Table of Contents

Map of Panama Introduction Anatomical Features Adult Vultures and Raptors in Flight Species Accounts and Illustrations Tinamous Ducks Curassows, Chachalacas & Guans Quails Grebes Shearwaters & Petrels Storm-Petrels Tropicbirds Boobies & Gannets Pelicans Albatrosses Cormorants Darters Frigatebirds Herons & Egrets Storks Ibises & Spoonbills New World Vultures Hawks, Eagles & Kites Falcons & Caracaras Sunbittern Rails, Gallinules & Coots Finfoots Limpkin Plovers & Lapwings Oystercatchers Stilts & Avocats Jacanas Sandpipers & Allies Gulls, Terns & Skimmers Skuas & Jaegers Pigeons & Doves Parrots Cuckoos Barn Owls Typical Owls Nightjars Potoos Oilbird Swifts Hummingbirds Trogons Motmots Kingfishers Puffbirds Jacamars Barbets & Toucans Woodpeckers Ovenbirds & Woodcreepers Typical Antbirds Antthrushes Gnateaters Antpittas Tapaculos Broadbills Tryant Flycatchers Becards, Tityra & Others Cotingas Manakins Vireos Sharpbill Crows & Jays Swallows Donocobins Wrens Dippers Gnatwrens & Gnatcatchers Thrushes Mockingbirds & Allies Pipis & Wagtails Waxwings Silky-flycatchers Wood-Warblers Tanagers Bananaquit Saltators Seedeaters, Finches & Sparrows Grosbeaks, Buntings & Allies Old World Sparrows New World Orioles & Blackbirds Goldfinches & Euphonias Acknowledgments Appendix: Additional Species Glossary Checklist of the Birds of Panama Index of Common and Scientific Names About the Author and Illustrator

About the Author

Robert Dean is an avid birder and natural history illustrator.He is the illustrator of Birds of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao: A Site and Field Guide,The Birds of Costa Rica: A Field Guide, The Birds of Panama: A Field Guide, and The Wildlife of Costa Rica: A Field Guide, all from Cornell.

Reviews

"Angehr and Dean have created an accurate, portable guide that will prove very useful to birders and casual observers wishing to savor the avian diversity of Panama."-Choice (August 2011)