Guide for Panama birds
Hola Peter,
Glad you will be visiting this tropical paradise we call home.
The standard field guide for birding in Panama is Ridgely and Gwynne´s
"A Guide to the Birds of Panama" (1992)
The information they provide on the Panamanian distribution of each species and notes on telling similar species apart is quite helpful.
On the other hand this book only illustrates a few of the more than 972 different species currently reported for Panama, it especially lacks illustration for most of the more than 120 migrant species, and contains only black drawings for many other species.
I have recently acquired a book just published by Princeton called
"Birds of Mexico and Central America" by Ber van Perlo.
Even though the illustrations are small and are not all that much detailed, they do portray every single bird from Mexico to Panama, including all endemic birds, all warblers, raptors both perched and in flight, as well as a couple of plumage variations.
All of these combined with a compact size, equate to a extremely useful reference in the field.
Hope you find this information interesting, and please don´t hesitate contacting us if you shall have any additional inquiries about birding in Panama.
Warm regards,
Guido
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Guido C. Berguido
Biologist - Operations Manager
Advantage Tours Panama
"Adventures in nature with the local Advantage"
P.O. Box 0801-00051
Republic of Panama
Tel. 011-507-6676-2466
fax: 011-507-221-9246
e.mail:
[email protected]
web:
www.advantagepanama.com
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