Bird Watching: Explore Pipeline Road's Avian Paradise

Discover 450+ bird species at Pipeline Road and Gamboa Discovery Center. Personalized birding tours tailored to your preferences. Book your unforgettable bird-watching experience now.

Duration: 6 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Soberanía National Park - Soberanía National Park is the most easily reachable national park from Panama City. It offers an ideal opportunity for a nature-filled day trip with the entire family, located just 45 minutes from the city. The park is situated near the Panama Canal and covers approximately 22,000 hectares. It features a dry tropical…
What's Included
  • Private transportation
  • Bottled water
  • In-vehicle air conditioning
  • Tea and coffee
  • Vehicle used based on the number of guests attending that day
  • Snacks
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities
Additional Information

The Pipeline Road and Gamboa Discovery Center is one of the most awesome destinations for all the bird lovers out there! This place is a paradise for bird watchers and tropical biologists. We offer personalized services so you can see the birds you love. With over 450 bird species, this place is the ultimate bird-watching spot. The mature lowland…

Location
Soberania National Park
Area Canalera de Gamboa,
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Jessie
Sep 22, 2025
49 bird species in just 5 hours! - Wonderful experience! With Clarivel as our guide we saw 49 bird species, a silky anteater, a troop of Howler monkeys, iguanas and even an agouti. Some of the birding highlights were a Toucan, a Puffbird, a Xenops, a Euphoria, a Woodcreeper, a Shrike vireo, a Tiger Heron, Jacanas, a Crake, Motmots, Trogons, Antshrikes, Antwrens, Antbirds, an Ant-tanager and, needless to say, ants. We are beginner birders and Clarivel was able to help us locate the birds easily.
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Sunnydayscloudsaway
Aug 9, 2025
Pájaro party - Yina was extremely knowledgable about birds and was able to show us a wide variety of species (including a toucan!). She even brought us binoculares and taught us the basics of birding. We had a wonderful trip, and appreciated the round trip pickup and flexibility on timing. Great way to see nature and amazing animals
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Harlan_i
Jul 11, 2025
Professional birding experience - Focused birding excursion. The guide was a true birder, not just somebody who deals with tourists. One nice thing about Panama is that great birding destinations are very close to Panama City, and an old US Govt. pipeline road provides easy access (by foot) to a rainforest.
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Marlene_h
May 19, 2025
An amazing experience - The birds watching tour in the Pipeline Road with Natalia was absolutely amazing. We have seen a lot of birds, monkeys, sloths, and other animals. An excellent tour in an amazing environment.
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Abed
May 1, 2025
Definitely recommend - I had a great time with Clarivell and Juan. Originally I missed my original booking since my hotel wouldn’t allow the car in, but everyone at the company worked hard to get me the tour since that was my last day in Panama. We’ve seen lots of cool birds, monkeys and sloth. Even though the trip was cut short by rain, we just drove around and looked for animals from the car. Overall great experience
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H2423majavierh
Apr 25, 2025
Indispensable activity for wildlife lovers and birds - The activity has been wonderful, and more with the best guide (Claribel) in Panama! We have seen many birds, and we have been able to photograph them calmly and at our own pace. 100% recommended
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Royalk537
Mar 19, 2025
Memorable - Our guide Natalia was excellent! She was extremely knowledgeable. And she has the eyes of a hawk! She showed us birds and animals we didn’t even know were there. Overall a wonderful experience! Thank you.
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338lori
Mar 9, 2025
Great birdwatching experience! - Thank you to Panamanian Aventures for a wonderful experience birdwatching...many thanks especially to our guide Gabe. He's knowledgeable, personable and passionate about birdwatching. We would definitely recommend this tour.
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Davidd649
Apr 28, 2025
A little disappointing. - This was supposed to be a hike along Pipeline road, but it was more driving around through neighborhoods and congested roads. We did get to pipeline road, but we drove down it instead of walking. We did see quite a few interesting species of birds so it's wasn't terrible, but not really what we were expecting.
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Paula_h
Mar 4, 2025
Not what we expected - Our guide was knowledgeable and was able to find several birds for us both outside of pipeline road and on pipeline road but I found the Viator description of the tour to be misleading. We expected to have 2 hours to explore Gamboa and then 3 hours on pipeline road for bird watching. However, the time spent in Gamboa was obviously also for bird watching. The birds we saw in the Gamboa part of the tour were fabulous and for this I must give our guide credit but it just wasn’t what we expected as our friend was not as much of a bird enthusiast and we were only able to convince her to come on this very pricey tour because we would also have time to tour and experience Gamboa. The posting in Viator made it sound like our 2 hours in Gamboa were not part of the bird watching tour.
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From $150
up to 15 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).