Evolutionary Plume

Panama Trip Day Eleven: : Gamboa: Pipeline Trail : Soberania National Forest : Nature Center, Fundacion Avifauna Eugene Eisenmann

Bob and I wake up late and have private time after a good breakfast. Sated, Bob allows me to do my grammar homework and post it early, since I am unsure how much access I will have to the computer. Once I get that done, we head toward the pipeline trail, that has become the Discovery Center of the Soberania National Forest and requires a $20 per person admission fee, $30 if you arrive in the morning. The receptionist promises us $10 toward a purchase in their gift store. While they haggle through what is allowed, I start birding. Another couple arrives and so do the birds.

Suddenly we are surrounded with too many birds to identify at once. Bob and I are quite content to stay, but the staff pushes us out, telling us you get the guide for free for an hour at the viewing tower. The guide cheats and takes us to a nearby trail, where again we are surrounded by birds of many species. Bob is slow to find the birds because he has the longer distance narrower field of view glasses. I eventually find them all for him to identify, but I expect we drive the other couple nuts.

The guide takes off, telling us her shift is through. No problem, she managed to get us out into the forest. We take a path that leads us the long way to the viewing tower. We reach it  with not much time before the Center closes and locks the gate. We climb up, up, up, three levels, almost four when the winds blow up. Trees around us are blowing back and forth 5 feet or more. Bob gets nervous and sits down because he feels the tower shaking. I’m relieved to not have to go all the way to the top—I get really nervous at heights. Luckily, Bob doesn’t take offense when I say I can’t stand anyone behind me on the tower. We squeak down, but manage to get pictures of several orchids, but alas, no birds or monkeys. We did get many new varieties, and on the back trail we manage to find three Crimson-crested Woodpeckers spiraling around their home for long enough for Bob to get pictures including one with the identifying face patch. We pick up our gift at the gift store then head back to our hotel, stopping outside the gate several places to identify more birds and then again at the lake across from the STRI center where we get Rufescent Tiger Heron.

With still time to bird, Bob took me over to the waterfront restaurant and marina where he thought we’d find good birding. Turns out he was right. We birded along the shore, finding the lizard and turtles before heading uphill where we found the sewage processing facility. On our return, we ran into another birder who suggested we look for monkeys near the forest and the old American housing facility and to try out Achiote Road near Colon. Everyone tells us to stay out of Colon.

Bob and I had drinks in the bar, while watching CNN. Then we continued over to the specialty restauarant at the Gamboa Rainforest Hotel where for a set price of $35 we were given an appetizer, meal, and postre (dessert). I had palm hearts covered with creamy vineagrette, beef with fresh vegetables, and mashed potatoes and strawberry ice cream, brownies in a caramelized basket. I couldn’t finish the potatoes and beef but I still ate the postre.

Then we did our bird lists and crashed.

Birds: White-necked Jacobin hummingbird, Chestnut-Mandibled Toucan, Purple-throated Fruit Crow, Broadbilled Motmot, Cocoa Woodcreeper, Crimson-backed Tanager, Black Vulture, Turkey Vulture, Piratoc Flycatcher, Flame-rumped Tanager, Ruddy-tailed Flycatcher, Red-crowned Ant Tanager, Dot-winged Antwren, Golden-collared Manakin, Dusky Antbird, Crimson-crested Woodpecker, Fasciated Antshrike, Common Moorhen, Rufescent Tiger Heron, White-tipped Pigeon, Great Blue Heron, Yellow-headed Caracara, S. Roughwinged Swallow, Social Flycatcher, Panama Flycatcher

Mammals : Basilisk Lizard, Agouti, same as Florida Turtle, (Panamanian) Western Night Monkey

 

 

Panama Trip Day 10: Gamboa: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute at Barro Colorado and Back

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Our morning started with a rushed attempt to get a bottle of water while the manager played “it’s in the honor bar, give me a credit card, or try the not yet open breakfast café.” I did get one, snagged some corn flakes but never ate them, then found the trolley ride to the STRI pier. Turns out it was just down the road and we could have driven easier and parked there with no trouble. We were met by Bob’s contact Jennifer, introduced to our guide Ian, and met our fellow birders, Katherine from Texas and Giles, the French ambassador’s office. Giles took the day off to get to see STRI since it is so hard to get scheduled for the visit.

Barro Colorado is the hilltop of a mountain on the edge of where the Panama Canal was planned and turned into an island when they flooded the region. All of the local inhabitants had been moved before the flooding. Animals swim between the islands. We boarded the ferry—due for servicing and a smaller boat scheduled to replace it for a while which will make seats very limited. The STRI employees live either on the island, in the surrounding area, or commute from Panama City.

Our hotel, the Gamboa Rainforest Lodge is a 250 person, two pool place, with four restaurants, a bar, gift shop and huge grounds along the Chagres River. It is located next to former Gamboa—the area the US personnel lived in while they managed the Panama Canal and now, refurbished and available for purchase or rent or something. Most of the former quarters make a ghost town. In Gamboa, STRI has a greenhouse they are building that houses nursery plants.

After a 45-minute boat ride along the Panama Canal, spent bypassing commercial freighters at times and reading literature about STRI research projects, we pull into the research center which has housing, laboratories, and a lunch room and gift shop. We taped up our legs and set off on a 4.5 hour hike.

Although we saw wildlife, the primary focus was on Panamanian trees and some of the technology used in monitoring the forest. Lianas are a questionable part that climbs trees, blocks out their sunlight leading to their eventual collapse, and transporting large quantities of water from deep tap root system. Most of the trees have very shallow roots systems and studies are finding out if they are being held up by the lianas as much as holding the lianas.

The hike, which seemed to be primarily uphill was intensified by the lack of air movement and general heat. We saw part of the animal tracking system tower, funnels attached to bottles sitting around measuring the rainfall and collecting samples because they want to see who is generating calcium i.e. they know the figs do so quite a bit. They’ve measured the water flow up a tree and sap flow, I think if different. They’ve placed nets to collect fruit samples. One tree had a metal ruler that widened with the tree so that its growth was easily measured. We were shown various fruits, some edible, some like the wild cashew edible to animals but bitter to people, a tree that produces a flower and fruit like a yam, a tree that produces a gummy substance like rubber. One tree has thorns at the bottom with no discernible purpose or genetic advantage.

Birds:

Mangrove Swallow, Social Flycatcher,  Slaty-tailed Trogon, Great Tinamou, Spotted Antbird, Variable Seedeater, Blue-crowned Motmot, Blue-gray Tanager, Crimson-backed Tanager, Flame-rumped Tanager

Mammals: x Nose Bat, x bat, American Crocodile, Basilisk Lizard, Poison Dart Frog, Howler Monkey, Agouti

Kapok Tree, Leaf cutter Trashpile had Spotted Antbird

 

Top Ecolodge Travel Destinations in Panama Sample Different Habitats | Trifter

Top Ecolodge Travel Destinations in Panama Sample Different Habitats | Trifter.

Top Ecolodge Travel Destinations in Panama Sample Different Habitats | Trifter

Panama is a wonderful country to find wildlife–stays at Ecolodges help visitors make the most of their experiences. Try these top Ecolodges on your first visit, read why.

Review of Buccaneers Restaurante, Amador Causeway, Panama City | Trifter

Review of Buccaneers Restaurante, Amador Causeway, Panama City | Trifter.

If you’re visiting Panama City, Panama for the first time, try Buccaneers Restaurant on the Amador Causeway.

Read more: http://trifter.com/caribbean-latin-america/panama/review-of-buccaneers-restaurante-amador-causeway-panama-city/#ixzz1qZ875q5j 

Panama Trip Day Nine : El Valle Canopy Lodge

Slow up for breakfast at 7:30. Then I worked on my grammar lesson until I couldn’t sit any longer, my cold makes my back ache. After lunch, Bob and I wandered the property, visiting many of the little nooks and crannies and finding the Toucans fun to watch.

Then we went on our tour. The guide took us up a back road along the edge of the crater where we picked up whichever bird happened to be in the area. When we returned, I took pictures of some of the many pleasant surprises on the property. Bob learned a bit about the Aristide family that owns the property and when the children quit using it, they turned it into a really excellent little resort. We had drinks then joined a new couple from Toronto and the New York couple for dinner and shared stories about whatever.

Birds:

Keel-billed Toucan,  Collared Aricari, Violet-crowned Wood Nymph, Clay-colored Thrush, Rufous-tailed Hummingbird, Common Tody Flycatcher, Boat-billed Flycatcher, Tropical Kingbird, Garden Emerald Hummingbird, Long-billed Starthroat, Black-chested Jay, Lineated Woodpecker, Rufous and White Wren, Rufous-breasted Wren, Rufous-crowned Warbler, Squirrel Cuckoo, White-winged Becard, Bat Falcon, Red-crowned Woodpecker, Tennessee Warbler, Blue-crowned MotMot now called a Whooping Motmot, Thick-billed Euphonia, Cattle Egret

 

Panam Trip Day Eight: El Valle Canopy Lodge

We wake, watch the birds at the feeder and rush down for breakfast at 7:30. Then we while away time writing and with my grammar class assignment. Bob showers and fights the cold water—I skip. We make it to the church in time for the 9:00 service. The music is provided by a band of guitars, drummer and acoustics, the singer sounded very pleasant. The service was entirely in Spanish. I could tell where we were based on our service at home but couldn’t understand much. I understood the priest’s sermon related to our chosen paths in life. I’m not really used to God being called Senor, but it is nice. The church was opened on the sides and back to let in the winds. The church grounds were planted with flowers and quite attractive. We realized too late we could have picked up the words to the service at the front door; we came in the side door.

After mass, we waited in line at their very popular banos, then found the youngsters buying ice cream bars and flavored ice cones instead of our more typical donuts.

Afterwards we parked across from the market and wandered through. There was a huge section devoted to plants for sale, another for vegetables for purchase, and a final section filled with artisan crafts. I bought a dolphin bracelet and a woven medallion.

At lunch, we shared our table from the two guides from the large group of I think New Zealanders who were here birding and had a nice chat. They let us talk primarily. After lunch, with an offering of chicken, vegetables and rice served in a soup, we passed time typing up our notes and writing. The afternoon was spent on our free guided tour –it was a real delight. We went to a side road and the guide called in a Tody Motmot. Then we moved down the road and wandered up and down spotting birds. The guide was very helpful, often putting the bird we were identifying in his scope for a closer look.

Dense forest found near Canopy Lodge, El Valle, Panama

Dinner found us sharing our table with a young couple from New York.

Birds:

Clay-colored Thrush, Chestnut-headed Oropendula, Blue-gray Tanager, Yellow-rumped Cacique, Palm Tanager, Red-crowned Woodpecker, Thick-billed Euphonia, Chestnut-sided Warbler, Crimson-backed Tanager, Great-tailed Grackle, Yellow-faced Grassquit, Lesser Goldfinch (f), Cocoa Woodcreeper, Tody Motmot, Long-billed Starthroat, Squirrel Cuckoo, Orange-chinned Parakeet, S. Roughwinged Swallow, Turkey Vulture, Gray-capped Flycatcher,  Western Wood Pewee, Boat-billed Flycatcher, Streaked Saltator, Rufous-capped Warbler

 

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A review of The Price of Guilt by Patrick M. Garry :: The Compulsive Reader :: A Haven for Book Lovers

A review of The Price of Guilt by Patrick M. Garry :: The Compulsive Reader :: A Haven for Book Lovers.

The story Patrick M. Garry tells is a story of how curiosity on the part of a group of young teens leads them to meddle in someone’s life with tragic results. This premise is well-rooted in life especially in political campaigns. The staging for the story has a small hometown appeal well-suited for the action. 

Panama Trip Day Seven: Panama City to El Valle Canopy Lodge

Today was a slow day, wake up, take a swim, eat lunch, then fetch the car at the airport. Turns out that the Hertz people only show up when scheduled so we had to wait fifteen minutes. During that time, the sweet lady from the tourism department offered us directions on how to get out of town and onto the C1 Panamerican Highway. She also told us how to get from Canopy Lodge, bypassing Panama City by taking the Puente Centenial instead of going into town. That sounded good. When we picked up the car, though, I found say a sign for Puente Centenial and directed Bob that way instead of following the buses to the Puente Americana. A quick U-turn provided the fix. The drive to El Valle was simple, only thing to watch for was a liquor store for Bob and the turn-off to El Valle.

We showed up and tried the internet, but found it only worked in the lounge area. Meanwhile, I found myself unable to hear anything. I’ve been joining Bob for drinks because lime in water is a sure safe way to have a drink without sugar. The gin acts like cough medicine and helps my achy muscles.

Canopy Lodge is a small place with very zen furnishings. Our room overlooks the bird feeders so we get to see plenty of action. Guides lead trips from the lodge—we received a free trip and will pay for one today. The meals are provided by the staff buffet style and dinner includes some really good wine.

 

A review of Curses and Wishes by Carl Adamshick :: The Compulsive Reader :: A Haven for Book Lovers

A review of Curses and Wishes by Carl Adamshick :: The Compulsive Reader :: A Haven for Book Lovers.

A review of Curses and Wishes by Carl Adamshick :: The Compulsive Reader :: A Haven for Book Lovers

Regardless of topic, from war, oyster bars, junk yards, to fluency, the reader never finds a word out of place, over frilly phrases or rigid format. Instead, the poet offers clear language, with specificity of detail and style that meets the needs of the poem. 

Magdalena Ball

Magdalena Ball.

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Panama Trip Day 6 : Punta Patino to Panama City

I woke, got dressed and on my way to the pier, I spotted a coati walking up the river. I passed on and sat on the benches on the beach beneath the canopy. Bob soon joined me and we both noticed how the crab walk marks entirely covered the sand, crisscrossing and crossing many times. I was amazed how busy the little creatures were and how much territory they covered in just one night.

Soon, all our luggage was loaded on board and we headed off to El Morro (the snout?) which is a volcanic rock island broken off from the main coastline and which hosts many birding colonies. We didn’t see many birds home for the morning—I assume most were off finding breakfast. We first spotted a Bare-throated Tiger heron, then spotted Magnificent Frigatebirds, some with the red balloon just beginning to show their interest in mating. Around the other side of El Morro, a few blue-footed boobies had just taken up residence. Then we were off on the two hour passage back to El Quimbo, where we picked up the bus after waiting an hour. On the passage, I learned that Punta Patino had been a logging camp that was turned into a nature conservancy and logging banned. Punta Patino is a huge area, we were in just a small at the tip of a cone-shaped wedge of land set aside as protection.

The ride by bus back to Panama City has us all betting on our arrival time. Rachel and Dave kept up nonstop chatter about their visits to many people they knew in many parts of the world, with others interspersing their comments every now and then. I added a few tales with Bob supplying the words I couldn’t remember. We stopped once and tried to buy cachuatches but no one new what they were. We settled for potato chips and peanut M&Ms and Bob had a beer. When we climbed into the bus after using the bano, we found that Juan had pulled rank inside, talked to a manager and managed to buy Minas which is the local name for peanuts.

The Country Inn and Suites Panama Canal looked very safe and quite wonderful and I felt entirely miserable and ready for a steak. We went immediately to dinner and for once, I joined Bob in having several gins—I was never more ready to crash in my entire life. I took more pseudophed and Tylenol and by ten o’clock was dead to the world until morning.

Birds:

Bare-throated Tiger Heron, Smoothed-billed Ani, Laughing Gull, Blue-footed Booby, Sandwich Tern, Royal Tern, Snowy Egret, White Ibis, Tricolored Heron, Neotropical Cormorant, Little Blue Heron, Black Vulture.

 

Birds:

Clay-colored Thrush, Chestnut-headed Oropendula, Blue-gray Tanager, Yellow-rumped Cacique, Palm Tanager, Red-crowned Woodpecker, Thick-billed Euphonia, Chestnut-sided Warbler, Crimson-backed Tanager, Great-tailed Grackle, Yellow-faced Grassquit, Lesser Goldfinch (f), Cocoa Woodcreeper, Tody Motmot, Long-billed Starthroat, Squirrel Cuckoo, Orange-chinned Parakeet, S. Roughwinged Swallow, Turkey Vulture, Gray-capped Flycatcher,  Western Wood Pewee, Boat-billed Flycatcher, Streaked Saltator, Rufous-capped Warbler, Yellow-backed Oriole

Insect: Praying Mantis--two leaves connected? One to look up when I get home.

 

Panama Trip Day 5: Punta Pinato

Today was a good day despite missing out on the Harpy Eagle. We woke up late, dressed, ate breakfast leisurely, donned out gear and started out on a slow stroll.

During breakfast, the man of the house cleaned the upstairs, sweeping it thoroughly. When he reached a spot on the floorboards, I heard a clunk and went to look. There was a gecko on the floor—brown and black speckled with cool little buttons on his feet. He climbed up the screen and up headed toward the ceiling and on our return he was just plain gone.

 We first checked out the cabins, then the orchards, then the marshes, picking up thirty+ birds, 7-8 which were lifers. Before we took the long walk up the cliff, we rested by the beach to cool off.

Mangrove swamp at Punta Patino

Gyorgy, the cook, corrects Bob’s Spanish upon his request.

Then we went to chicken and rice and pineapple for lunch. Afterwards, the plan was going to be that I would write and Bob shower and write in his journal. Then a beach walk. Discovering his bird book missing, Bob woke me in the hammock and said no more writing, I need my bird book (he was actually going to go off without me). So I got into my swimsuit and said let’s do the beach hike. We walked straight down and found it on the bench where we had left it.

So then we took an hour and a half walk up the coast and back, spotting a few seabirds including a collared plover (potential lifer). The sand is black and slips below your feet if in the water and sticks and clings like weights if up the shore. Too far up the shore, the sand is burning hot from the sun. We sat and watched beach critters—probable crab of some sort, spiral out of their hole and leave tracks in the sand. Other crabs and jumped out of their hole as fast as can be, then spying us, zipped back.  The shore was much different from last night when  all sorts of hermit crabs littered the shore, all safely protected from predators, supposedly. Instead of the hermit crabs in their snail shells, today we had holes with dirt flung out in a scattering of balls. One species, thin and black felt secure without snail shells but hustled away from us.

On our return, we arrived just in time to see the property’s pet jaguarondi climb down a tree and dash away. What a beautiful black kitty he is, not that I would challenge his claws. Although only about 4’ long (not counting head and tail, and 3’ tall), he seemed more interested in departure then taking on the local dog.

The only bad part of the day will be the return of the crew and the fact I had to take two pseudophed for a clogged nose, and worse, the gunk is sitting at the back of my throat so I worry that I am getting what the woman and her daughter who were coughing and taking medicine at the airport had. I am praying it is allergies from the profusion of blooms, but thinking probably not from the slow way my mind and body are reacting.

Birds spotted:  Osprey, Willet, Collared Plover, Common Black Hawk, Northern Waterthrush, Blue-gray Tanager, Solitary Sandpiper, Red-crowned Woodpecker, Palm Tanager, Lance-tailed Manakin, Orange-chinned Parakeet, Lesser Nighthawk, Gray-headed Chachalaca, Yellow-crowned Night Heron, Gray-necked Wood-Rail,  White Ibis, Tricolored Heron, Brown Pelican, Buff-breasted Wren, White-tipped Dove, Western Slaty-Antshrike, Turkey Vulture, Streaked Flycatcher, Panama Flycatcher, Wood Stork, Humboldt’s Sapphire Hummingbird, Blue-throated Goldentail, Crested Oropendula, Great Kiskadee, Lesser Kiskadee, Snowy Egret, Little Blue Heron, Spotted Sandpiper, Magnificent Frigatebird

Mammals spotted: Variegated Squirrel, Gray-phase Jaguarundi, Red-tail squirrel

Lizards spotted: black monitor with a narrow neck, triangular face, and white stripe down his neck, gecko, Bob spotted a lizard with red head and black body, Caiman

 

 

Panama Trip Day Four: Punta Patino

Woke up having forgot my patch; fell asleep trying to write, then tossed-and-turned, hopping twin beds, first Bob’s then mine with the air conditioner turned up. We figured we slept maybe 6 hours, after a 4 hour night, 4 hour night, 4 hour night. But 6 is better. Morning hike until lunch led us down through the woods, especially looking for Manakins. The guide was always well off in front talking with several of the people who really knew the birds of the area. I got irritated since the one’s up front hogged the front of the birding and then talked loudly and scared off the bird and wouldn’t allow anyone in for a view. If I spotted anything, they’d come crashing over pushing us out of the way. I hate competitive birding—it’s not good for the birds. The Anton Expedition Guide did point out a few birds with his laser pointer—this is a cool tool for telling people where to look. Deep in the forest, sometimes the only view was about a foot wide. 

The Anton Expedition Guide then started up about how impossible it was to see the Harpy Eagle and then telling us how fast he planned to walk, up and down ten+ 300 foot hills, over ten miles to and from, and how there would be no waiting or taking pictures or taking a breather. He made me feel extremely unwelcome.  We decided to skip the Harpy Eagle outing for the next day.

I couldn’t help feeling cheated by the whole place—they promised a beach side cabin, we’re up 300 ft through grounds that require protection against ticks—not exactly the walk out your cabin door to a stroll on the beach promised. Then they cancelled our night in Mogrebe and the outing to see the seabird colony (now rescheduled to make the day away from here longer).  

Hard to believe anyone can be crabby with Trogon's following you around the property at Punta Patino.

So as usual, I am anti-social and took a nap which made me far less crabby. Later, Bob and I walked down to the beach and shed about 20 degrees of heat and found company with the crabs who are cute as can be.

Birding

Black-chested Jay, Black-and-White Warbler, White-whiskered Puffbird, Thick-billed Euphonia, Red-Throated Caracara, Linneated Woodpecker, Ruddy-tailed Flycatcher, Acadian Flycatcher, Blacktailed Trogon, Purple-throated Fruitcrow, Yellow-rumped Cacique, Lesser Kiskadee, Panama Flycatcher, Yellow-crowned Euphonia, Turkey Vulture, Grey-cheeked Nunlet, Crested Oropendula, Orange-crowned Oriole, Red-capped Woodpecker, Wood Stork, Smooth-billed Ani, Palm Tanager, White Ibis, Brown Pelican, Black Vulture 

 

Panama Trip Day Three: Panama City to Punta Patino

Wake up at 4:00 was painful since even though we tried to go to bed early, we were both up at midnight. Bob gave me plenty of time to do my yoga exercises and finally my body seems to be settling outPacking was easily accomplished. Our pickup by Ancon expeditions was timely, our driver Eric was good-humored, helpful, and got us all the way to the boat with no problems. In our group is Juan, Issa, Carlos, Rachel, Dave and us. We’re a friendly bunch dedicated to birding.

Breakfast was a trial to me, I didn’t expect to have to order food and not really hungry then rejected the meal I ordered because I asked for tortilla and got corn cakes instead of the tortilla look alike which is more like fry bread and called olhabra by sound but maybe not spelled right. It is dough made of flour, salt, water and deep fried. I tried for agua but was offered unasked for coffee, then when asked again, received tea. Luckily, Bob order botille de agua, and that was delivered. Good thing because I finished it all. And my water bottle full, and some of Bob’s.

The drive through Darien was mostly agricultural land with many inspection stops. The cattle rangers have a breed obviously with some sort of mix with Brahmin beef. The fencing is done in a cool manner—live trees with barb wire stapled to them. Many places, even small towns, a show of firecrackers has declared this still to be Carnivale.  Music is played from speakers to keep areas bopping.

The drive was almost interminable and I found myself catnapping occasionally since the scenery was mostly unchanging. The Panamanians build in odd places and don’t seem to have a planning grid which they use. Sometimes homes are built with squared off houses, mostly modern places, but many are build following the line of coast, gully or hillside. Hunks of gravel from the roadside get dug up, with no sign of ownership but there are commercial gravel pits. The homes have the Spanish style with wrought iron over doors and or windows, red tiled roofs or metal, and cement block construction in many places. In some town, one guy is in charge of being the housing goods distributor. Many people seem unsure which style home they like, some with three on the same property, one built with thatched roof, one build modern and cinderblock and one built with sheet metal roofs. Most people look like they prefer sleeping in hammocks out of doors and cooking on outside barbecues. The people have all been very friendly. Grocery stores are widely used. Garbage is trouble.

Our boat trip goes down a large mangrove-fronted river to the ocean then in and around a bunch of islands until we reach Punta Patino.

Our Cottages at Punta Patino

 

Deibyus is our guide here at Punta Patino.

Birds:

Yellow-crowned Euphonia, Osprey, Blue Gray Tanager, Broad-winged Hawk, Black-tailed Trogon, Band-rumped Swift, Keel-billed Toucan, Crested Oropendula, Chestnut-headed Oropendula, Lesser-swallow-tailed Swift, Prothonotary Warbler, Great Kiskadee, Spotted Sandpiper, Greyheaded Chachalaca, Cattle Egret, Yellow-headed Caracara, Great-tailed Grackle, Black Vulture, Smooth-billed Ani, Tropical Kingbird, Tropical Mockingbird, Turkey Vulture, Magnificent Frigatebird, Great Egret, Brown Pelican, White Ibis, Red Crowned Woodpecker, Black-chested Jay

 

Chicken, goat, cow, dog, horse, and I saw many White Muscovy Domestic Ducks