Saw Wet Hawk!
This raptor may not be in the West Indies, but Latin for Red-tailed Hawk is … Buteo jamaicensis. I think this young Red-tail had just taken a bath in the little waterway in my backyard. He didn’t mind my taking
March 2021
James Bond, Marine Biologist
When ornithologist Jim Bond went on expeditions to the West Indies for the Academy of Natural Sciences in the 1920s and early 1930s, he collected many species of fish. Several of those species later turned up in an Ian Fleming
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Happy Birthday, Orlando Garrido!
One of the highlights of my trip to Cuba in 2016 was meeting the great ornithologist Orlando Garrido. I met him as part of a group of birders who visited Cuba with the Caribbean Conservation Trust. The biggest reason for
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