March 9, 2009

6:45 pm (REFRESHMENTS!)

Duval Auditorium, University Medical Center, Tucson, Arizona

The world-famous Canopy Tower.

Panama may be small, covering only 30,000 square miles at the narrow waist of Central America; but this slender isthmus links two continents—and their birds. With more than 1,000 species occupying an area slightly smaller than the state of Indiana, Panama makes air-castle dreams come true for visiting naturalists. The birder’s destination of choice for well over a hundred years, Panama was thoroughly explored in the nineteenth centuries as part of the decades-long search for land and sea routes joining the oceans, and the results of those efforts—political, social, and technological—continue to influence ecotourism in the New World tropics today.

Join Rick Wright, Managing Director of WINGS, for an illustrated exploration of the intersections of north and south, ocean and forest, past and present in Panama.