Photo Gallery
Gavin Bieber
The name Puerto Rico conjures images of palm-lined beaches…
…but the island also supports a wealth of birdlife like the bold Pearly-eyed Thrasher
…and the diminutive Antillean Crested Hummingbird.
Forested national parks are sprinkled around the island…
…providing habitat for the 17 endemic birds including 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 introduced species such as Pin-tailed Whydah to round out a diverse avifauna.
Cliffs along the island’s scenic NW coast support…
…breeding White-tailed Tropicbirds…
…while coastal mangroves forests hold…
…the endemic subspecies of Lesser Antillean Pewee (soon to be the island’s 18th endemic)…
…and the always popular Mangrove Cuckoo.
We’ll stay in a comfortable apartment style hotel on the southern coast…
…with wonderful ocean views from the individual terraces.
Our attention may by the occasional amphibian…
…as we explore the moist highland forests in the islands center…
…with huge terrestrial bromeliads…
…and endemic butterflies like this Modest Sister.
Scaly-naped Pigeons…
…share the sweeping vistas with us…
…as we seek the furtive Elfin Woods Warbler, first described in 1972…
The southwest corner of the island supports a dry thornscrub, where…
…Adelaide’s Warbler…
…and Caribbean Martin can be quite common
On the beaches and salt flats of Cabo Rojo…
…we’ll seek out shorebirds such as Wilson’s Plover…
..and watch the curious Ghost crabs…
…under skies that seem to stretch on forever.