A long with a 330-kilometer border, Costa Rica and Panama share about 800 species of birds. But unlike Costa Rica, our neighbor to the south is not exactly renowned as a birders’ paradise. Panama’s ...

Panama may be a small country, but it’s home to more than 1,000 species of birds, both endemic and migratory, making it one of the best places in Central America for bird-watching. In fact, the ...

Panama may be a small country, but it’s home to more than 1,000 species of birds, both endemic and migratory, making it one of the best places in the region for birdwatching. In fact, the country’s ...

We had our first glimpse of the blue cotinga, an electric blue bird, at 7:10 in the morning. We were standing on the top deck of a former U.S. military radar tower built years ago to guard the Panama ...

Research teams studying bats and birds gather in Panama’s Soberanía National Park to celebrate the launch of a long-term census of bats designed to complement the bird census, which will celebrate its ...

Theodore Roosevelt, soldier, author and proto-ecotourist, saw numerous possibilities here. So when he inherited the presidency in 1901, he threw his weight behind plans for a canal. Ninety-nine years ...