Panama Rainforest Wildlife Safari 2025

Photograph Birds, Sloths, and More Oct. 12-19, 2025

3-toed sloth in Bocas del Toro province, Panama | © Jason P. Odell

I've locked in arrangements to take a small (8 max) group of photo enthusiasts to Panama Oct. 12-19, 2025 to photograph the incredible biodiversity of Panama's Caribbean coast. The Bocas del Toro region of Panama is just a few miles from the Costa Rican border, and we'll stay at a private island eco-lodge abutting a national rainforest preserve. One of the best parts of this trip is a boat excursion to the Changuinola canal, where the rainforest birds and animals are just feet away in the trees. Our expert guides are there to spot toucans, kingfishers, herons and sloths. We'll also have many of these animals in our "backyard" right outside our air-conditioned cabanas. Non-photographer companions are welcome and receive discounted pricing on this tour.

View my images from the 2024 trip here.

Panamanian Wildlife Partial Species List

These are all animals I’ve been able to see and photograph on my trips to Panama. You can read more about my 2023 trip here.

• 3-toed sloth

• Hoffman’s 2-toed sloth

• Emerald basilisk

• Brown basilisk

• Keel-billed toucan

• Montezuma’s oropendola

• Summer tanager

• Tawny-crested tanager

• White-faced capuchin monkey

• Prothonotary warbler

• Red-eyed tree frog

• Strawberry poison dart frog

• Amazon kingfisher

• Belted kingfisher

• Green ibis

• Red-footed booby

• Yellow-headed caracara

• Snail kite

• Black-cheeked woodpecker

• Spectacled caiman