10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2023

A massive (largest member of the Amazona group of parrots) creature with searing red eyes set in a sea of blue, brown, and purple, the Imperial Parrot ( Amazona imperialis ) is a recluse of higher elevation forest on the island of Dominica. Although many of the birds on the island were new for me, the Imperial Parrot remained the holy grail!

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Dominica Parrots Groups Rights 130

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Very few reasonably good photographs of Lesser Antillean Swift exist; my adventure partner and author of the Birds of the Lesser Antilles did hurl some abuse my way when he saw the back of my camera after working a small flock of these tiny speedsters in Martinique. A photo for the second edition, perhaps?

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Puerto Rico Grenada Barbados Trinidad 185

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2019

He raised his binoculars above his head and cried out with courage and clarity, “I am Sparticus!” Yellow-throated Warbler – Setophaga dominica. The post Collaborative List – November 2019 appeared first on 10,000 Birds. Something needed to be done. Somebody had to take one for the team. Rinconcito Lodge.

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2019 Farming Sparrows Charlotte 142