Observer la migration des rapaces le long du canal de Panama

Due to the country’s geography as a mountainous land bridge ringed with islands between Central and South America, Panama’s bio-diversity is in a word, stunning.  Panama is a privileged country: in the world there exists just a few known places where one can see a million migratory raptors in a season including Israel, Costa Rica and Mexico.
Panama Audubon Society and Hawk Mountain Sanctuary united their efforts in the year 2004 to bring about the first count of migrating birds of prey in the Western Hemisphere in the narrowest place of the migratory route: The Panama Canal. This project is called « Raptors Ocean to Ocean Count ».
This count is done from a few spots situated along the Panama Canal, and in particular from Cerro Ancon (Ancon Hill), in Panama City. During the 5th annual Ocean to Ocean Raptor Count done in 2008 from two sites are active (Cerro Ancon and the Panama Rainforest Discovery Center), more than 1,700,000 raptors were counted.