Tranquilo Bay Eco Adventure Lodge nestles inside the rainforest overlooking the Caribbean Sea and the beautiful Panamanian Jungle. With a central location within the archipelago of Bocas del Toro, Tranquilo Bay allows you to explore some of the most biologically diverse areas of Panama and Central America. Bocas del Toro, Panama includes an archipelago of some 68 tropical islands which are excellent for birding. The province of Bocas del Toro hosts two national parks, one of which is a world heritage site and two protected cloud forests.
In western Panama the Caribbean Slope of the Talamanca mountain range, Tranquilo Bay’s back yard, plunges some 11,000 feet from the high alpine forest of La Amistad National Park into the lowland rainforests bordering the Caribbean Sea, in a span of less than 40 miles. Within the area nearly 500 species of birds can be found. This extreme biodiversity and high level of endemic species is due to abrupt changes in altitudinal zones and extreme geographic features creating many distinct ecosystems, as well as, migratory corridors.
Tranquilo Bay is located on 100 pristine acres, adjacent to Bastimentos National Marine Park, amongst the convergence of 3 distinct ecosystems. This creates an extremely diverse and unique wildlife observation site where flora and fauna overlap. In a week it is possible to identify over 100 species of birds without leaving the property. There are several elevated porches throughout the facility, creating an incredible eye-level view. While birding onsite you might also encounter white-faced capuchin monkeys, night monkeys, two and three toed sloths, iguanas, caiman, butterflies, a variety of frogs and lizards, and within the canopy a collage of rain forest hardwood and fruit trees, lianas, mangroves, ferns, orchids and cycads.
From your cabana, on the rainforests edge overlooking the Caribbean Sea, wake to the morning call of hundreds of Red-lored Amazon parrots, the beautiful voice of flocks of Montezuma Oropendolas, and the mysterious sounds of the Green Ibis on the wing. Take coffee on your private elevated veranda as humming birds zip by, raptors hunt for their morning meal and Brown Pelicans share a few sardines with the magnificent frigates, just beyond the mangrove forest. Hundreds of trees, bushes, and flowering plants have been strategically blended throughout the living areas to attract a diverse variety of birds without the use of feeders.
PANAMA, CANOPY TOWER ECOLODGE AND NATURE OBSERVATORY
"Canopy Tower... is simply one of the best places in the world to visit if you're a bird watcher". Sanjida O'Connell, The Guardian Saturday March 29, 2003Read the full article
“...without doubt, Canopy Tower is among my top sites on earth for watching birds" Jonathan Elphick, July 2003
An extraordinary birding lodge built at canopy level in a remodeled USAF radar tower. Considered one of the top birding lodges in the world, it is located only 45 minutes from the international airport in the heart of Soberania National Park. You will be birding in a quality forest within 2 hours of disembarking from the airplane. Come and see canopy specialties, like Blue Cotingas and Green Shrike-Vireos, at eye level and wake up every morning to a dawn chorus outside your window of forest falcons, trogons, tinamous and motmots. Click here for the Latest Surfbirds Trip Report and species list for this area andClick here for another Surfbirds Trip Report from the Canopy Tower
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