outdoors

Harpy Eagle show at Parque Summit

photos by Karl Kaufman --- Sociedad Audubon de Panama

On April 15 the Peregrine Fund, the Patronato Amigos del Aguila Harpia and Summit Park held a Harpy Festival at which the Peregrine Fund's Marta Curti showed off Luigi, the group's Harpy Eagle.

The Harpy, the largest predatory bird in the Americas, is Panama's national bird.

Editor's note: Do you want to go somewhere that you might encounter our national bird in the wild? The Panama Audubon Society's new guide to where to look for which birds in Panama is now back from the printers. Get your copy at Parque Natural Metropolitano headquarters on Via Juan Pablo II, at the bookstore at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute's Tupper Center in Ancon, or through the Audubon website.

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