schiffornis                      

  • Northern schiffornis        

  • Blue cotinga

  • Purple-throated fruitcrow                      

  • Red-capped manakin       

  • Golden-collared manakin                       

  • Lance-tailed manakin       

  • White-ruffed manakin     

  • White-eyed vireo              

  • Yellow-throated vireo      

  • Yellow-green vireo            

  • Scrub greenlet                    

  • Golden-fronted greenlet 

  • Lesser greenlet                   

  • Green shrike-vireo            

  • Rufous-browed peppershrike                

  • Black-chested jay              

  • Gray-breasted martin      

  • Mangrove swallow            

  • Black-bellied wren            

  • Bay wren      

  • Rufous-breasted wren     

  • Rufous-and-white wren  

  • Buff-breasted wren          

  • Isthmian (Plain) wren       

  • Ochraceous wren              

  • White-breasted wood-wren                   

  • Gray-breasted wood-wren                     

  • Song wren   

  • Scaly-breasted wren         

  • Long-billed gnatwren       

  • Tawny-faced gnatwren     

  • Tropical gnatcatcher         

  • Swainson’s thrush            

  • Clay-colored thrush         

  • Pale-vented thrush          

  • White-throated thrush   

  • Tropical mockingbird       

  • Prothonotary warbler      

  • Northern parula                

  • Golden-winged warbler

  • Tennessee warbler            

  • Magnolia warbler              

  • Chestnut-sided warbler   

  • Black-throated green warbler                

  • Yellow-throated warbler  

  • Bay-breasted warbler       

  • Cerulean warbler               

  • Black-and-white warbler 

  • American redstart             

  • Kentucky warbler              

  • Mourning warbler             

  • Canada warbler                  

  • Chestnut (Rufous)-capped warbler      

  • Buff-rumped warbler        

  • Bananaquit  

  • Common chlorospingus (bush-tanager)                    

  • Black-and-yellow tanager                        

  • Dusky-faced tanager         

  • Carmiol’s tanager              

  • Gray-headed tanager       

  • White-shouldered tanager                     

  • Tawny-crested tanager     

  • White-lined tanager         

  • Crimson-backed tanager 

  • Flame (yellow)-rumped tanager           

  • Blue-gray tanager              

  • Palm tanager                      

  • Plain-colored tanager       

  • Silver-throated tanager    

  • Emerald tanager                

  • Golden-hooded tanager  

  • Scarlet-thighed dacnis    

  • Blue dacnis 

  • Red-legged honeycreeper                       

  • Green honeycreeper         

  • Shining honeycreeper      

  • Wedge-tailed grass-finch

  • Blue-black grassquit        

  • Variable seedeater            

  • Yellow-bellied seedeater 

  • Blue seedeater                   

  • Thick-billed seedfinch      

  • Yellow-faced grassquit    

  • Chestnut-capped brushfinch                

  • Orange-billed sparrow    

  • Black-striped sparrow      

  • Hepatic tanager                 

  • Scarlet tanager                   

  • Red-crowned ant-tanager                       

  • Red-throated ant-tanager                       

  • Buff-throated saltator      

  • Streaked saltator               

  • Black-faced grosbeak       

  • Slate-colored grosbeak    

  • Rose-breasted grosbeak  

  • Blue-black grosbeak         

  • Indigo bunting                   

  • Giant cowbird                    

  • Orchard oriole                   

  • Yellow-backed oriole        

  • Yellow-tailed oriole           

  • Baltimore oriole                

  • Yellow-billed cacique       

  • Scarlet-rumped cacique  

  • Yellow-rumped cacique   

  • Chestnut-headed oropendula               

  • Yellow-crowned euphonia                      

  • Thick-billed euphonia      

  • Fulvous-vented euphonia                       

  • Tawny-capped euphonia