All Panama Flashcards by Greg Harrington

Agami Heron

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Crimson Backed Tanager

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Thick Billed Euphonia

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Squirrel Cuckoo

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White Shouldered Tanager

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Blue Headed Parrot

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Blue Dacnis - male

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Snowy-billed Hummingbird

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Black Crowned Antshrike

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Barred Antshrike

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Yellow-crowned Tyrannulet (Small, small-billed flycatcher usually found in the canopy. Yellow belly with gray head and pale whitish eyebrow. Bold white wingbars. Namesake yellow crown is only sometimes visible. Sexes alike. Voice is the most obvious identification feature: listen for plaintive whistled song, “dee-DEER!”)

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Rusty Margined Flycatcher – (Most similar to Social and White-ringed Flycatchers; look for combination of black cheek (not gray) and especially obvious rufous in the wings. Shorter bill than White-ringed. Voice is helpful: listen for lazy-sounding, slightly burry “wheeer” call.)

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Rufous Breasted Wren

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Fork Tailed Flycatcher

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Scarlet rumped Cacique – (light blue eye in addition to the scarlet rump – which is seen better in flight)

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Short Tailed Swift

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Golden Collared Manakin

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Violet Bellied Hummingbird

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*Yellow Backed Oriole

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*Masked Tityra

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*Red Capped Manakin

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*Saffron Finch – Saffron Finch is found in dry open habitats including agricultural land and towns. Often in flocks.

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*Isthmian Wren – seems a lot like a Bewick’s wren

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*Lance Tailed Manaquin –Nearly identical to Long-tailed Manakin but no range overlap.

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*Yellow rumped Cacique

*Black Throated Mango

*Southern Bentbill - -A tiny well-named flycatcher with a distinctive bent bill like a broken nose

Sapphire Throated Hummingbird

Whooping Motmot -- Green above and warm rufous below, with a black mask bordered by a dazzling cerulean crown. The crown is not solidly blue, but instead has a circular black patch in the middle as if it’s wearing a yarmulke.

Black Chested Jay

Yellow Crowned Amazon (Parrot)

Panama Flycatcher

Crimson Crested Woodpecker -- male

Fasciated Antshrike

Streaked Saltator

Wattled Jacana

Plain Brown Woodcreeper

Forest Elania -- This nondescript flycatcher is most often detected by its call, a piercing two-parted “pee-sweet!” Visually it’s not overwhelming: yellowish underparts, olive upperparts, pale yellowish wingbars, and a gray head with a vague white eyebrow and black eyeline.

Scaled Pigeon

White Vented Plumeleteer - male

Rufous and white Wren

Northern Black Throated Trogon

Brown Capped Tyrannulet -- Tiny short-tailed flycatcher. Yellow below with white eyebrow that wraps around the forehead. No wingbars. Very similar to Yellow-bellied Tyrannulet, but note brown crown (not gray). Voice is also distinctive: a series of plaintive clear whistles descending in pitch. Found singly or in pairs, usually in the forest canopy, where it can be difficult to spot given its small size. Sometimes joins a mixed-species flock.

White Shouldered Tanager - Female

Blue Dacnis - female

Barred Antshrike - female

Violet Bellied Hummingbird - female

Golden Collared Manakin -- female/immature

Masked Tityra - female

Red Capped Manaquin - female (Often sits still for long periods and easily overlooked. Male unmistakable: flame-red head glows in shady forest. Female notably drab, dull greenish with dull pinkish bill, dark legs, best identified by shape and behavior.)

Lance Tailed Manaquin - female

Black Throated Hummingbird -- female (Widespread, but uncommon. Found in open habitats including forest edge, open woodlands, and shrubby second-growth.)

Sapphire Throated Hummingbird -- female (Note relatively long forked tail in both sexes. Occurs in dry woodland, scrub, and mangroves; often seen around flowering trees.)

Crimson Crested Woodpecker -- female

White Vented Plumeleteer -- female

Northern Black Throated Trogon - female

Great Tinamou

Little Tinamou

Gray Headed Chachalaca

*Marbled Wood Quail

*Black Eared Wood Quail

*Fasciated Tiger Heron

*Striated Heron

King Vulture

*Gray Headed Kite

*Pearl Kite

*Double Toothed Kite

*Black Collared Hawk

*Tiny Hawk

*Plumbeous Hawk

*Barred Hawk

*Semi-plumbeous Hawk

*White Hawk

Gray Hawk

Roadside Hawk

*Ornate Hawk Eagle

*Black Hawk Eagle

*Barred Forest Falcon

*Collared Forest Falcon

Bat Falcon

White Throated Crake

Sunbittern

*Wattled Jacana

*Scaled Pigeon

Ruddy Ground Dove

*Blue Ground Dove

*Gray Chested Dove

Olive Backed Quail Dove

PURPLISH BACKED QUAIL DOVE - endemic, key target.

Violaceous Quail Dove

Ruddy Quail Dove

Orange Chinned Parakeet

Blue Fronted Parrotlet

Blue Headed Parrot

Mealy Amazon (Parrot)

Red Lored Amazon (Parrot)

Squirrel Cuckoo

RUFOUS VENTED GROUND CUCKOO -- key target. Know the call.

Crested Owl

Tropical Screech Owl

Smooth Billed Ani

Rufous Nightjar

Common Potoo

Great Potoo

Chestnut Collared Swift

*Short Tailed Swift

*Band Tailed Barbthroat

Green Hermit (bvd)

*Long Billed Hermit

*Stripe Throated Hermit

*White Tipped Sicklebill

White Necked Jacobin

Violet HEADED Hummingbird

*Rufous Crested Coquette

Garden Emerald

*Violet Bellied Hummingbird

*Sapphire Throated Hummingbird

*VIOLET CAPPED HUMMINGBIRD -- endemic. Key target.

Blue Chested Hummingbird

*Snowy Bellied Hummingbird

Rufous Tailed Hummingbird

Bronze Tailed Plumeleteer

Green Crowned Brilliant

Purple Crowned Fairy

Gartered Trogon

Black Tailed Trogon

*Northern Black Throated Trogon

Slaty Tailed Trogon

Rufous Motmot

Broad Billed Motmot

Black Breasted Puffbird

Pied Puffbird

White Whiskered Puffbird

Great Jacamar

SPOT CROWNED BARBET -- key target. Cool bird.

Collared Aracari

*Yellow Eared Toucanet

Black cheeked Woodpecker

Red Crowned Woodpecker

*STRIPE CHEEKED WOODPECKER - Endemic. Key Target.

*Cinnamon Woodpecker

Lineated Woodpecker

*Crimson-bellied Woodpecker

*Crimson-crested Woodpecker -- mountain area of CA is the only real area possible

*Western (Striped) Woodhaunter

*Slaty-winged Foliage Gleaner -- CA only area possible

Northern Plain Xenops

*Middle American (Tawny throated) Leaftosser

*Scaly throated Leaftosser

*Plain Brown Woodcreeper

*Ruddy Woodcreeper

*Olivaceous Woodcreeper

*Piping Woodcreeper (long-tailed woodcreeper in the guidebooks). Scruffy feathers on the nape are key to the ID.

Wedge billed Woodcreeper

*Northern Barred Woodcreeper

Cocoa Woodcreeper

*Black striped woodcreeper

Spotted Woodcreeper

Fawn throated Foliage Gleaner

*Streak Headed Woodcreeper

*Brown billed Scythe bill

*Fasciated Antshrike

*Barred Antshrike

*Black Crowned Antshrike

*SPINY-FACED ANTSHRIKE -- Endemic and key target in the CA area.

*Russet Antshrike

*Spot Crowned Antvireo

*Checkerthroated Stiplethroat

*Moustached Antwren (Gamboa area)

*Pacific Antwren (pipeline area, if at all)

*White Flanked Antwren

Dusky Antbird

Dot-winged Antwren -- female looks like a spotted towhee...

Chestnut backed Antbird

*Spotted Antbird

*OCELLATED ANTBIRD -- key target.

Black Headed Antthrush

*BLACK CROWNED ANTPITTA

*Yellow Crowned Tyrannulet

*Brown Capped Tyrannulet

*Yellow Tyranulet

*Forest Elaenia

Yellow Bellied Elaenia

Lesser Elaenia

*Cocoi Heron

*Lesser Yellow Headed Vulture

*Hook Billed Kite

*Capped Heron

*Bicolored Hawk

*Savannah Hawk

*Great Black Hawk

*White Tailed Hawk

*Black and White Hawk Eagle

*Red Throated Caracara (maybe too far east)

*Laughing Falcon

Aplomado Falcon (coastal south of Panama City)

*Gray Breasted Crake (pipeline)

*Yellow Breasted Crake (Gamboa and north)

Ruddy Breasted Seedeater

Yellow Bellied Seedeater

Thick Billed Seedfinch

Wedge-tailed Grass-Finch

Saffron Finch

Slate Colored Seedeater

Slate Colored Grosbeak

Buff Throated Saltator

Black Headed Saltator

Streaked Saltator

Shinning Honeycreeper

Emerald Tanager

Speckled Tanager

Rufous Winged Tanager

Crimson Backed Tanager

White Lined Tanager

Flame Rumped Tanager

White Shouldered Tanager

Rosy Thrush Tanager

Common Chlorospingus (Bush Tanager)

Black and Yellow Tanager

Dusky Faced Tanager

Sulphur Rumped Tanager

Tawny Crested Tanager

Gray Headed Tanager - small, uncommon tanager of humid tropical lowland forest, sometimes found at army ant swarms. Typically inhabits low to mid-levels of shady understory, as singles or pairs.

White Throated Thrush

Pale Vented Thrush

Yellowish Pipit

Tawny Faced Gnatwren

Song Wren -Chunky short-tailed wren with long bill. Pale blue skin around eye is distinctive among wrens in range but compare with various antbirds. Note rufous throat and cheek and black barring on wings. Usually found in pairs or small groups. Always close to the ground in forested areas. Heard more often than seen; listen for unique combination of deep whistles and harsher clucking notes.

*Bay Wren

*Black Bellied Wren

**White Headed Wren - near endemic. Unique looking wren.

*Rufous Breasted Wren

*Rufous and white wren

*Buff breasted wren

*Isthmian Wren (was Plain Wren, but split)

*Nightingale Wren - Know the song. Slow whistles up and down in pitch...Small, dark brown wren of humid evergreen forest in tropical lowlands and foothills; most often detected by its distinctive song. Usually stays low, on or near the forest floor in shady understory, and is difficult to see well.

*White Thighed Swallow - Small dark brown swallow found in lowlands and foothills. Namesake white thighs are very difficult to see; instead focus on the overall darkness with little contrast. Rump is slightly paler but does not stand out nearly as much as on Southern Rough-winged Swallow.

*Brown Chested Martin (unlikely in the pipeline area) -- similar to bank swallows, but larger.

*Black Chested Jay

*Tody Motmot

Rufous Motmot

Lesson's Crowned Motmot

Broad Billed Motmot

*White Tailed Trogon

Gartered Trogon

*Northern Black Throated Trogon

*White Tailed Trogon

*Black Tailed Trogon -- white band between green and black unlike Slaty Tailed Trogon

*Veraguan Mango -- VA area and south

*Green and Rufous Kingfisher

American Pygmy Kingfisher

Amazon Kingfisher

*White necked Puffbird

Northern Emerald Toucanet

*Pale Breasted Spinetail -- Anton Valley only area possible

*Straight billed Woodcreeper

*Brown Billed Scythebill

*White bellied Antbird -- pipeline and VA area

*Bicolored Antbird -- pipeline seems like the best bet, but also CA

Black faced Antthrush

*Mouse colored Tyrannulet -- similar to Southern Beardless Ty, but not browner upper parts, Buffy wing bars and larger size

Ochre Bellied Flycatcher -- BVD

*Olive-striped Flycatcher -- VA area is the best bet. Spot behind eye, streaking on breast.

*Sepia Capped Flycatcher -- VA is the best area

*Yellow green Tyrannulet

*Black-capped Pygmy Tyrant

Mistletoe Tyrannulet

*Pale-eyed Pygmy-Tyrant - pipeline area is the best bet.

*Northern Scrub Flycatcher

*Slate Headed Tody-flycatcher

*Brownish Twistwing

*Western Olivaceous Flatbill

*Eye-ringed Flatbill -- VA area. White eye-ring seems to stand out

*Yellow-olive Flatbill (formerly Flycatcher?) -- VA area is the best bet. Very similar to yellow-margined -- light eye compared to yellow-margined dark eye

*Yellow-margined Flatbill -- KEY is the white patch at the base of the primary coverts -- dark eye

*White-throated Spadebill -- VA area.

*Golden-crowned Spadebill -- pipeline area and Gamboa.

*Ruddy-tailed Flycatcher -- pipeline area

*Black-tailed Flycatcher -- nearly identical to Sulphur-rumped.Extremely similar to Sulphur-rumped Flycatcher, which is usually found in more mature forest and has a darker breast. Black-tailed is more likely to be found around forest edge or second growth, but there is overlap. Singles or pairs forage in the understory, often following mixed-species flocks. Often fans its tail. Listen for dry “whit” call.

*Bran-colored Flycatcher

Sulphur-rumped Flycatcher -- nearly the same as Black-tailed

*Northern Tropical Pewee

*Pied Water Tyrant

*Long Tailed Tyrant -- VA area and pipeline

*Cattle Tyrant -- a second chance! East of Panama City and the Airport area...

*Rufous Mourner

*Lesser Kiskadee -- pipeline and Gamboa seems certain

*White-ringed Flycatcher -- the white eyebrow wraps around the back of the head (hence "White-ringed"). Also look for the very black cheek (not gray) and drab brown (not rufous) wings.