Birds of Panama

List of Common Birds Found in Panama

Native Birds

• Bananaquit        
• Bare-throated Tiger Heron
• Barred Hawk
• Bay-breasted Warbler
• Bay-headed Tanager
• Bay Wren
• Black-bellied Hummingbird
• Black-bellied Wren
• Black-breasted Puffbird
• Black-capped Pygmy Tyrant
• Black-cheeked Woodpecker
• Black-chested Jay
• Black-crowned Antpitta
• Black-faced Antthrush
• Black-headed Tody-flycatcher
• Black-hooded Antshrike
• Black-striped Woodcreeper
• Black-tailed Flycatcher
• Black Vulture        
• Blue-black Grosbeak
• Blue-chested Hummingbird
• Blue Cotinga
• Blue-crowned Chlorophonia
• Blue-crowned Manakin
• Blue-crowned Motmot
• Blue Dacnis
• Blue-gray Tanager 
• Blue-throated Toucanet
• Broad-billed Motmot
• Brown-hooded Parrot
• Brown Pelican
• Buff-breasted Wren
• Buff-rumped Warbler
• Buff-throated Saltator
• Capped Heron
• Chestnut-mandibled Toucan
• Choco Toucan
• Cinnamon Woodpecker
• Clay-colored Thrush       
• Collared Aracari
• Collared Plover
• Crimson-backed Tanager
• Crimson-fronted Parakeet
• Double-toothed Kite
• Dusky-capped Flycatcher
• Fasciated Antshrike
• Flame-rumped Tanager
• Fulvous-vented Euphonia
• Golden-collared Manakin
• Golden-fronted Greenlet
• Golden-hooded Tanager
• Golden-naped Woodpecker
• Gray-breasted Martin        
• Gray-cowled Wood-rail
• Gray-headed Chacalaca
• Great Curassow
• Great Egret
• Great Kiskadee
• Great-tailed Grackle        
• Great Tinamou
• Green Ibis
• Green Shrike-vireo
• Harpy Eagle
• House Sparrow        
• House Wren        
• Inca Dove
• Keel-billed Toucan
• Lanceolated Monklet
• Lance-tailed Manakin
• Lesson’s Motmot
• Long-tailed Tyrant
• Northern Bentbill
• Ocellated Antbird
• Olivaceous Flatbill
• Olive-striped Flycatcher
• Orange-chinned Parakeet        
• Pale-vented Pigeon
• Pale-vented Thrush
• Purple-crowned Fairy
• Purple-throated Fruitcrow
• Red-crowned Woodpecker        
• Red-legged Honeycreeper
• Red-lored Amazon
• Resplendent Quetzal
• Riverside Wren
• Roadside Hawk               
• Rosy Thrush-tanager
• Ruddy-breasted Seedeater        
• Ruddy Ground Dove 
• Ruddy Treerunner
• Rufous-and-white Wren
• Rufous-crested Coquette
• Rufous Motmot
• Rufous Piha
• Rufous-tailed Hummingbird
• Rufous-tailed Jacamar
• Rufous-vented Ground-cuckoo
• Rufous-winged Tanager
• Sapayoa
• Scaled Antpitta
• Scaled Pigeon
• Scarlet Macaw
• Scarlet-rumped Cacique
• Silver-throated Tanager
• Slaty-tailed Trogon
• Snowcap
• Snowy-bellied Hummingbird
• Social Flycatcher
• Speckled Mourner
• Spectacled Owl
• Spectacled Parrotlet
• Spot-breasted Woodpecker
• Spot-crowned Antvireo
• Spot-crowned Barbet
• Spot-crowned Euphonia
• Stripe-cheeked Woodpecker
• Stripe-throated Hermit
• Tawny-crested Tanager
• Tawny-faced Gnatwren
• Thick-billed Euphonia
• Three-wattled Bellbird
• Tody Motmot
• Tropical Kingbird         
• Tropical Mockingbird 
• Turkey Vulture
• Veraguan Mango
• Vermilion Flycatcher 
• Violet-bellied Hummingbird
• Violet-crowned Woodnymph
• Violet-headed Hummingbird
• White-bellied Antbird
• White Hawk
• White-necked Puffbird
• White-ruffed Manakin
• White-shouldered Antshrike
• White-shouldered Tanager
• White-tailed Trogon
• White-thighed Swallow
• White-throated Crake
• White-tipped Dove
• White-tipped Sicklebill
• White-vented Euphonia
• White-vented Plumeleteer
• White-winged Dove
• Yellow-crowned Euphonia
• Yellow-faced Grassquit        
• Yellow-green Vireo
• Yellow-headed Caracara
• Yellow-throated Toucan
• Yellow Warbler

Non-native Birds

• Eurasian Collared-dove
• European Starling
• House Sparrow
• Rock Pigeon
• Saffron Finch
• Tricolored Munia

Panama is a birdwatcher’s paradise, with some notable sites, including Soberanía National Park, Gamboa Rainforest Reserve, and Altos de Campana National Park. The peak birding season in Panama typically coincides with the dry season, considered the best time for birdwatching.