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Owling in Trinidad & Tobago

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Some of my earliest bird-related memories (what other memories even exist?) When I had just started attending birding trips with the T&T Field Naturalists’ Club , the first owl I laid eyes on was a roosting Tropical Screech-Owl. Visitors to the Caroni Bird Sanctuary can often see a pair roosting together in the mangrove.

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Birding in a Refinery

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Perhaps a little more shock-inducing and paradoxical than concepts of birding at sewage ponds or graveyards, an oil refinery seems to be the antithesis of a desirable place for a birder. In southern Trinidad, however, there is much more at play than what is immediately discernible.

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The Elusive GUIANAN TROGON: A Serendipitous Backyard Encounter

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By Fitzroy Rampersad Fitzroy or Fitz as he is fondly called began observing and photographing birds when the COVID-19 Pandemic forced border closures around the world including Trinidad & Tobago where he was vacationing at the time. For many birders, the quest to spot a specific bird can become an obsession.

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A Reliable Birding Proverb

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“Sit under a fruiting tree and birding shall be fruitful.” ” After spending the last couple months chasing migratory shorebirds, I was aching for some forest birding. It was a dreary morning, with Trinidad under watch for an incoming tropical wave. Small-billed Elaenia.

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Bird of the Year?

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How can one, in what is barely the second week of the first month of the year – even think of suggesting a Bird of the Year? I began recording my bird sightings with photographs in late 2009, and since then I have seen (or at least heard) a fair proportion of species recorded within my home country of Trinidad & Tobago.

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Rupununi River Cruise

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After a well-deserved rest following a very profitable morning’s birding in the nearby Moco-moco village , we took the short walk from our lodge down to the dock. The second bird followed suit, physics itself noisily straining to keep the bird airborne as it wheeled overhead. Finally, I was able to lay my own eyes on one.

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The Birds of Trinidad and Tobago: Two Guides, One Book Review

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There were three profound questions my birding group discussed while we birded Trinidad and Tobago, back in December 2012: (1) How many Bananaquits could fit on a banana? (2) 3) What was the best guide to the birds of Trinidad and Tobago? The bird guide question was a conundrum.

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