Birding in Panama: Gail Mackiernan

In 2019, Gail Mackiernan and Barry Cooper joined friends from England for two weeks in Panama. The group spent five days at the famous Canopy Tower near the Panama Canal and six days at the Canopy Camp in the far-eastern province of Darién. In two weeks, they tallied about 300 species of birds, as well as a number of interesting mammals, including cute Sloths and noisy Howler Monkeys. Bird highlights were many, topped by smashing views of a Harpy Eagle at its nest, feeding a large chick, a totally unexpected encounter with a huge Crested Eagle perched along a remote road, close views of a confiding Black-crowned Antpitta, the enigmatic Sapayoa, Ocellated and Bare-crowned Antbirds and thousands of Mississippi Kites winging their way north over the forest. Gail is by training a marine biological oceanographer. Her area of expertise is the Chesapeake Bay, and while with the EPA Chesapeake Bay Program she co-authored the two definitive reports on the health of the Bay and the necessary management actions needed to help it. She retired in 1997. Before she retired, she renewed an early interest in birdwatching. Since then, she and her husband Barry Cooper have traveled to all seven continents in search of birds
(Presented on March 10, 2022. Q&A session is blurred for privacy starting at 54m42s.)

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very informative and love your passion! Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom.