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Chacachacare Island

10,000 Birds

Some famous (and famously questionable) personalities have also visited in the past, names like Christopher Columbus and Donald Trump come to mind. An interesting species we managed to discern in the predawn light was a Bicolored Conebill foraging in some small trees along the shoreline. Northern Scrub Flycatcher.

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The Lost Macaw of Cuba

10,000 Birds

The species that manage to colonize these islands evolve in competition with relatively few other species, developing survival strategies based on interdependence, co-evolution, and mutualism rather than adapting to deal with a broad range of predators and competitors. A species, wiped off the earth, never to exist again.

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