Bird Observation

The art of photography is about capturing light. In tropical rainforest, this goal is harder to achieve. Whether in the Brazilian Amazon, Corcovado National Park in Costa Rica, or Sarawak in Malaysia, the vegetation cover is extremely dense, considerably limiting the reflection of sunlight. Only around 1% to 5% of solar particles reach the forest floor. The thickness of the ...

You can dive in Panama year-round — it all depends on what you want to see. The dry season runs from January to April, and the wet season from May to December. Visibility stays fairly consistent throughout the year. While humpback whales can be spotted in any season, they are most numerous from June to November, when they come to give birth in Panama’s warm waters. 760 fish species have ...

Two or three days was the minimum needed to spot and observe the quetzal, so wary and elusive is this bird, often well hidden in the dense foliage of its feeding trees. The Panamanian quetzal, without undertaking any major migration, moves with the seasons to find the fruit that makes up most of its diet. Between March and June, it favours a temporary territory on the Barú volcano, between ...