SOUTHEASTERN CARIBBEAN BIRDS PHOTO GALLERY |
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Trinidad and Tobago Field Naturalists' Club Southeastern Caribbean Bird Alert Trinidad and Tobago Rare Bird Committee |
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VIRGIN ISLANDS | ||||||||||
RARITIES Least Grebe (Tachybaptus dominicus): 1st breeding for St. John; St. Thomas Striated Heron (Butorides striatus): 1st for VI and Greater Antilles, 2nd for West Indies, at St. John Black-crowned Night-Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax): St. Thomas and St. John Greater Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber): reintroduced flock at Anegada West Indian Whistling-Duck (Dendrocygna arborea): 1st for St. Croix since 1941 American Black Duck (Anas rubripes): 1st for VI at St. Thomas Northern Shoveler (Anas clypeata): 2nd for St. Thomas Green-winged Teal (Anas crecca): St. Thomas Ring-necked Duck (Aythya collaris): St. Thomas Lesser Scaup (Aythya affinis): St. Croix Red-breasted Merganser (Mergus serrator): 1st for VI at St. John Ruddy Duck (Oxyura jamaicensis): St. Croix Purple Gallinule (Porphyrio martinica): 2nd for St. Thomas White-winged Tern (Chlidonia leucopterus): 1st for VI at St. Croix Eurasian Collared-Dove (Streptopelia decaocto): 1st for VI at St. Thomas White-winged Dove (Zenaida asiatica): St. Thomas (1st breeding) and St. John Magnolia Warbler (Dendroica magnolia): St. Thomas Yellow-throated Warbler (Dendroica dominica): St. Thomas Bay-breasted Warbler (Dendroica castanea): 1st for St. Thomas, 4th for VI Connecticut Warbler (Oporornis agilis): 2nd for VI, between Virgin Gorda and St. Croix Scarlet Tanager (Piranga olivacea): St. Thomas Lesser Antillean Bullfinch (Loxigilla noctis): 1st confirmed for St. Thomas IDENTIFICATION ESSAYS (photographic essays of challenging identification problems) American Coot and Caribbean Coot (Fulica americana and F. caribaea) Sandwich Tern and Cayenne Tern (Sterna sandvicensis acuflavida and S. s. eurygnatha) BIZARRE BIRDS Audubon's Shearwater (Puffinus lherminieri): white undertail coverts Zenaida Dove (Zenaida aurita): partially leucistic and slightly leucistic individuals at St. Thomas Pearly-eyed Thrasher (Allenia fusca): leucistic individual at St. John Bananaquit (Coereba flaveola): partially leucistic individual at St. Thomas |
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