In the midst of a global pandemic, medical professionals have been heralded as heroes, with some even rising to the status of pop culture...
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Over President’s Day weekend my family and I took a much-needed break in Jamaica. We landed mid-afternoon on the fifteenth of February and flew...
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Heading out of Ecclesdown Road on the second day of my trip, I had nailed all of my targets save four species (Caribbean Dove,...
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One of the perks about living in Miami is that plane tickets to the bird-rich Caribbean, Central, and South America are often cheaper than...
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The national bird of Jamaica is the Red-billed Streamertail, known colloquially as the Doctor Bird and scientifically as Trochilus polytmus. It is endemic to...
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Besides the avian attributes of flight, feathers and laying eggs, potoos are quite possibly the most unbird-like birds in the world. Sometimes called “Poor-me-ones”...
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Besides my 3rd grade teacher, I had never encountered a witch before. That is until a recent Nikon’s BATV film trip to Jamaica revealed...
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“Jah Man (pronounced Jamon)” is something you will hear often when visiting Jamaica. You will hear it as a greeting, an affirmation and as encouragement....
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