Hummingbird Feeders, Canopy Tower
Hummingbirds at the feeders of a rainforest lodge built inside a Cold War radar tower — live 24/7 from Panama.
About this view
A live webcam on the hummingbird feeders at Canopy Tower, a birding lodge on Semaphore Hill in Soberanía National Park, about 35 miles north of Panama City. The lodge is a converted radar tower: the US Air Force built it in 1965 to watch the skies over the Panama Canal, and after the site was handed back to Panama in 1996 it reopened as a rainforest observatory in 1999.
The feeders draw a rotating cast that a regular learns to name — white-necked jacobins, violet-bellied and blue-chested hummingbirds, the long-billed hermit with its curved beak — plus the honeycreepers and tanagers that crash the party. The birds fight, hover and vanish in the same second; the Cornell Lab runs the camera with the lodge and explore.org.
Activity peaks in the first hours after dawn and again late afternoon (UTC−5, no daylight saving); midday heat thins the traffic. The dry season, roughly December to April, gives the steadiest light, and the wet months bring more birds to the feeders as wild flowers thin out.
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is the Hummingbird Feeders, Canopy Tower live cam located?
- The camera looks over Semaphore Hill, Soberanía National Park, in Panama. Its position is 9.078°N, 79.649°W, which you can open on our world map.
- What time is it at the Hummingbird Feeders, Canopy Tower camera?
- Semaphore Hill, Soberanía National Park runs on UTC−5, and the live clock at the top of this page shows the current local time and whether it is day or night there. It is worth checking before you watch: this view changes completely between the middle of the night and the busiest hours of the day.
- Are there other live cams near Semaphore Hill, Soberanía National Park?
- Yes — the closest ones are Panama Fruit Feeder, Roatán Coral Reef and Utila Reef Wall. They are listed under "Nearby cams" further down this page, and every camera we carry is plotted on the world map.
- Is this stream really live?
- Yes. This is a real 24/7 live feed broadcast by Cornell Lab Bird Cams, played through the official YouTube player — free, no account needed. Every stream in our catalogue is checked automatically before each update to confirm it is still live and watchable.
