Birders visit on Celebrity Reflection

John Webster (L) with his group

On Tuesday over 25 birders arrived on board the ship Celebrity Reflection, to see the Birds of Barbados. While Barbados is not known as one of the "Birdiest" islands in the Caribbean, it does have a reputation for attracting birds uncommon to this part of the world. They saw old-world birds like Glossy Ibis, Grey Heron, and Little Egret, also island specialties such as our endemic Barbados Bullfinch, Grassland Yellowfinch, and Black-bellied Whistling Duck, and not to forget the Caribbean endemics such as Caribbean Martin, Caribbean Elaenia and the two hummers - Green-throated Carib and Antillean Crested Hummingbird. The participants also got to see our beautiful island, as they moved around between birding locations, touching all 11 parishes.  At the end of the day over 45 species were tallied among the two groups  

Birds seen on the day:

1. Black-bellied Whistling-Duck (Dendrocygna autumnalis) +200
2. Blue-winged Teal (Spatula discors)
3. Pied-billed Grebe (Podilymbus podiceps)
4. Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) (Columba livia (Feral Pigeon))
5. Scaly-naped Pigeon (Patagioenas squamosa)
6. Eurasian Collared-Dove (Streptopelia decaocto)
7. Common Ground Dove (Columbina passerina)
8. Zenaida Dove (Zenaida aurita)
9. Eared Dove (Zenaida auriculata)
10. Green-throated Carib (Eulampis holosericeus)
11. Antillean Crested Hummingbird (Orthorhyncus cristatus)
12. Sora (Porzana carolina)
13. Common Gallinule (Gallinula galeata)
14. American Coot (White-shielded) (Fulica americana (White & Red shielded))
15. Black-bellied Plover (Pluvialis squatarola)
16. American Golden-Plover (Pluvialis dominica)
17. Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres)
18. Stilt Sandpiper (Calidris himantopus)
19. Sanderling (Calidris alba)
20. Least Sandpiper (Calidris minutilla)
21. Semipalmated Sandpiper (Calidris pusilla)
22. Wilson's Snipe (Gallinago delicata)
23. Spotted Sandpiper (Actitis macularius)
24. Solitary Sandpiper (Tringa solitaria)
25. Greater Yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca)
26. Lesser Yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes)
27. Royal Tern (Thalasseus maximus)
28. Magnificent Frigatebird (Fregata magnificens)
29. Brown Booby (Sula leucogaster)
30. Gray Heron (Ardea cinerea)
31. Great Egret (Ardea alba)
32. Little Egret (Egretta garzetta)
33. Snowy Egret (Egretta thula)
34. Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis)
35. Green Heron (Butorides virescens)
36. Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus)
37. Rose-ringed Parakeet (Psittacula krameri)
38. Caribbean Elaenia (Elaenia martinica)
39. Gray Kingbird (Tyrannus dominicensis)
40. Caribbean Martin (Progne dominicensis)
41. Shiny Cowbird (Molothrus bonariensis)
42. Carib Grackle (Quiscalus lugubris)
43. Yellow Warbler (Golden) (Setophaga petechia [petechia Group])
44. Bananaquit (Coereba flaveola)
45. Barbados Bullfinch (Loxigilla barbadensis)
46. Black-faced Grassquit (Melanospiza bicolor)