Ten birders participated in this eight-day tour, beginning and ending in Panama City. The first three days of our tour were spent exploring rainforest habitat in the Panama Canal area and included visits to the Rainforest Discovery Center on world-famous Pipeline Road, Metropolitan Natural Park in Panama City and the canal’s Miraflores Locks. Our next three days took us to Boquete in the mountains of western Panama, where we experienced a breathtaking sunrise above the clouds at the summit of extinct Volcan Baru, Panama’s highest peak, hiked two different trails through cloud forest habitat on the slopes of the volcano, visited Finca Lérida, a working coffee plantation and Paraiso Birding Paradise, a private reserve where we encountered nearly 100 different birds! Our last day was spent back in Panama City, where we explored colonial areas of the city and scanned coastal mudflats teeming with waders, shorebirds gulls and terns.

On Saturday, April 4, seventeen birders joined TAS Field Trip Coordinator Brian Rapoza for a full day of birding at two state parks, Johnathan Dickinson SP in Martin County and John D. MacArther Beach SP in northern Palm Beach County.

On Saturday, March 7, over forty birders joined TAS Field Trip Coordinator Brian Rapoza for a warm but windy day of birding in Everglades National Park. Locations visited included Coe Visitor Center, Anhinga Trail, Long Pine Key, Mahogany Hammock, West Lake and Flamingo.

On Saturday, February 21, ten birders from as far away as Michigan and New Jersey joined Luis Gonzalez and Brian Rapoza for Tropical Audubon’s annual Miami Exotics tour. Using a 15-passenger van to transport the group, we spent the day searching for as many of south Florida’s introduced bird species as possible. Among the seventy-four species tallied by day’s end were twenty-two different exotics!

On Saturday, February 14, thirty-six birders joined TAS Field Trip Coordinator Brian Rapoza for a pleasant morning of birding at Black Point Park and Cutler Wetlands in south Miami-Dade.

Thirty-four birders joined TAS Field Trip Coordinator Brian Rapoza for what was scheduled to be a full day of birding in Everglades National Park. The rains from an approaching cold front held off until noon, allowing us to visit four different locations in the park before calling it a day.

From Friday, January 16th to Monday, January 19th, seven birders joined TAS Field Trip Coordinator Brian Rapoza for Tropical Audubon’s annual winter birding tour to the Tallahassee area in north Florida. The group consisted of John Boyd, Nancy Freedman, Liz Gushee, Deb Magid, Ann Martinez and Jim Sigsbee, all from Miami-Dade County, and Ann Wiley from Broward County.

The 56th annual Miami (Dade County) Christmas Bird Count took place on Saturday, December 20. On count day, 41 participants counted 14,637 birds of 124 species and two other taxa. Compared with 2024, there were 3,146 more birds counted and 9 more species

On Saturday, December 6, twenty-two birders joined TAS Field Trip Coordinator Brian Rapoza for a full day of birding along Tamiami Trail in Collier County. The trip began at the Oasis Visitor Center in Big Cypress National Preserve. While in Big Cypress, we also made brief stops at Monument Lake Campground and H.P. Williams Wayside Park.

Ten birders joined TAS Field Trip Coordinator Brian Rapoza for this 11-day tour of southern Guatemala’s highland areas, which began and ended in Guatemala City. The first two days of the tour were spent visiting birding locations near Antigua, Guatemala’s colonial capital. The remainder of the tour was spent birding on or near the dormant Atitlan volcano and around scenic Lake Atitlan.

On Saturday, October 25, twenty-two birders joined TAS Field Trip Coordinator Brian Rapoza for a full day of birding in Everglades National Park. Locations visited included Coe Visitor Center, Anhinga and Gumbo Limbo Trails, Long Pine Key, Mahogany Hammock, West Lake and Flamingo.

On Sunday, September 28, thirty-one birders joined TAS field Trip Coordinator Brian Rapoza for a morning of birding at Greynolds Park in North Miami Beach. Thirty-four birds were tallied by the group.

On Saturday, September 27, thirty-nine birders joined TAS President Joe Barros for a morning of birding at Matheson Hammock Park in Coral Gables. Thirty-two species were tallied by the group.

On Saturday, September 13, twenty-four birders joined TAS Field Trip Coordinator Brian Rapoza for a morning of birding at Crandon Park on Key Biscayne.

On Saturday, September 6, thirty-seven birders joined TAS Field Trip Coordinator Brian Rapoza as we kicked off the 2025-26 field trip season with a morning of birding at Tropical Park in Miami.

On Saturday, March 29, TAS President Joe Barros and TAS Field Trip Coordinator Brian Rapoza led Tropical Audubon’s annual spring birding trip to Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Coral Gables. The assembled group, which included both Tropical Audubon and Fairchild Garden members, was split into two smaller groups, one led by Joe and the other by Brian. Both groups made a complete circuit of the garden, but in opposite directions, then reassembled at the end of the morning to compare sightings. As is often the case when we split into two groups, each group saw a few birds that the other group didn’t.

On Saturday, March 22, twenty-six birders joined TAS Field Trip Coordinator Brian Rapoza for a full day of birding in Martin and Northern Palm Beach Counties. Locations visited include Jonathan Dickinson State Park, Pine Glades Natural Area and John C. and Mariana Jones/Hungryland Wildlife and Environmental Area.

On Saturday, March 8, twenty-seven birders joined TAS Field Trip Coordinator Brian Rapoza for a very pleasant morning of birding at Wakodahatchee and Green Cay Wetlands in southern Palm Beach County. We tallied 41 bird species at Wakodahatchee and 42 species at Green Cay; our combined total for both locations were 51 species.

On Saturday, March 1st, twenty-three birders joined TAS Field Trip Coordinator Brian Rapoza for a full day of birding in Everglades National Park. The trip began at the Coe Visitor Center; other locations visited while in the park included Anhinga and Gumbo Limbo Trails, the Gate 13 restoration area, Long Pine Key picnic area, Pa-hay-Okee overlook, Mahogany Hammock, Paurotis Pond, West Lake and the Flamingo area.

On Saturday, February 22, ten birders joined Brian Rapoza and Luis Gonzalez for Tropical Audubon’s annual Miami Exotics tour. The tour began and ended at Tropical Park: we also made stops in South Miami, The Falls area, Palmetto Bay, Kendall, West Kendall, Sweetwater and Miami Beach. A total of 65 species were tallied during the tour, including 20 introduced species.