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| Northern Pintail (L) and 3 Blue-winged Teal |
BIRD 100!! Yippee!!.
For third years in a row, 2014, 15 and now 16, I reach the mark of 100
bird species for Barbados. This year I started with a bang coming out of
January with sixty-one species but going into November with seven need in a
poor migration season, I thought I would not have made it. Then I landed six species in November leaving
me with just one more to get which I did on December 08.
Bird 100
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| Northern Pintail |
I found my 100th at the Woodbourne Shorebird
Refuge (WSR) while doing a little after work birding. When I first saw this
bird I knew right away I had not seen it for the year as yet. It was an elegant
looking duck, long necked and a dark grey bill and stood at a length of 21”. It
was a Northern Pintail (Anas
acuta). The bird was sitting among a
flock of Blue-winged Teal (Anas discors) and Black-bellied Whistling-Duck (Dendrocygna
autumnalis) but it was easy to see the female Pintail by its size, long neck
and reddish head.
My next target will be 105 species which would surpass the
104 I did in 2015, the most I’ve ever recorded in a year. So I’ll be ending the year with a bang.
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