Panama Part 2: The Great Divide
My trip to Panama this September was 9 days total, which is a decent length for a birding trip. However, most of those 9 days were spent in the Bocas del Toro Archipelago in the vicinity of our home base, Tranquilo Bay. That was just how I wanted it, since it allowed for birding at a relaxed pace and looking for various non-bird things like mammals, herps, moths, and fish. However, it did limit the number of habitats we visited, and thus the potential bird list for the trip. There were only two days spent birding outside of Bocas del Toro: our final day in Panama City, which I'll get to in my next post, and our second full day, which was spent on the Panamanian mainland exploring the highlands around the Continental Divide. For those who've never bothered to look at a map before, the Isthmus of Panama is the narrowest point in the Americas aside from the tip of South America. (Fun geography factoid: it's also the only place in the world where the Atlantic Ocean lies due...