On a birding trip to Panama:

There’s only one corvid on our Canopy Tower checklist and it’s not a crow.  It’s the black-chested jay (Cyanocorax affinis).

Why are there no crows in Panama and South America?   Good question.

I don’t know the answer but here’s proof that it’s true …

(photo from Wikimedia Commons; click on the image to see the original. Text screenshot from a Guide to the Birds of Panama by Ridgely and Gwynne, 1992, Princeton University Press)

Day 6:  Canopy Tower, Summit Gardens, leave for airport area