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Familiar Faces in Guyana

10,000 Birds

It was a Black-headed Parrot , a species that I had meagrely attempted to see in Trinidad once without success. Double-toothed Kite The overlap in avifauna between Trinidad and Guyana is significant at one end and unavoidable at the other. Chestnut Woodpecker , another familiar. I relished the opportunity.

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Birding the Trinity Hills

10,000 Birds

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. The three main peaks of the Trinity Hills are what gave it its name, and by extension the island of Trinidad.

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