Birds of Panama, the Tanagers

That Panama is located in the tropics is obvious, even from the birds you see in the city. In the city centre, not exactly a green zone, I have already seen three species of parrots, humming birds and a bat falcon. Other common birds are kingbirds and tanagers

If you go to the metropolitan park, you will see many more species. The Metropolitan Park is actually about 200 hectare of tropical forest, now virtually surrounded by Panama city. Apart from over 200 species of birds, you can see sloths, the endemic Geoffroy’s tamarin (a small monkey), coatis and agoutis. The tamarins are getting more and more rare because their habitat is decreasing rapidly.

But back to the birds and more specifically the tanagers. Tanagers form a large group of neotropical birds. Most are brightly coloured and feed on fruits. You see them quite often in gardens and if you put out some fruit, you can easily lure them quite close. In the tree nursery located in the metropolitan park, the staff put bananas on the fence and this attracts many tanagers. Tanagers appear to be quite social and friendly birds.

Because Kees, as you might know, likes to watch birds and hopes to become a bird guide and accompany other birdwatchers in Panama, we wanted a bird in the logo of our company. Since tanagers are colourful, social and friendly, we decided to name our company after them and to put them in our logo.


The tree trunk shaped T (big and small) symbolizes the reforestation part of our project in Veraguas and the birds and trees together symbolize our commitment to the environment.

What do you think of our logo?