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Jamaica

Jamaica is a magical place, full of endemic birds like this Red-billed Streamertail. We’ll stay at Marshall’s Pen, a Jamaican “Great House” and home to our host Ann Sutton. Many Jamaican endemics can be seen from the breakfast table, a Jamaican Tody, for example… …a Jamaican Oriole… …or the blue-in-good-light Orangequit. We’ll venture from Marshall’s Pen to the “Cockpit Country,” with its limestone hills… …and to unassuming local spots like this little marsh… …where one year we found more than 40 Masked Ducks… …or to a pond hosting West Indian Whistling-Ducks. Other areas we’ll visit include the glorious Blue Mountains, looming in the distance here… …and up close at our hotel at the pass between them and the Port Royal Mountains. Several of the endemic birds can be seen on the grounds, such as this fearless Sad Flycatcher. This is also where the little-known Jamaican Blackbird occurs… …as does the strange, pink-toed Blue Mountain Vireo. We’ll stay in lovely villas on the northeastern coast… …where the birdy ground also overlook a lovely bay. Not far away near the town of Hector’s River we’ll scan the scenic cliffs… …which host a small colony of White-tailed Tropicbirds… (photo; Gavin Bieber) …while Loggerhead Kingbird—a sub-canopy species, unlike most other kingbirds—can be found island-wide. Many other forms of life are also endemic: a male Jamaican Turquoise Anole… …or the fascinating euphorbia relative Phyllanthus, with terminal branchlets that look like leaves… …the endemic False Androgeus Swallowtail… …or the endemic Jamaican Flasher. Jamaica has many grand aspects, but it may be something small that is most evocative….like Vervain Hummingbird, the world’s second-smallest bird.

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