10,000 Birds
JANUARY 5, 2022
It may seem like an unnecessarily recurring theme in my posts about birding within Trinidad & Tobago, but the more I write on the subject the more it becomes apparent that the number three must have some significance, somewhere. Its inaccessibility has led to it not being birded often. Broad-winged Hawk. Up, then down.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 3, 2021
You may have heard the news that resonated throughout the international birding circuit some months ago – in case you missed it you can read my gloss-over here. The Tropical Parula is one of three resident warblers on Trinidad. New locations are going to yield new birds, such as this Sooty Grassquit. We got you.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 19, 2022
While the combination of the words “coast” and “forest” may conjure images of tidal mudflats and mangroves or even coconut trees, the northern coastline of Trinidad features tropical rainforest that plunges steeply into the bejeweled waters of the Caribbean Sea. It almost looks as if the bird is underwater!
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 5, 2013
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.
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. Naturally, I had to investigate. Then a second, and a third.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 6, 2021
For the fifth year in a row, I was assigned the prolific and well-known Aripo Livestock Station at the foothills of Trinidad’s Northern Range. Overzealous might be a word appropriate to describe me on a birding morning – arriving there well before sunrise. But birds (and the thoughts of birds) always prevail in my world.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 18, 2020
Going birding is even more of a no-brainer now than before. Many moons ago, when I used to work in the (supposedly) booming petrochemical industry in Trinidad, most of my time was actually spent birding. Before we got to our destination, I pulled the car over to investigate an almost deafening twittering. Sign me up!
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