FINCA HARTMAN
PANAMA
SANT CLARA (Compass)
Lat:00o00´S/00o00´W ha topography msl
Protected/registered status
Best Time for visit (23rd February, 2005)
Birding Site Guide
This is a shade coffee plantation just an hour by regular buses from Volcan. There are several places to stay and eat in Volcan. We stayed at Oasis Place ($15 for a double). The first bus towards Rio Sereno (at the Panamanian border) leaves at 6.30am. The Hartman Family are very friendly towards birdwatchers. They charge a $10 fee for birding the finca and provide some drinks. They also have a small museum and shop selling coffee. There is a trail that leads through the coffee plantations and also through a small area of woodland. I didn't see my target species, the Turquoise Cotinga although it is readily seen here and was apparently seen the previous day by a group of American birders. grrr... I saw 60 species including 3 lifers.
Species seen
- Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis
- Black Vulture Coragyps atratus
- Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
- Swallow-tailed Kite Elanoides forficatus
- Sharp-shinned Hawk ? Accipiter striatus
- Roadside Hawk Buteo magnirostris
- Barred Forest-Falcon h? Micrastur ruficollis
- Spotted Wood-Quail Odontophorus guttatus
- Ruddy Ground-Dove Columbina talpacoti
- White-tipped Dove Leptotila verreauxi
- Crimson-fronted Parakeet ? Aratinga finschi
- Vaux's Swift ? Chaetura vauxi
- Green Hermit Phaethornis guy
- Rufous-tailed Hummingbird Amazilia tzacatl
- Long-billed Starthroat Heliomaster longirostris
- Blue-crowned Motmot Momotus momota
- Red-crowned Woodpecker Melanerpes rubricapillus
- Wedge-billed Woodcreeper Glyphorynchus spirurus
- Streak-headed Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes souleyetii
- White-ruffed Manakin Corapipo altera
- Greenish Elaenia Myiopagis viridicata
- Yellow-bellied Elaenia Elaenia flavogaster
- Paltry Tyrannulet Zimmerius vilissimus
- Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Empidonax flaviventris
- Dusky-capped Flycatcher Myiarchus tuberculifer
- Boat-billed Flycatcher Megarynchus pitangua
- Social Flycatcher Myiozetetes similis
- Gray-capped Flycatcher Myiozetetes granadensis
- Piratic Flycatcher Legatus leucophaius
- Tropical Kingbird Tyrannus melancholicus
- Rose-throated Becard Pachyramphus aglaiae
- Masked Tityra Tityra semifasciata
- Blue-and-white Swallow Pygochelidon cyanoleuca
- Rufous-breasted Wren h Thryothorus rutilus
- Clay-colored Robin Turdus grayi
- White-throated Thrush Turdus assimilis
- Yellow-throated Vireo Vireo flavifrons
- Philadelphia Vireo Vireo philadelphicus
- Tennessee Warbler Vermivora peregrina
- Tropical Parula Parula pitiayumi
- Chestnut-sided Warbler Dendroica pensylvanica
- Black-and-white Warbler Mniotilta varia
- Wilson's Warbler Wilsonia pusilla
- Slate-throated Redstart Myioborus miniatus
- Bananaquit Coereba flaveola
- Summer Tanager Piranga rubra
- Flame-colored Tanager Piranga bidentata
- Passerini's Tanager Ramphocelus passerinii
- Blue-gray Tanager Thraupis episcopus
- Palm Tanager Thraupis palmarum
- Thick-billed Euphonia Euphonia laniirostris
- Silver-throated Tanager Tangara icterocephala
- Speckled Tanager Tangara guttata
- Bay-headed Tanager Tangara gyrola
- Golden-hooded Tanager Tangara larvata
- Scarlet-thighed Dacnis Dacnis venusta
- Variable Seedeater Sporophila corvina
- Yellow-faced Grassquit Tiaris olivacea
- Rufous-collared Sparrow Zonotrichia capensis
- Buff-throated Saltator ? Saltator maximus
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak Pheucticus ludovicianus
Other Fauna
A total of -- species of mammals.
There are -- recorded species of amphibians and reptiles.
Flora
Author: Charles Hesse
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