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Birding St Lucia, South Africa

10,000 Birds

They mostly come to see the hippopotamuses and Nile crocodiles living in and near the Saint Lucia Estuary. Lucia for the birds. As this African Green Pigeon shows, the color should offer good camouflage for species living on trees. Different bird families, I know. Lucia with the Dark-capped Bulbul.

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Birds of the West Indies by Kirwan, Levesque, Oberle & Sharpe

10,000 Birds

Within its 400 pages, the Birds of the West Indies covers 712 species, 550 of them regularly occurring and 190 of those endemic to the region, many of them to single islands. Furthermore, there are six families confined to the Greater Antilles. If a species is monotypic, this is clearly stated.