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Carlos Bethancourt also forwarded these two photos from José Pérez: a Speckled Mourner seen on Pipeline Road March 3 and Mangrove Cuckoo seen March 4 at Fort Sherman.

[A very preliminary report] A lot of people went out at ungodly hours of the morning and managed to count a lot of birds. Highlights, compiled from my hazy memory of a hot midday roll-call, follow: Plantation Road: Speckled Mourner. Old Gamboa Road: Blackpoll Warbler, Slate-headed Tody-Flycatcher, Plain-breasted Ground-Dove. Metropolitan Nature Park: Worm-eating Warbler, Streak-headed Woodcreeper, American Coot. Panamá Viejo: Long-billed Curlew, Cocoi Heron, Elegant Tern, Franklin's Gull. Amador: Cattle Tyrant, a couple Brown Boobies and a single Blue-footed. Rodman Spoil Ponds: The first record (voice only, as usual) of Gray-breasted Crake from the Pacific Canal Area (that I know of). Four American Coots, a couple Glossy Ibis, and the only Masked Duck to grace our records in recent memory (that i know of. also the first one from the Pacific Side, that i know of.) Photo by Rosabel Miró.

White-rumped Sandpiper at Rodman Ponds (Bill Porteous), Long-billed Curlew at Panamá Viejo (Rosabel Miró), Laughing Falcon, American Pygmy Kingfisher and Speckled Mourner at Old Gamboa Road (Darién Montañez), Slaty-backed Forest-Falcon and Pheasant Cuckoo on the Madden Road side roads (Loyda Sánchez)... (more coming soon).