Panama · Darién Province
Yaviza wetlands
394 species and 24,458 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: September, with up to 249 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Smooth-billed AniCrotophaga ani
Pale-vented PigeonPatagioenas cayennensis
Yellow-headed CaracaraDaptrius chimachima
Ruddy Ground DoveColumbina talpacoti
Great EgretArdea alba
Great KiskadeePitangus sulphuratus
Black VultureCoragyps atratus
Western Cattle EgretArdea ibis
Little Blue HeronEgretta caerulea
Mangrove WarblerSetophaga petechia
Wattled JacanaJacana jacana
Blue-black GrassquitVolatinia jacarina
Red-lored AmazonAmazona autumnalis
Tropical KingbirdTyrannus melancholicusSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Camino a El Salto13 km417 species
- Nuevo Vigía Emberá18 km378 species
- Canopy Camp25 km440 species
All 394 species recorded here
- Smooth-billed Ani Crotophaga ani
- Ruddy Ground Dove Columbina talpacoti
- Wattled Jacana Jacana jacana
- Pale-vented Pigeon Patagioenas cayennensis
- Yellow-headed Caracara Daptrius chimachima
- Tropical Kingbird Tyrannus melancholicus
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Black Vulture Coragyps atratus
- Ruddy-breasted Seedeater Sporophila minuta
- Pied Water Tyrant Fluvicola pica
- Blue-black Grassquit Volatinia jacarina
- Rusty-margined Flycatcher Myiozetetes cayanensis
- Greater Ani Crotophaga major
- Variable Seedeater Sporophila corvina
- Fork-tailed Flycatcher Tyrannus savana
- Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
- Striped Cuckoo Tapera naevia
- Great Kiskadee Pitangus sulphuratus
- Purple Gallinule Porphyrio martinica
- Blue-grey Tanager Thraupis episcopus
- Little Blue Heron Egretta caerulea
- Spot-breasted Woodpecker Colaptes punctigula
- Red-lored Amazon Amazona autumnalis
- Mangrove Warbler Setophaga petechia
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Roadside Hawk Rupornis magnirostris
- Southern Lapwing Vanellus chilensis
- White-tipped Dove Leptotila verreauxi
- Yellow-bellied Elaenia Elaenia flavogaster
- Great-tailed Grackle Quiscalus mexicanus
- Orange-chinned Parakeet Brotogeris jugularis
- Crimson-backed Tanager Ramphocelus dimidiatus
- Red-crowned Woodpecker Melanerpes rubricapillus
- Blue-headed Parrot Pionus menstruus
- Red-breasted Meadowlark Leistes militaris
- Black-bellied Whistling Duck Dendrocygna autumnalis
- Grey-breasted Martin Progne chalybea
- White-throated Crake Laterallus albigularis
- Grey-breasted Crake Laterallus exilis
- Lesser Kiskadee Philohydor lictor
- Striated Heron Butorides striata
- Shiny Cowbird Molothrus bonariensis
- Yellow-tailed Oriole Icterus mesomelas
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Lineated Woodpecker Dryocopus lineatus
- Giant Cowbird Molothrus oryzivorus
- Black-throated Mango Anthracothorax nigricollis
- Yellow-crowned Euphonia Euphonia luteicapilla
- Southern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx ruficollis
- Rufescent Tiger Heron Tigrisoma lineatum
- Crested Oropendola Psarocolius decumanus
- Wood Stork Mycteria americana
- Bananaquit Coereba flaveola
- Northern House Wren Troglodytes aedon
- Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture Cathartes burrovianus
- Yellow-hooded Blackbird Chrysomus icterocephalus
- Cocoi Heron Ardea cocoi
- Muscovy Duck Cairina moschata
- Green Heron Butorides virescens
- Ringed Kingfisher Megaceryle torquata
- Palm Tanager Thraupis palmarum
- Little Tinamou Crypturellus soui
- Buff-breasted Wren Cantorchilus leucotis
- Savanna Hawk Buteogallus meridionalis
- Streaked Flycatcher Myiodynastes maculatus
- Black-capped Donacobius Donacobius atricapilla
- Snowy Egret Egretta thula
- Laughing Falcon Herpetotheres cachinnans
- Great Antshrike Taraba major
- Yellow-crowned Tyrannulet Tyrannulus elatus
- Thick-billed Euphonia Euphonia laniirostris
- Orchard Oriole Icterus spurius
- Limpkin Aramus guarauna
- Ochre-lored Flatbill Tolmomyias flaviventris
- Grey-lined Hawk Buteo nitidus
- Thick-billed Seed Finch Sporophila funerea
- Mealy Amazon Amazona farinosa
- Clay-colored Thrush Turdus grayi
- Olive-grey Saltator Saltator olivascens
- Yellow-rumped Cacique Cacicus cela
- Black Oropendola Psarocolius guatimozinus
- Willow Flycatcher Empidonax traillii
- Carib Grackle Quiscalus lugubris
- Grey-headed Chachalaca Ortalis cinereiceps
- Crested Caracara Caracara plancus
- Cinnamon Becard Pachyramphus cinnamomeus
- Sapphire-throated Hummingbird Chrysuronia coeruleogularis
- Great Crested Flycatcher Myiarchus crinitus
- Chestnut-headed Oropendola Psarocolius wagleri
- Summer Tanager Piranga rubra
- Collared Aracari Pteroglossus torquatus
- Capped Heron Pilherodius pileatus
- Plain-colored Tanager Tangara inornata
- Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius
- Bat Falcon Falco rufigularis
- Masked Tityra Tityra semifasciata
- Keel-billed Toucan Ramphastos sulfuratus
- Orange-crowned Oriole Icterus auricapillus
- Black-crowned Tityra Tityra inquisitor
- Plain-breasted Ground Dove Columbina minuta
- Grey-capped Flycatcher Myiozetetes granadensis
- Black-chested Jay Cyanocorax affinis
- Pearl Kite Gampsonyx swainsonii
- Mourning Warbler Geothlypis philadelphia
- Red-rumped Woodpecker Veniliornis kirkii
- Streak-headed Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes souleyetii
- Rufous-tailed Jacamar Galbula ruficauda
- Rufous-breasted Hermit Glaucis hirsutus
- Rufous-tailed Hummingbird Amazilia tzacatl
- Broad-winged Hawk Buteo platypterus
- Pale-bellied Hermit Phaethornis anthophilus
- Crimson-crested Woodpecker Campephilus melanoleucos
- Plumbeous Kite Ictinia plumbea
- Spectacled Parrotlet Forpus conspicillatus
- Boat-billed Flycatcher Megarynchus pitangua
- Baltimore Oriole Icterus galbula
- Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria
- Short-tailed Swift Chaetura brachyura
- Northern Screamer Chauna chavaria
- Tropical Mockingbird Mimus gilvus
- Neotropic Cormorant Nannopterum brasilianum
- Crane Hawk Geranospiza caerulescens
- Dickcissel Spiza americana
- American Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Aplomado Falcon Falco femoralis
- American Kestrel Falco sparverius
- Cattle Tyrant Machetornis rixosa
- Black-tailed Trogon Trogon melanurus
- Black-collared Hawk Busarellus nigricollis
- Eastern Kingbird Tyrannus tyrannus
- Buff-throated Saltator Saltator maximus
- Common Tody-Flycatcher Todirostrum cinereum
- Bay-breasted Warbler Setophaga castanea
- Lesser Goldfinch Spinus psaltria
- Eastern Wood Pewee Contopus virens
- Pied Puffbird Notharchus tectus
- Violet-bellied Hummingbird Chlorestes julie
- Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias
- Lesser Swallow-tailed Swift Panyptila cayennensis
- Piratic Flycatcher Legatus leucophaius
- Northern Waterthrush Parkesia noveboracensis
- Black-cheeked Woodpecker Melanerpes pucherani
- Cocoa Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus susurrans
- Swainson's Hawk Buteo swainsoni
- Black-bellied Wren Pheugopedius fasciatoventris
- Blue Dacnis Dacnis cayana
- Panama Flycatcher Myiarchus panamensis
- Yellow-throated Toucan Ramphastos ambiguus
- Southern Beardless Tyrannulet Camptostoma obsoletum
- White-necked Puffbird Notharchus hyperrhynchus
- Pauraque Nyctidromus albicollis
- American White Ibis Eudocimus albus
- Amazon Kingfisher Chloroceryle amazona
- Lesser Nighthawk Chordeiles acutipennis
- Blue Ground Dove Claravis pretiosa
- Great Black Hawk Buteogallus urubitinga
- Band-rumped Swift Chaetura spinicaudus
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Barred Puffbird Nystalus radiatus
- Cinnamon Woodpecker Celeus loricatus
- Grey-cowled Wood Rail Aramides cajaneus
- Scaly-breasted Hummingbird Phaeochroa cuvierii
- Zone-tailed Hawk Buteo albonotatus
- Red-throated Caracara Ibycter americanus
- Tennessee Warbler Leiothlypis peregrina
- Grey-headed Kite Leptodon cayanensis
- Common Black Hawk Buteogallus anthracinus
- Spot-crowned Barbet Capito maculicoronatus
- Blue-winged Teal Spatula discors
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Tropical Gnatcatcher Polioptila plumbea
- Black Antshrike Thamnophilus nigriceps
- Little Cuckoo Coccycua minuta
- Forest Elaenia Myiopagis gaimardii
- Ruby-topaz Hummingbird Chrysolampis mosquitus
- Great Potoo Nyctibius grandis
- Black-headed Tody-Flycatcher Todirostrum nigriceps
- Magnificent Frigatebird Fregata magnificens
- Swallow-tailed Kite Elanoides forficatus
- White-tailed Kite Elanus leucurus
- Anhinga Anhinga anhinga
- Golden-hooded Tanager Stilpnia larvata
- Common Nighthawk Chordeiles minor
- White-headed Wren Campylorhynchus albobrunneus
- Mississippi Kite Ictinia mississippiensis
- Social Flycatcher Myiozetetes similis
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- Common Squirrel Cuckoo Piaya cayana
- Black-crowned Antshrike Thamnophilus atrinucha
- Yellow-backed Oriole Icterus chrysater
- Bright-rumped Attila Attila spadiceus
- White-vented Plumeleteer Chalybura buffonii
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Chimney Swift Chaetura pelagica
- Red-legged Honeycreeper Cyanerpes cyaneus
- Golden-collared Manakin Manacus vitellinus
- Chestnut-fronted Macaw Ara severus
- Long-winged Harrier Circus buffoni
- Groove-billed Ani Crotophaga sulcirostris
- Yellow-bellied Seedeater Sporophila nigricollis
- Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak Pheucticus ludovicianus
- Purple-throated Fruitcrow Querula purpurata
- Red-billed Scythebill Campylorhamphus trochilirostris
- White-collared Swift Streptoprocne zonaris
- Black Hawk-Eagle Spizaetus tyrannus
- Blue Cotinga Cotinga nattererii
- Long-billed Starthroat Heliomaster longirostris
- White-tailed Trogon Trogon chionurus
- Pale-breasted Spinetail Synallaxis albescens
- Olivaceous Piculet Picumnus olivaceus
- Tricolored Heron Egretta tricolor
- Harpy Eagle Harpia harpyja
- Long-tailed Tyrant Colonia colonus
- Hook-billed Kite Chondrohierax uncinatus
- Blue-chested Hummingbird Polyerata amabilis
- Whooping Motmot Momotus subrufescens
- Common Potoo Nyctibius griseus
- Golden-green Woodpecker Piculus chrysochloros
- American Pygmy Kingfisher Chloroceryle aenea
- Northern Tropical Pewee Contopus bogotensis
- Ruddy-tailed Flycatcher Terenotriccus erythrurus
- Yellow-green Vireo Vireo flavoviridis
- Blackburnian Warbler Setophaga fusca
- Dusky-capped Flycatcher Myiarchus tuberculifer
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus
- White-winged Becard Pachyramphus polychopterus
- Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca
- Short-tailed Hawk Buteo brachyurus
- Fulvous-vented Euphonia Euphonia fulvicrissa
- Wilson's Snipe Gallinago delicata
- Grey-cheeked Nunlet Nonnula frontalis
- Golden-crowned Spadebill Platyrinchus coronatus
- Scaled Pigeon Patagioenas speciosa
- Flame-rumped Tanager Ramphocelus flammigerus
- White-shouldered Tanager Loriotus luctuosus
- Brown-hooded Parrot Pyrilia haematotis
- Green Kingfisher Chloroceryle americana
- White-bellied Antbird Myrmeciza longipes
- Great Tinamou Tinamus major
- Great Jacamar Jacamerops aureus
- Mangrove Swallow Tachycineta albilinea
- Double-toothed Kite Harpagus bidentatus
- Common Gallinule Gallinula galeata
- Northern Plain Xenops Xenops mexicanus
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Black-tailed Myiobius Myiobius atricaudus
- Double-banded Greytail Xenerpestes minlosi
- White-necked Jacobin Florisuga mellivora
- Cabanis's Wren Cantorchilus modestus
- Chestnut-backed Antbird Poliocrania exsul
- Green Ibis Mesembrinibis cayennensis
- White-ringed Flycatcher Conopias albovittatus
- Eastern Meadowlark Sturnella magna
- Swainson's Thrush Catharus ustulatus
- Purple-crowned Fairy Heliothryx barroti
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron Nyctanassa violacea
- Sora Porzana carolina
- Brown-capped Tyrannulet Ornithion brunneicapillus
- Paint-billed Crake Mustelirallus erythrops
- Choco Sirystes Sirystes albogriseus
- Golden-headed Manakin Ceratopipra erythrocephala
- White-eared Conebill Conirostrum leucogenys
- Northern Harrier Circus hudsonius
- Olive-sided Flycatcher Contopus cooperi
- Crowned Woodnymph Thalurania colombica
- Long-billed Hermit Phaethornis longirostris
- Barred Antshrike Thamnophilus doliatus
- Semiplumbeous Hawk Leucopternis semiplumbeus
- Dot-winged Antwren Microrhopias quixensis
- Blue-and-yellow Macaw Ara ararauna
- Dusky-backed Jacamar Brachygalba salmoni
- Snowy-bellied Hummingbird Saucerottia edward
- King Vulture Sarcoramphus papa
- White Hawk Pseudastur albicollis
- Sooty-headed Tyrannulet Phyllomyias griseiceps
- Yellow-winged Flatbill Tolmomyias flavotectus
- Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas
- Bronzed Cowbird Molothrus aeneus
- Yellow-crowned Amazon Amazona ochrocephala
- Bare-crowned Antbird Gymnocichla nudiceps
- Green Honeycreeper Chlorophanes spiza
- Bicolored Wren Campylorhynchus griseus
- Gartered Trogon Trogon caligatus
- Yellow Tyrannulet Capsiempis flaveola
- Plain-brown Woodcreeper Dendrocincla fuliginosa
- White-whiskered Puffbird Malacoptila panamensis
- White-flanked Antwren Myrmotherula axillaris
- Green-and-rufous Kingfisher Chloroceryle inda
- Ochre-bellied Flycatcher Mionectes oleagineus
- Black-and-white Hawk-Eagle Spizaetus melanoleucus
- Bare-throated Tiger Heron Tigrisoma mexicanum
- Canada Warbler Cardellina canadensis
- Panama Tyrannulet Phylloscartes flavovirens
- Slaty-tailed Trogon Trogon massena
- Western Olivaceous Flatbill Rhynchocyclus aequinoctialis
- Velvety Manakin Lepidothrix velutina
- Dusky Antbird Cercomacroides tyrannina
- Prothonotary Warbler Protonotaria citrea
- White-fronted Nunbird Monasa morphoeus
- Sulphur-rumped Myiobius Myiobius sulphureipygius
- Boat-billed Heron Cochlearius cochlearius
- Yellow-backed Tanager Hemithraupis flavicollis
- Lesser Greenlet Pachysylvia decurtata
- Ruddy Pigeon Patagioenas subvinacea
- Moustached Antwren Myrmotherula ignota
- Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
- Shining Honeycreeper Cyanerpes lucidus
- Acadian Flycatcher Empidonax virescens
- Tawny-capped Euphonia Euphonia anneae
- Spotted Antbird Hylophylax naevioides
- Rufous-crested Coquette Lophornis delattrei
- Rufous Mourner Rhytipterna holerythra
- Tawny-crested Tanager Tachyphonus delatrii
- Rufous-winged Tanager Tangara lavinia
- Grey-cheeked Thrush Catharus minimus
- Checker-throated Stipplethroat Epinecrophylla fulviventris
- Black-faced Antthrush Formicarius analis
- Rufous Piha Lipaugus unirufus
- Olive-striped Flycatcher Mionectes galbinus
- Plumbeous Hawk Cryptoleucopteryx plumbea
- Red-capped Manakin Ceratopipra mentalis
- Mistletoe Tyrannulet Zimmerius parvus
- Scarlet-browed Tanager Heterospingus xanthopygius
- Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla
- Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher Myiodynastes luteiventris
- Brown-chested Martin Progne tapera
- Brown Pelican Pelecanus occidentalis
- Bicolored Hawk Astur bicolor
- Least Grebe Tachybaptus dominicus
- Collared Forest Falcon Micrastur semitorquatus
- Merlin Falco columbarius
- Black-capped Pygmy Tyrant Myiornis atricapillus
- Stripe-throated Hermit Phaethornis striigularis
- Black-crowned Antpitta Pittasoma michleri
- White-breasted Wood Wren Henicorhina leucosticta
- Grey-breasted Wood Wren Henicorhina leucophrys
- Slate-colored Grosbeak Saltator grossus
- Russet-winged Schiffornis Schiffornis stenorhyncha
- Stripe-throated Wren Cantorchilus leucopogon
- Black-and-white Owl Strix nigrolineata
- Mottled Owl Strix virgata
- Swallow Tanager Tersina viridis
- American Black Swift Cypseloides niger
- Band-tailed Barbthroat Threnetes ruckeri
- Streaked Saltator Saltator striatipectus
- Scrub Greenlet Hylophilus flavipes
- Rufous-breasted Wren Pheugopedius rutilus
- Spot-fronted Swift Cypseloides cherriei
- White-chinned Swift Cypseloides cryptus
- Roseate Spoonbill Platalea ajaja
- Scarlet Tanager Piranga olivacea
- Choco Elaenia Myiopagis parambae
- White-vented Euphonia Euphonia minuta
- Short-billed Pigeon Patagioenas nigrirostris
- Agami Heron Agamia agami
- Crested Eagle Morphnus guianensis
- Uniform Crake Amaurolimnas concolor
- Blue-black Grosbeak Cyanoloxia cyanoides
- Black-breasted Puffbird Notharchus pectoralis
- Ornate Hawk-Eagle Spizaetus ornatus
- Dwarf Cuckoo Coccycua pumila
- Rufous Nightjar Antrostomus rufus
- Lesser Elaenia Elaenia chiriquensis
- Plumbeous Pigeon Patagioenas plumbea
- Scarlet-thighed Dacnis Dacnis venusta
- Spot-crowned Antvireo Dysithamnus puncticeps
- Black-and-white Warbler Mniotilta varia
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx serripennis
- Pheasant Cuckoo Dromococcyx phasianellus
- Choco Screech Owl Megascops centralis
- Barred Forest Falcon Micrastur ruficollis
- Yellow-eared Toucanet Selenidera spectabilis
- Ochre-throated Foliage-gleaner Automolus ochrolaemus
- Crimson-bellied Woodpecker Campephilus haematogaster
- Bronze-tailed Plumeleteer Chalybura urochrysia
- Southern Bentbill Oncostoma olivaceum
- American Barn Owl Tyto furcata
- Great Curassow Crax rubra
- Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon
- Myrtle Warbler Setophaga coronata
- Grey Kingbird Tyrannus dominicensis
- Yellow-throated Vireo Vireo flavifrons
- Least Bittern Botaurus exilis
- Willet Tringa semipalmata
- Slender-billed Kite Helicolestes hamatus
- Speckled Mourner Laniocera rufescens
- Pacific Antwren Myrmotherula pacifica
- Blue Grosbeak Passerina caerulea
- Trilling Gnatwren Ramphocaenus melanurus
- Striped Owl Asio clamator
- Bran-colored Flycatcher Myiophobus fasciatus
- Black-billed Flycatcher Aphanotriccus audax
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Yaviza wetlands?
September. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 249 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Yaviza wetlands?
394 species, from 24,458 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Yaviza wetlands in November?
The most recorded in November: Smooth-billed Ani, Pale-vented Pigeon, Yellow-headed Caracara, Ruddy Ground Dove and Great Egret.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.