ADORABLE! Owls in Love The Cayman Islands are so popular for activities, diving, watersports and fine dining that few people are aware of the 200+ species of birds that reside or migrate through all three islands. POPULAR BIRD WATCHING SPOTS ► QE II Botanic Park ► Colliers Pond ► Salina Reserve ► Majestic Reserve ► Cayman Brac is home to a 180-acre parrot reserve where you can glimpse the rare, endangered Brac Parrot. ► Little Caymans Booby Pond Reserve protects the habitat of the brown and red-footed boobies, hosting the largest colony of red-footed boobies in the Western Hemisphere. ► Species sighted in the Cayman Islands to date: ► Tricoloured Herons, Common Moorhen, Green Herons, Black-necked Stilts, American Coots, Blue-winged Teal, Cattle Egrets and rare West Indian Whistling Ducks. Red-footed booby, brown booby, magnificent frigatebird, white-tailed tropicbird and least tern. ► Over 70 species of non-breeding wetland migrants include: egrets, ducks, plovers, sandpipers, even flamingos and spoonbills make an occasional visit. Those who give their offspring Cayman birthrights include the pied-billed grebe, West Indian whistling-duck, tri-coloured and green herons, yellow-crowned night-heron, willet, and black-necked stilt. ► Summer breeding visitors include: least terns, white-tailed tropicbird, gray kingbird, black-whiskered vireo and Antillean nighthawk. Island landbirds include Caribbean elaenia, loggerhead kingbird, bananaquit, thick-billed vireo, vitelline warbler, zenaida dove and red-legged thrush. For more details about bird watching in the Cayman Islands, see National Trust for the Cayman Islands * * * #birds #bird #watching
Posted on: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 00:52:17 +0000
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