Celebrate the Caribbean Endemic Bird Festival (CEBF) with us! Our theme in 2024 is  “Protect Insects, Protect Birds”—highlighting the importance of protecting insects for birds and our environment. Have fun learning about a new endemic bird every day. We have colouring pages, puzzles, activities, and more. Download for free and enjoy learning about and celebrating nature! Endemic Bird of the Day: Puerto Rican Oriole If the early bird gets the worm, the Puerto Rican Oriole (Icterus portoricensis) really has an edge on the competition! These charismatic birds (called Calandrias in S ..read more

Celebrate the Caribbean Endemic Bird Festival (CEBF) with us! Our theme in 2024 is  “Protect Insects, Protect Birds”—highlighting the importance of protecting insects for birds and our environment. Have fun learning about a new endemic bird every day. We have colouring pages, puzzles, activities, and more. Download for free and enjoy learning about and celebrating nature! Endemic Bird of the Day: La Sagra’s Flycatcher Weep. A pause. Weep. A pause. Weep. You hear the sound of wings fluttering briefly and the clickety-clack of a beak snapping shut. The weeping continues.  You p ..read more

Celebrate the Caribbean Endemic Bird Festival (CEBF) with us! Our theme in 2024 is  “Protect Insects, Protect Birds”—highlighting the importance of protecting insects for birds and our environment. Have fun learning about a new endemic bird every day. We have colouring pages, puzzles, activities, and more. Download for free and enjoy learning about and celebrating nature! Endemic Bird of the Day: Blue Mountain Vireo The Blue Mountain Vireo is not blue in colour, doesn’t sing the blues, and is not restricted to the Blue Mountains in Jamaica as its name suggests. However, it is know ..read more

Celebrate the Caribbean Endemic Bird Festival (CEBF) with us! Our theme in 2024 is  “Protect Insects, Protect Birds”—highlighting the importance of protecting insects for birds and our environment. Have fun learning about a new endemic bird every day. We have colouring pages, puzzles, activities, and more. Download for free and enjoy learning about and celebrating nature! Endemic Bird of the Day: Hispaniolan Emerald See them sparkle. See them shine. These birds are looking mighty fine. Both in name and in plumage, the Hispaniolan Emerald is a literal gem of a bird!  True to t ..read more

Celebrate the Caribbean Endemic Bird Festival (CEBF) with us! Our theme in 2024 is  “Protect Insects, Protect Birds”—highlighting the importance of protecting insects for birds and our environment. Have fun learning about a new endemic bird every day. We have colouring pages, puzzles, activities, and more. Download for free and enjoy learning about and celebrating nature! Endemic Bird of the Day: Cuban Gnatcatcher Did you know that in Cuba we have a miniature endemic mockingbird? That’s right! It’s the Cuban Gnatcatcher, known locally as ‘Sinsontillo’—which means mockingbird! Just ..read more

Cuban conservationist Yaro Rodríguez. Illegal trapping and trafficking of wild birds have long been a serious problem in Cuba. Due to the rise of social media and economic problems caused in part by the pandemic, it recently reached a crisis point, with tens of thousands of resident and migratory birds captured every year. In 2023, Cuban conservationist Yaro Rodríguez and his partner, artist and ornithologist  Nils Navarro, were awarded a Betty Petersen Conservation Fund grant to grow the nascent bird watching movement in Cuba as a way to improve the knowledge of Cuban avifauna and promo ..read more

Mary Fulford brings dynamism and innovation to the sustainable tourism space! Through Island Mystique, she offers exciting, culturally immersive adventures. From delightful foodie deep dives featuring the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) must-try dishes, to handcrafting with local artisans, to listening as historians weave folklore tales by the crackle of a fire pit—Mary promises to take visitors off the beaten path by sharing the TCI that exists beyond the ‘sun, sea and sand’. Passionate about connecting guests to the wondrous diversity of her islands, Mary seized the opportunity to join the C ..read more

Aliya Hosein, Co-Regional Coordinator of the Caribbean Endemic Bird Festival. One of the issues that the birding community has been working on for the last several years is how we can be more welcoming and inclusive of all birders—beginner birders and future potential birders—to join us and share the joy of birding. It’s an issue to which passionate birders, Hannah Buschert, and her husband Erik, have given a great deal of thought, and which led to the creation of Women Birders (Happy Hour) podcast.  Their ‘happy hour’ podcast is dedicated to broadcasting the lived experiences of women, f ..read more

BirdsCaribbean brings you highlights from the Journal of Caribbean Ornithology in our feature “Just Published in JCO.” Here, Zoya Buckmire, the Lead Copy Editor for the Journal of Caribbean Ornithology, explores the innovative methods Caribbean researchers are using to overcome the challenges of monitoring bird populations.  Roseate Tern adult on its nest incubating an egg and panting in the heat. Shark Cay, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. (Photo by Daniel Nellis) Long-term monitoring of bird populations would be a breeze if scientists had unlimited time and money. In the real world, ho ..read more

BirdsCaribbean brings you highlights from the Journal of Caribbean Ornithology in our feature “Just Published in JCO.” Here, Zoya Buckmire, the Lead Copy Editor for the Journal of Caribbean Ornithology, gives us a behind-the-scenes look at various research on birds and their conservation in Grenada. Ramon Williams and John Holas conducting bird surveys on Hog Island. Our feathered friends do not have it easy in today’s world. They face a myriad of threats from hunting, to habitat loss and land-use change, to climate change and all its related impacts. These challenges are especially felt by b ..read more