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Lesser Antillean Specialties

10,000 Birds

I first considered speaking about the Lesser Antillean Tanager – quite a beauty of a tanager that’s found only on Grenada and St. Lesser Antillean Tanager – Grenada Lesser Antillean Tanager – St. This is not about every endemic found in the region but only those carrying the regional designation.

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Another Endemic Amazona

10,000 Birds

There were many other birds puttering around in the bushes nearby, but there was no way I was going to be distracted by a confiding Grenada Flycatcher and miss the target bird of the morning. The Grenada Flycatcher can only be found on St. Vincent and neighbouring Grenada. Well, maybe a tiny bit distracted.

Grenada 130
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Birds of the West Indies by Kirwan, Levesque, Oberle & Sharpe

10,000 Birds

Trinidad and Tobago, Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire) and that border is known as the Bond’s line. One other Bond’s legacy lives within it, the very concept of the West Indies zoogeographical sub-region as we know it today. In the 1970s Bond proposed borders of the region, excluding the islands along the South American continental shelf (e.g.