| Birdlife is rich with African skimmers, fish eagles, many types of heron and colonies of carmine bee-eaters. |
| In the ponds we may encounter the Green Ibis, Snowy Egrets, Boatbill heron, the Purple Gallinule and the Wattled Jacana and many others. |
| The Panama Canal watershed boasts 560 bird species including the rufescent tiger heron and chestnut-mandibled toucan. |
| The spot where I like to sit looks out over rocky shallows where ducks, gulls, heron, cranes, and egrets like to gather. |
| The heron resumed his beady-eyed stance, scanning the depths of the pond for an unwary goldfish. |
| A grey heron meditates halfway up a tree, while a pair of red-wattled lapwings drive away all comers from their private niche. |
