Have recently returned from a Princess cruise in the Lesser Antilles - Nov. 14th - 21st. We did whatever birding we could, depending on tours we took or the independant taxi tour we could find. In some cases we just walked through the ports we docked in, and birded along the way. We visited the following locations:
San Juan, Puerto Rico
St Lucia
Barbados
Antigua
St Maarten
St Thomas
I will post more information about the birding possibilities on each island later, but in the meantime here's a list of the 58 species seen on these islands:
Magnificent Frigatebird
Masked Booby
Brown Booby
Brown Pelican
Mallard
White-cheeked Pintail
Tricolored Heron
Little Blue Heron
Little Egret
Snowy Egret
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
Osprey
Broad-winged Hawk
American Kestrel
Common Moorhen
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Ruddy Turnstone
Least Sandpiper
Black-necked Stilt
Semipalmated Plover
Ring-billed Gull
Laughing Gull
Royal Tern
Sandwich Tern
Rock Dove
White-crowned Pigeon
Scaly-naped Pigeon
Zenaida Dove
White-winged Dove
Common Ground-Dove
Budgerigar
Monk Parakeet
Mangrove Cuckoo - heard only
Purple-throated Carib
Green-throated Carib
Antillean Crested Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Gray Kingbird
Bare-eyed Robin (Thrush)
Northern Mockingbird
Tropical Mockingbird
Pearly-eyed Thrasher
Barn Swallow
House Sparrow
Yellow Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Bananaquit
Black-faced Grassquit
Lesser Antillean Bullfinch
Lesser Antillean Saltator
Greater Antillean Grackle
Carib Grackle
San Juan, Puerto Rico
St Lucia
Barbados
Antigua
St Maarten
St Thomas
I will post more information about the birding possibilities on each island later, but in the meantime here's a list of the 58 species seen on these islands:
Magnificent Frigatebird
Masked Booby
Brown Booby
Brown Pelican
Mallard
White-cheeked Pintail
Tricolored Heron
Little Blue Heron
Little Egret
Snowy Egret
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
Osprey
Broad-winged Hawk
American Kestrel
Common Moorhen
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Ruddy Turnstone
Least Sandpiper
Black-necked Stilt
Semipalmated Plover
Ring-billed Gull
Laughing Gull
Royal Tern
Sandwich Tern
Rock Dove
White-crowned Pigeon
Scaly-naped Pigeon
Zenaida Dove
White-winged Dove
Common Ground-Dove
Budgerigar
Monk Parakeet
Mangrove Cuckoo - heard only
Purple-throated Carib
Green-throated Carib
Antillean Crested Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Gray Kingbird
Bare-eyed Robin (Thrush)
Northern Mockingbird
Tropical Mockingbird
Pearly-eyed Thrasher
Barn Swallow
House Sparrow
Yellow Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Bananaquit
Black-faced Grassquit
Lesser Antillean Bullfinch
Lesser Antillean Saltator
Greater Antillean Grackle
Carib Grackle
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