RANCHO LA RINCONADA
PANAMA
BUENOS AIRES (near), CHILIBRE (Compass)
Lat:00o00´S/00o00´W ha topography msl
Protected/registered status
Best Time for visit (19 & 23rd March, 2005)
Birding Site Guide
This ranch belongs to a family friend who let us stay there for a few days. Chilibre can be reached from Panama by direct bus from the terminal. Get off at a stop called Buenos Aires from where a minibus or taxi can be taken to the ranch. There was a small patch of forest on the ranch with some good birds and also tamarins were seen. The field with scattered trees also had a good selection of open country birds I saw 58 species including 8 lifers.
Species seen
- Little Tinamou h Crypturellus soui
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis
- Black Vulture Coragyps atratus
- Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
- White-tailed Kite Elanus leucurus
- Broad-winged Hawk ? Buteo platypterus
- American Kestrel Falco sparverius
- Common Ground-Dove Columbina passerina
- White-tipped Dove Leptotila verreauxi
- Orange-chinned Parakeet Brotogeris jugularis
- Blue-headed Parrot Pionus menstruus
- Red-lored Parrot Amazona autumnalis
- Mangrove Cuckoo ? Coccyzus minor
- Squirrel Cuckoo Piaya cayana
- Greater Ani Crotophaga major
- Smooth-billed Ani Crotophaga ani
- Striped Cuckoo h Tapera naevia
- Pauraque Nyctidromus albicollis
- Rufous-tailed Hummingbird Amazilia tzacatl
- Red-crowned Woodpecker Melanerpes rubricapillus
- Lineated Woodpecker Dryocopus lineatus
- Buff-throated Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus guttatus
- Western Slaty-Antshrike Thamnophilus atrinucha
- White-bellied Antbird Myrmeciza longipes
- Golden-collared Manakin ? Manacus vitellinus
- Southern Beardless-Tyrannulet Camptostoma obsoletum
- Pale-eyed Pygmy-Tyrant Lophotriccus pilaris
- Common Tody-Flycatcher Todirostrum cinereum
- Panama Flycatcher Myiarchus panamensis
- Great Kiskadee Pitangus sulphuratus
- Social Flycatcher Myiozetetes similis
- Streaked Flycatcher Myiodynastes maculatus
- Tropical Kingbird Tyrannus melancholicus
- White-winged Becard Pachyramphus polychopterus
- Gray-breasted Martin Progne chalybea
- Southern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx ruficollis
- House Wren Troglodytes aedon
- Clay-colored Robin Turdus grayi
- Tawny-faced Gnatwren Microbates cinereiventris
- Long-billed Gnatwren Ramphocaenus melanurus
- Yellow-green Vireo Vireo flavoviridis
- Scrub Greenlet ? Hylophilus flavipes
- Golden-fronted Greenlet Hylophilus aurantiifrons
- Yellow Warbler Dendroica petechia
- Rufous-capped Warbler Basileuterus rufifrons
- Rosy Thrush-Tanager Rhodinocichla rosea
- White-shouldered Tanager Tachyphonus luctuosus
- Red-throated Ant-Tanager Habia fuscicauda
- Scarlet Tanager Piranga olivacea
- Summer Tanager Piranga rubra
- Crimson-backed Tanager Ramphocelus dimidiatus
- Blue-gray Tanager Thraupis episcopus
- Palm Tanager Thraupis palmarum
- Blue-black Grassquit Volatinia jacarina
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak Pheucticus ludovicianus
- Great-tailed Grackle Quiscalus mexicanus
- Yellow-backed Oriole ? Icterus chrysater
Other Fauna
A total of -- species of mammals.
There are -- recorded species of amphibians and reptiles.
Flora
Author: Charles Hesse
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