
Happy (belated) Biodiversity Day! Or if you prefer the long-winded version, International Day for Biological Diversity.
It’s interesting how one creature can capture your imagination – and make your day. In my case, that creature is most likely to be a bird. This happened a few weeks ago, as the BirdLife Jamaica “posse” set out to see as many endemic bird species as possible (that is, those that live only in Jamaica – and there are twenty-nine of them, more than any other Caribbean island).
The bird in question was the Ring-tailed Pigeon. And not just one, but a “plenty of pigeons.”
Sunday, May 22 was the last day of BirdsCaribbean’s Caribbean Endemic Bird Festival (CEBF), which began on Earth Day, April 22. This year’s CEBF theme has been “Loving Birds is Human Nature,” and nothing…
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