I’m sure (hoping) that at least one person noticed my missing post this month – I was on a blitz of the Lesser Antilles,...

Originally, I was going to highlight one of the species endemic to the islands of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean; but once I...

The islands of the Caribbean are home to 176 species of endemic birds unevenly distributed across the region. Some islands host one or two...

This near-mythical parrot has captivated my subconscious from the moment I learned of its existence. A massive (largest member of the Amazona group of...

I remember being mortified at the depiction of a hummingbird on a Caribbean Airlines jet many years ago for the bird’s very obvious aqua-hued...

The tiny islands of the southern Caribbean are much more famous for sprawling white sand beaches and azure water as they are for birds;...

Sitting pretty as the sole member of the genus Catharopeza, the Whistling Warbler is an oddity in many respects. Endemic to a tiny island...

Jim Wright’s latest book is The Real James Bond, the biography of the ornithologist whose name Ian Fleming stole for his secret agent 007....