We’ve returned from our adventures at the Canopy Tower in Panama. The birding was beyond fantastic, the food was delicious, and our local guide Carlos Bethancourt was one of the best we’ve ever encountered. Rich Merritt, our always awesome Audubon leader, shared with us his photographs of the experience. We are already making plans to return next year, so stay tuned!
![Want to experience one of the finest and best-known spectacles of spring songbird migration in North America? Check out our new trip with Victor Emanuel Nature Tours. Texas High Island Migration April 20-26th. http://bit.ly/UcRkog [photo: Rose-breasted Grosbeak by Brennan Mulrooney]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/7d636780261f46dccb786c3c20561f48/tumblr_mfacwm17hX1qead6mo1_500.jpg)
Want to experience one of the finest and best-known spectacles of spring songbird migration in North America?
Check out our new trip with Victor Emanuel Nature Tours. Texas High Island Migration April 20-26th.
http://bit.ly/UcRkog
[photo: Rose-breasted Grosbeak by Brennan Mulrooney]
![Our April 2013 birding trip to The Canopy Tower Lodge in Panama is going to be a bird lover’s dream. Check out the amazing program here! [Photo: Male violet-bellied hummingbird at Canopy Tower - Eric Horvath]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_me7khxpf4i1qead6mo1_500.jpg)
Our April 2013 birding trip to The Canopy Tower Lodge in Panama is going to be a bird lover’s dream. Check out the amazing program here!
[Photo: Male violet-bellied hummingbird at Canopy Tower - Eric Horvath]
![A thing of beauty. Spot this manikan and many other gorgeous species on our upcoming Costa Rica and Panama trip departing January 26.
[Photo: Red-capped manikan (Pipra mentalis), Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica, Ralph Lee Hopkins]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mc3ithxpI81qead6mo1_500.jpg)
A thing of beauty. Spot this manikan and many other gorgeous species on our upcoming Costa Rica and Panama trip departing January 26.
[Photo: Red-capped manikan (Pipra mentalis), Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica, Ralph Lee Hopkins]
It’s rainy and gray here in NYC, so we dreamed a little dream about our April trip to the Canopy Tower in Panama…
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird, near Canopy Tower, Panama
Image Copyright 2009: Arthur Morris/BIRDS AS ART
The secluded Rancho Las Cruces on Baja California. This will be our hideaway for three days during our Baja Photography Retreat. Once an escape for the Hollywood elite (think Bing Crosby and Desi Arnaz), it is now an exclusive hotel set on five miles of beachfront. And in January 2013 — if only for a few days — it’ll be all ours!
![Take our Baja California Land & Sea Photography Retreat and pay a visit to these elegant yet silly terns.
[Elegant terns (Sterna elegans) nesting on Isla Rasa in the middle Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez), Mexico - Michael S. Nolan]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mai7bny5xq1qead6mo1_500.jpg)
Take our Baja California Land & Sea Photography Retreat and pay a visit to these elegant yet silly terns.
[Elegant terns (Sterna elegans) nesting on Isla Rasa in the middle Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez), Mexico - Michael S. Nolan]
![Be there with Audubon. January 2013. Baja and the Sea of Cortez.
[Photo: California Gray Whale (Eschrichtius robustus) spy-hopping near whale watchers in the town of Puerto Lopez Mateos, BCS along the Pacific side of the Baja Peninsula. By Michael S. Nolan]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9fk1wdNhR1qead6mo1_500.jpg)
Be there with Audubon. January 2013. Baja and the Sea of Cortez.
[Photo: California Gray Whale (Eschrichtius robustus) spy-hopping near whale watchers in the town of Puerto Lopez Mateos, BCS along the Pacific side of the Baja Peninsula. By Michael S. Nolan]
![We are looking forward to the exhibition Portraits of Planet Ocean: The Photography of Brian Skerry opening February 2013 at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Here is a sneak peek!Skerry is an award-winning photojournalist who has also contributed to Audubon Magazine.
[photo: A tiny yellow goby, Lubricogobius exiguus, living inside an abandoned can on the seafloor; Suruga Bay, Japan]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9fhxnKE2R1qead6mo1_500.jpg)
We are looking forward to the exhibition Portraits of Planet Ocean: The Photography of Brian Skerry opening February 2013 at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Here is a sneak peek!Skerry is an award-winning photojournalist who has also contributed to Audubon Magazine.
[photo: A tiny yellow goby, Lubricogobius exiguus, living inside an abandoned can on the seafloor; Suruga Bay, Japan]
