Marisel

I love using ebird + merlin combo, specially sound and photo ID, it has made my birding easier since I don’t know bird’s names in English nor in Spanish (my first language). Also I just wanted to share: I moved to my current home two years ago, and months later I put a feeder with seeds and I remember I had to refill it very often. Then I stopped doing that for reasons I don’t remember. Now, since I started this course (a month ago) I started over putting seeds on the feeder, and birds don’t come as often as in the beginning. With what I’ve learned in this course, and what I’ve heard in birding activities I’ve enrolled, I’ll be patient and wait until birds come back again. Maybe increasing people population here (it’s a new neighborhood), season (dry season), are factors that have a side effect on the birds I see.

using Merlin app, I discovered three species of birds singing at the same time (this app is amazing): blue-gray tanager, rufous-collared sparrow, tropical kingbird. These birds are common in my local area (Panama City) as well as in Boquete, where I saw the resplendent quetzal during a birdwatching tour right before completing this topic. in this tour we saw hummingbirds, and slaty flowerpiercers. (not many birds because we went exclusively to find a quetzal). recommendation: if you ever visit Panama 🇵🇦 go to Boquete anytime from mid January to April, there’s good chance to see quetzals.