Bird by Bird you get to know the Caribbean...

When Birds Caribbean told me that “bird by bird I will get to know the Caribbean” I was totally unaware of the scale and extent of their promise!

Until then, the Caribbean to me was just rum, sun, beaches an and endless torrent of music in different tempos, languages and moods.

 

JAMAICAN TODY Check more pictures in this Flickr Album 

I had planned a visit to the Caribbean before but never got so close until 2 years ago when Caribbean Birding Trail (a project of Birds Caribbean) contacted Rick Morales to facilitate training birding guides in the Island of Grenada. Someway somehow Rick ended up contacting me to assist him on the training and there I was: in an island smaller than Coiba, Panama's largest island, but with so much more history and nature all packed in a mountain in the middle of the ocean!

JAMAICAN OWL Check more pictures in this Flickr Album 

This year we had the opportunity to train in Jamaica and my whole vision of the Caribbean got turned inside out and battered in a thick sauce of history, culture and flavors: exactly that component of the Caribbean that I did not understood until this trip.

Here are some pictures and videos of the Caribbean Birding Trail Guide Training in Jamaica. Enjoy them, share them, store them but don't forget: more than 700 islands are home to 178 endemic birds through the entire Caribbean Archipelago!