{"id":26791,"date":"2025-04-29T09:02:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T09:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=26791"},"modified":"2025-04-29T09:25:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T09:25:12","slug":"discovering-amazing-wildlife-along-the-panama-canal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=26791","title":{"rendered":"Discovering Amazing Wildlife Along the Panama Canal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cFollow me,\u201d Nando said. \u201cI know where it lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was late morning, hot, humid and quiet. Shafts of sunlight cut through the jungle as we followed a path through the latticed shade. A few hundred yards away, gigantic cargo ships stacked with containers chugged along the Panama Canal. But that was another world.<\/p>\n

Where we were walking was a strip of loamy-smelling rainforest that lines the canal banks and serves as home to hundreds of species of birds. We were looking for a specific one.<\/p>\n

At an overgrown spot in the forest that to me looked like any other, Nando, our guide, stopped.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Panamanian birding guide Nando, whose full name is Ismael Hernando Quiroz Miranda, led the author and his family around the bird-rich Canal Zone in Panama. Above, Nando, left, calls out to a streak-chested antpitta. Accompanying him is his son, Ismael, who works with Nando.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cWhoit<\/em>, whoit<\/em>, whoit<\/em>,\u201d he gently whistled. Then he listened.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t just use your eyes,\u201d he whispered. \u201cYou have to use your ears.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The third time he called, I heard, faintly calling back, \u201cWhoit<\/em>, whoit<\/em>, whoit<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was remarkable. Nando was speaking bird.<\/p>\n

A plump little streak-chested antpitta fluttered down onto a stick, a few feet away. I stood, awe-struck, as man and bird softly called back and forth.<\/p>\n

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\u201cFollow me,\u201d Nando said. \u201cI know where it lives.\u201dIt was late morning, hot, humid and quiet. Shafts of sunlight cut through the jungle as we followed a path through the latticed shade. A few hundred yards away, gigantic cargo ships stacked with containers chugged along the Panama Canal. But that was another world.Where we were walking was a strip of loamy-smelling rainforest that lines the canal banks and serves as home to hundreds of species of birds. We were looking for a specific one.At an overgrown spot in the forest that to me looked like any other, Nando, our guide, stopped.The Panamanian birding guide Nando, whose full name is Ismael Hernando Quiroz Miranda, led the author and his family around the bird-rich Canal Zone in Panama. Above, Nando, left, calls out to a streak-chested antpitta. Accompanying him is his son, Ismael, who works with Nando.\u201cWhoit, whoit, whoit,\u201d he gently whistled. Then he listened.\u201cYou can\u2019t just use your eyes,\u201d he whispered. \u201cYou have to use your ears.\u201dThe third time he called, I heard, faintly calling back, \u201cWhoit, whoit, whoit.\u201dIt was remarkable. Nando was speaking bird.A plump little streak-chested antpitta fluttered down onto a stick, a few feet away. I stood, awe-struck, as man and bird softly called back and forth.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26793,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26791"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26794,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26791\/revisions\/26794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}