10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2023
In southern Trinidad, however, there is much more at play than what is immediately discernible. Birding in a place where animals are assiduously cared for and not harassed in any form or fashion means that the encounters themselves are essentially guaranteed to be memorable – and not of fleeing bird behinds!
10,000 Birds
MAY 17, 2023
The southern forests of the island of Trinidad are home to the much-maligned Moruga Grasshopper. International organisations have provided “assistance” to the government of Trinidad & Tobago over the years to placate residents and aggrieved farmers. Abundant animals like grasshoppers are always abundant for a reason.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
As a child, poring through the pages of the Encyclopedia of Animal Life (I was gifted this 25 years before I appeared in Audubon magazine myself) birds gripped my attention. Turns out that the Streak-headed Woodcreeper was a formerly uncommon resident of Trinidad, its range gradually increasing to cover semi-degraded and altered habitat.
Critter News
MAY 16, 2009
Three corrupt police officers in Trinidad and Tobago robbed a couple of Venezuelan wildlife smugglers and were subsequently arrested themselves. Over 1,000 animals were rescued, including 500 bull finches and 300 picoplats, The rescued wildlife also included monkeys, parrots, macaws and other species from Venezuela.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
It had been some months since we had been in the hills of Trinidad’s Northern Range, and let it be known that all forests are very different. We heard some animal trundling through the bushes but got no visual. It was October 17th, and we spent almost the entire day within eyesight of our folding chairs and sandwiches.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 4, 2021
I would love to spend a night at this lake to experience the magic of twilight here – but there are many other animals which frequent this area that can materialize at any moment. The first post I ever prepared for this blog centred around a search for a vagrant Curlew Sandpiper here in my native Trinidad.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 26, 2022
Animals obviously see death and experience it as we do, so the question is not one of if, but of how. Did the Black-bellied Whistling Duck represent his family, “showing face” as we say here in the Caribbean? Or was it all dumb luck, the randomness of nature at play, pure coincidence?
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