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Friday 13th July 2012, 07:59
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Advice - Isla de Providencia, Colombian Island
hi all - my first post on this forum!
I'm off on my honeymoon to Isla de Providencia, an island in the southwest part of the Caribbean. It belongs to Colombia, but is closer to Nicaragua (though not that close). Anyone been there, or been nearby with any advice? Recommend a good guidebook? I've never been to that part of the world so have no real idea what I should be looking out for... Many thanks in advance Zac |
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Friday 13th July 2012, 23:04
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Zac
Never heard of the island but looking on google maps you could try "Birds of Costa Rica" as a field guide which covers a decent amount of species or Panama and Central America. both of these will be available from NHBS or amazon. I have a loads of the "Mexico and Central America Fieldguides and there are just too many species for that type of island. Can I suggest you just enjoy your honeymoon and note what you can. Looking at the size of the island and its distance from the mainland I would not be too optomistic of a massive birdlist. How about field notes and internet search when you get home? A. |
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Saturday 14th July 2012, 01:14
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Providencia is actually covered in the Caribbean book by Raffaele. It has a relatively small number of species, and you might be able to get away with other field guides, but there is one with coverage.
I know nothing about locations on the island. Niels
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Saturday 14th July 2012, 14:09
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List for Providencia, Resident = R
Includes migrants found on nearby San Andres island that may not necessarily have confirmed record for Porvdencia. American Wigeon Gadwall Green-winged Teal Blue-winged Teal Cinnamon Teal Northern Shoveler Ring-necked Duck Lesser Scaup Ruddy Duck Pied-billed Grebe Sooty Shearwater Manx Shearwater Audobon’s Shearwater Brown Pelican American White Pelican Blue-footed Booby R Masked Booby R Red-footed Booby Brown Booby R Neotropical Cormorant Double-crested Cormorant Magnificent Frigatebird Black-crowned Night-Heron R Yellow-crowned Night-Heron R Green Heron R Striated Heron Cattle Egret R Great Blue Heron Great Egret Tricoloured Heron Snowy Egret Little Blue Heron Glossy Ibis Roseate Spoonbill Osprey Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk American Kestrel Merlin Peregrine Falcon Sora Common Moorhen Purple Gallinule American Coot Caribbean Coot Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Wilson’s Plover Kildeer Black-necked Stilt Common Snipe Long-billed Dowitcher Short-billed Dowitcher Whimbrel Spotted Sandpiper Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Willet Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Wilson’s Phalarope Parasitic Jaeger Laughing Gull Herring Gull Brown Noddy Sooty Tern Least Tern Caspian Tern Black Tern Common Tern Sandwich Tern Royal Tern Rock Pigeon R White-crowned Pigeon R White-winged Dove R Brown-throated Parakeet R Yellow-billed Cuckoo Mangrove Cuckoo R Smooth-billed Ani R Barn Owl R Lesser Nighthawk Common Nighthawk Antillean Nighthawk Chuck-will’s-Widow Chimney Swift Green-breasted Mango R Belted Kingfisher Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Caribbean Elaenia R Eastern Wood-Pewee Acadian Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Grey Kingbird Great-crested Flycatcher White-eyed Vireo Thick-billed Vireo R San Andres Vireo R Philadelphia Vireo Black-whiskered Vireo R Yellow-green Vireo Northern Rough-winged Swallow Purple Martin Sand Martin Barn Swallow Cliff Swallow Veery Grey-cheeked Thrush Swainson’s Thrush Wood Thrush Grey Catbird American Pipit Bananaquit R Black-faced Grassquit R Savannah Sparrow Blue-black Grassquit Summer Tanager Scarlet Tanager Rose-breasted Grosbeak Blue Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Dickcissel Golden-winged Warbler Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Chestnut-sided Warbler Yellow Warbler R Blackpoll Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cerulean Warbler Cape May Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler Prairie Warbler Palm Warbler American Redstart Black-and-white Warbler Protonotary Warbler Worm-eating Warbler Swainson’s Warbler Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Kentucky Warbler Mourning Warbler Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Wilson’s Warbler Canada Warbler Baltimore Oriole Bobolink |
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Sunday 15th July 2012, 16:51
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Thanks for the replies folks - really helpful.
I'll try to get hold of the Raffaele book, I imagine it will come in useful again (if I can afford to hit the caribbean again!) |
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Thursday 2nd August 2012, 18:43
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I won't profess to be an expert on birding, rather a local resident of Providencia Isla.
I believe the book I've seen people referring to locally is entitled "Birds of the Caribbean". There are few expert birdwatching guides on the island. In fact I believe there is only one - ask at the local National Parks office or the guy, whose name has slipped my mind.... There's a small wooden watch tower in the National Park that can be walked to from Maracaibo section... just follow the path... the best birdwatching is found in the National Park's mangroves. Try also the hike up to El Pico to spot more birds on the island. New luxury hotel in Isla Providencia just opened up, there are many other simpler accommodation options and posadas too. Come visit our paradise.... |
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Friday 3rd August 2012, 18:37
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BigChris, welcome to Birdforum!
Niels
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Sunday 9th September 2012, 07:41
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Returned from Providencia a couple of weeks ago and thought I'd report back in case anyone turns this thread up in the future.
As Chris says, it is indeed a paradise. We stayed in Deep Blue, which was a lovely luxury hotel. The frigatebirds really are something to behold and they patrol all day, and mob the fishermen cleaning their catches (the guys don't bat an eyelid at fifteen 2m wingspan birds wheeling around them!). We did a guided walk with a guy from the national park - Vanburen Ward. he was very knowledgable and took us deep into the mangroves to see a nice variety of waders. here's the list from our 2 hour walk: White-winged Dove Thick-billed Vireo Mangrove Cuckoo Black-faced Grassquit Banaquit Barn Swallow Green Heron Caribean Elaenia Whimbrel white-crowned Pigeon Prothonotary Warbler Yellow-Crowned Night-heron Black-necked Stilt Western Sandpiper Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Willet Semipalmated Plover Little Blue heron Least Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Great Blue Heron Yellow Warbler Great place. If you are there, and speak Spanish, you should definitely get in touch with Vanburen. |
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