Xenornis

On November 25, a male Cinnamon Teal was seen near Playa Caracol with 13 Lesser Scaups at the shrimp farms located in Punta Chame. The group included Alexis Guevara, Jorge Portillo, Ileana Benitez and myself. Also, a female Ring-necked Duck was at Gorgona.

Consensus is the mystery ducks Jennifer Wolcott has been seeing last week at Farfán pond are indeed Cinnamon Teal , as shown by the ruddy wash throughout, and the underwing pattern and foot color. This afternoon, George Angehr and Darién and Delicia Montañez went and saw them, so drop everything you're doing and go see this rare vagrant to Panama. The instructions are thusly: They were in the Farfan marsh area, near the main road. I climbed the berm to get a better picture. So, park at the Farfan parking area, first walk into the marches (the gate is no longer closed and the grass is overgrown). If they are at the other end, walk down the main road counting telephone poles, then slog (carefully, take a walking stick if you can) up the berm.

Euclides Campos sends in some noteworthy records from the first half of 2012. A White-eyed Vireo  was seen at Bayano Lake on February 16th. This bird was calling.  On February 25th, leading a group at Las Lajas Beach, Chiriqui; We saw a hundreds of Blue-winged Teal, three American Wigeon and my lifer, a male Cinnamon Tteal . This bird was seen through three scopes. We managed to take some shots but not so well. Yellow-bellied Tyrannulet : heard at Cuesta de Piedra on February 27th 2012. Sounds like the other Ornithion we have in Panama but slightly different. On June 1th, a pelagic trip using the hot spring trail of Coiba Island as a starting point, 32 miles SSE. We saw two Wedge-tailed Shearwaters , one Sooty Shearwater, two Black, three Least Storm Petrel, two Nazca Boobies , eight Parasitic Jaegers and plenty of Wedge-rumped Storm Petrels.