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WINGS Birding Tours – Photo Gallery

Puerto Rico

The name Puerto Rico conjures up images of sandy palm lined beaches… …but the island also supports a wealth of birdlife like the bold Pearly-eyed Thrasher… …or the diminutive Antillean Crested Hummingbird. Several forested national parks are sprinkled around the island… …providing accessible habitat for the island’s 17 endemic birds, like the gaudy Puerto Rican Woodpecker… …Puerto Rican Tody… …Puerto Rican Spindalis… …and Puerto Rican Lizard-Cuckoo More widespread birds such as Smooth-billed Ani… …Gray Kingbird… …and maybe even a stray American Flamingo… …join several introduced species such as Pin-tailed Whydah to round out a surprisingly diverse avifauna. Cliffs along the island’s scenic NW coast support… …breeding White-tailed Tropicbirds. …while coastal mangroves hold… …foraging Tricolored Herons… …the endemic subspecies of Lesser Antillean Pewee (soon to be the island’s 18th endemic)… …and the always popular Mangrove Cuckoo. We stay in a very comfortable apartment style hotel on the islands south coast with a wonderful ocean view from the individual terraces. Our attention may be diverted from time to time by the occasional amphibian… …as we explore the moist highland forests in the islands center… …with huge terrestrial bromeliads… …and several endemic butterflies like this Modest Sister. Scaly-naped Pigeons… …share the sweeping vistas with us… …and it’s here that we’ll seek out the furtive Elfin Woods Warbler, described in 1972. The southwest corner of the island supports a dry thornscrub, where… …Adelaide’s Warblers… …and Caribbean Martins can be quite common. The point acts as safe harbor birds like Wilson’s Plover… …and curious Ghost crabs scuttle… under skies that seem to stretch on forever.

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