Panama Birding Links

This post is to provide links to web sites offering good birding opportunities in Panama. Sally and I have visited these locations (like Canopy Tower, above), or used the services of these providers (like Victor Emanuel Nature Tours), and have been very pleased with them.

Canopy Tower (Gamboa), Canopy Lodge (El Valle), Canopy Camp (the Darien)
http://www.canopytower.com/

Los Quetzales Ecolodge (Chirqui Highlands)   http://www.losquetzales.com/ 

Victor Emanuel Nature Tours (aka VENT)  http://www.ventbird.com/

Birding and Nature Tour Companies

I promised to post this list of international tour providers Sally and I have used, and we can recommend all of them. Their charges for a comparable destination will vary between companies, but charges are generally commensurate with what you get, namely degree of comfort, number of participants per guide (fewer is better), guide quality, etc.

I have listed some of the countries we visited with each tour company. The list is ordered by approximate total time we have spent traveling with each company, and the underlined name is a link to their web site.

Rockjumper Birding Tours - Madagascar, Namibia, Botswana and Zambia,  Papua New Guinea, India and Bhutan, UAE and Oman

Victor Emanuel Nature Tours (VENT) - Madagascar (with Rockjumper), Panama, Peru

Cheeseman's Ecology Safaris - Antarctica and Argentina (Patagonia and Iguazu Falls), Dominican Republic (snorkeling with Humpback Whales)

Alvaro's Adventures - Chile and Argentina (Birds and Wine)

Wild Side Nature Tours - Colorado (prairie chickens)

Linblad-National Geographic - Baja and Gulf of Mexico

Searcher Natural History Tours -Pacific Ocean pelagic birding, Baja whale watching

We have also used many local tour companies in locations such as the Galapagos, Guatemala, Belize and Costa Rica. They are often preferred for a small group and custom tour. Many of these local tour companies can be found through the larger companies, as the larger companies often use them as the local guides to assist with their tours.