Pacheca Bird Island of Panama

Costa Rica Tour and Panama Cruise with CruiseWest
Pacheca Bird Island of Panama * Photos and text by Jack Yeazel
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Pacheca is the northern-most island in the Archipelago of the Pearls, once a pearl-diving center consists of 60 tropical islands spread between 35 and 70 miles southeast of Panama on the Pacific Ocean side of the Central America Isthmus. Pacheca is only 35 miles from the city of Panama.

On this location map, the bird island was the last stop before traveling northward through the Panama Canal

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The ship manuevers amoung the many Pearl Islands.

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Very small island NW of the Bird Island. The white color is probably guano.
Frigate birds circle over their nest.
The nest and birds are in the large dark green shrub in the lower-right of the picture.

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The name of these small birds escapes me.
Interesting "blow hole" and after-spray.

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Blue-footed boobies.
A brown pelican flies past its nest
You couldn't plan a shot like this!