Jamaica

Heading out of Ecclesdown Road on the second day of my trip, I had nailed all of my targets save…

One of the perks about living in Miami is that plane tickets to the bird-rich Caribbean, Central, and South America…

The national bird of Jamaica is the Red-billed Streamertail, known colloquially as the Doctor Bird and scientifically as Trochilus polytmus….

Besides the avian attributes of flight, feathers and laying eggs, potoos are quite possibly the most unbird-like birds in the…

Besides my 3rd grade teacher, I had never encountered a witch before. That is until a recent Nikon’s BATV film…

“Jah Man (pronounced Jamon)” is something you will hear often when visiting Jamaica. You will hear it as a greeting, an…

The haunting call of the West Indian Whistling Duck has long been a sound synonymous with the ever-shrinking wetlands of…

An era of phenomenal photographic field guides is dawning, its golden rays finally extending all the way to the blue-water…

While we’re on the subject of truly sensational hummingbirds, I’d like to introduce one of the finest specimens to be…

Ecclesdown Road, a steep track that cuts through Jamaica’s lush John Crow Mountains, boasts some of the best birding in…