Panama Challenge day 1: Beautiful birds

When: Monday March 15, 2010

What:
White top: Madison (Panama)
Green top (used as skirt): El Costo (Panama)
Yellow wedges: Stevens (Panama)
Yellow Xoxo purse: Xoxo (Panama)

Where: Shopping with my mom (extremely successful!) and dinner at my sister's place.

Comments:
For the first day of my Panama Challenge, I decided to explore the topic of Panama's beautiful birds. I also decided to wear nice bright colors to go along with the theme of tropical and colorful birds. I like the bright colors in this outfit as well as this new cute headband I just bought for only $1!!

So, back to the challenge, today's interesting fact about Panama is that Panama is known worldwide for holding many world records for bird observation. In fact, Panama is estimated to have about 971 bird species which is more than USA and Canada combined!

I thought it would be interesting to just post a little pic or two of some really interesting birds that can be found here in Panama. The first I would like to mention is commonly known as the rainbow-billed Toucan. I loooove the colors of this bird!

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I also think that it is interesting that Panama's national bird is the Harpy Eagle. This is the largest and most powerful raptor found in America, and it is among the largest living species of eagles in the world!

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Doesn't it look cute with it's feathers all ruffled? :)

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The last bird I wanted to mention is the Quetzal. These birds are absolutely beautiful with their colorful feathers and long tails.

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So that was today's interesting fact about Panama. I hope that I kept the information interesting and appealing and that you are not all snoring by now! jejeje. Thanks for always stopping by and for reading about me and my country. I appreciate each and every one of you!

Here are all the ways in which I've worn this skirt: