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South Soufriere Hills
South Soufriere Hills is a 35 ha patch of forest on the island of Montserrat, a British Overseas Territory in the Leeward Islands of the Caribbean Sea. It forms one of the territory's Important Bird Areas (IBAs). Description The IBA comprises the largest remnant of Montserrat's native forest in the Soufrière Hills, in the exclusion zone. It has survived the volcanic eruptions and pyroclastic flows that have devastated and depopulated the southern half of the island since the late 1990s. It lies only about 1.5 km south of 915 m Chances Peak, the highest point of the island and the Soufrière Hills stratovolcano. It ranges in elevation from 200 to 750 m above sea level and contains tropical evergreen forest. Other IBAs on the island are the Northern Forested Ghauts and Centre Hills. Birds The IBA was identified as such by BirdLife International because it supports, populations of bridled quail-doves, green-throated caribs, Antillean crested hummingbi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centre Hills
Centre Hills is a forest reserve on the island of Montserrat, a British Overseas Territory in the Leeward Islands of the Caribbean Sea. It forms one of the territory's Important Bird Areas (IBAs), which encompasses the forest reserve as well as additional habitat for the Montserrat oriole, the territory's endemic, and critically endangered, national bird. Description The 1112 ha IBA comprises the largest remnant of Montserrat's native forest. It encompasses the highlands of the northern half of the island from an elevation of 150 m up to the 741 m summit of Katy Hill. The terrain is steep, largely trackless, and riven by the ‘ghauts’, or ravines, that radiate into the islands's northern lowlands. Rainfall increases with altitude, and the vegetation changes from tropical dry forest at the lower elevations, through tropical evergreen forest to elfin forest at the summit. Most of the forest is secondary or regrowth, following historic land clearance for plantatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montserrat Oriole
The Montserrat oriole (''Icterus oberi'') is a medium-sized black-and-yellow icterid (the same family as many blackbirds, meadowlarks, cowbirds, grackles, and others, including the New World orioles). It inhabits the Centre Hills and South Soufriere Hills Important Bird Areas on the island of Montserrat in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, and is the national bird of this British territory. It is threatened by habitat loss, and until 2016 was classified by BirdLife International as Critically Endangered, with a current estimated population of between 200 and 800. Much of its habitat was destroyed by deforestation, Hurricane Hugo and the volcanic activity between 1995 and 1997. The oriole once was found in three main areas: the bamboo forest east of Galways Soufrière, the leeward slopes of the Chances Peak mountain and the Centre Hills (especially the Runaway Ghaut area). The diet of the bird consists mainly of insects and fruits. The birds usually lay two spotted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forest Thrush
The forest thrush (''Turdus lherminieri'') is a species of bird in the family Turdidae. It was historically the sole species within the genus ''Cichlherminia'', however the AOU reclassified the species to the genus ''Turdus'' in 2009. This is a medium-sized thrush at 25–27 cm long and weighing 100–110 g. Like many thrushes, the forest thrush has brown upperparts with pale underparts showing a scaly pattern of coloration. However, for a thrush it has an unusually wide band of bare skin around each eye. It is endemic to the Lesser Antilles, an island group in the Caribbean. It can be found, though uncommon to rare, on Dominica, Guadeloupe, Montserrat, and Saint Lucia. Its natural habitat is tropical moist mountain forest. Two subspecies occur: the Montserrat race and the Dominica race, distinguished by the amount of scaling on the breast. The Dominica race has a white belly and scaled breast, the Montserrat race has scaling all the way from the breast through t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brown Trembler
The brown trembler (''Cinclocerthia ruficauda'') is a species of bird in the family Mimidae, the mockingbirds and thrashers. It is found on the islands of Saba, St. Kitts, Nevis, Montserrat, Guadeloupe, Dominica and St. Vincent in the Lesser Antilles of the Caribbean Sea.Sibbald, E. (2020). Brown Trembler (''Cinclocerthia ruficauda''), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.brotre1.01 retrieved August 3, 2021 Taxonomy and systematics The taxonomy of genus ''Cinclocerthia'' is not fully resolved. The International Ornithological Committee (IOC) recognizes the brown trembler and the grey trembler (''C. gutturalis''). It divides the brown trembler into four subspecies, the nominate ''C. r. ruficauda'', ''C. r. pavida'', ''C. r. tremula'', and ''C. r. tenebrosa''. However, there is significant phylogenetic evidence that brown tremblers from Guadeloupe northwards may represent a se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pearly-eyed Thrasher
The pearly-eyed thrasher (''Margarops fuscatus'') is a bird in the thrasher family Mimidae. It is found on many Caribbean islands, from the Bahamas in the north to the Grenadines in the south, with an isolated subspecies on Bonaire. Description The pearly-eyed thrasher is the largest species in the Mimidae, growing to 28 to 30 cm (11 to 11.8 inches) in length. Taxonomy Its genus, ''Margarops'', is currently considered monotypic; formerly the scaly-breasted thrasher was placed in the same genus. However, ''M. fusctaus'' is now known to be closer to the '' Cinclocerthia'' tremblers. While this is not a migratory bird, considerable gene flow between populations appears to have taken place at least until fairly recently in its evolutionary history. There are four subspecies, two of which can be distinguished genetically: ''M. f. fuscatus'' (the nominate subspecies, which is found between the Greater Antilles and Antigua and Barbuda), and ''M. f. densirostris'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scaly-breasted Thrasher
The scaly-breasted thrasher (''Allenia fusca'') is a species of bird in the family Mimidae. It is found throughout much of the Lesser Antilles of the Caribbean Sea. Taxonomy and systematics The scaly-breasted thrasher was originally placed in genus ''Margarops'' with the pearly-eyed thrasher (''M. fuscatus'') but is now in the monotypic genus ''Allenia''. It has five subspecies: *''A. f. hypenema'' Buden (1993) *''A. f. vincenti'' Kratter & Garrido (1996) *''A. f. atlantica'' Buden (1993) *''A. f. schwartzi'' Buden (1993) *''A. f. fusca'' Müller (1776) Description The scaly-breasted thrasher is approximately long and weighs with an average weight of . With its rather short and slightly decurved bill, this thrasher resembles a thrush. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a dark gray-brown head and upperparts with a reddish tinge on the rump. Their tail is a darker brownish black and its outer feathers have white tips. The folded wing shows a single white bar. Their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antillean Crested Hummingbird
The Antillean crested hummingbird (''Orthorhyncus cristatus'') is a species of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae. Found across Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Montserrat, north-east Puerto Rico, Saba, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sint Eustatius, the British Virgin Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Lesser Antilles, while it has also been recorded as a vagrant in Florida, USA. Taxonomy In 1743 the English naturalist George Edwards included an illustration and a description of the Antillean crested hummingbird in his ''A Natural History of Uncommon Birds''. He used the English name "The crested humming bird". Edwards based his hand-coloured etching on a specimen collected in the West Indies. When in 1758 the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus updated his ''Systema Naturae'' for the tenth edition, he placed the Antillean crested hummin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green-throated Carib
The green-throated carib (''Eulampis holosericeus'') is a species of hummingbird in the subfamily Polytminae. It is found in Puerto Rico and most of the Lesser Antilles.HBW and BirdLife International (2020) ''Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife International digital checklist of the birds of the world'' Version 5. Available at: http://datazone.birdlife.org/userfiles/file/Species/Taxonomy/HBW-BirdLife_Checklist_v5_Dec20.zip xls zipped 1 MBretrieved May 27, 2021 Taxonomy and systematics The green-throated carib was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his ''Systema Naturae'' under the binomial name ''Trochilus holosericeus''. Linnaeus based his description on the "black-belly'd green huming bird" that had been described and illustrated by the English naturalist George Edwards in 1743. The type locality is the Lesser Antilles. The specific name is from the Ancient Greek ''holosērikos'' meaning "silken". The g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bridled Quail-dove
The bridled quail-dove (''Geotrygon mystacea'') is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is found from Saint Lucia in the Lesser Antilles north and west to Puerto Rico.Boal, C. W. (2020). Bridled Quail-Dove (''Geotrygon mystacea''), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.brqdov1.01 retrieved September 20, 2021 Taxonomy and systematics The bridled quail-dove is monotypic. It has been suggested that it and the Key West quail-dove (''Geotrygon chrysia'') form a superspecies. Description Specimens of bridled quail-dove from several islands had mean weights between with fairly large standard deviations. These data and measurements of various body parts suggest that the species "has low morphometric variance across its distribution." Adult bridled quail-doves are mostly brown. They have a bold white stripe across the face below the eye and a small white patch on the throa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BirdLife International
BirdLife International is a global partnership of non-governmental organizations that strives to conserve birds and their habitats. BirdLife International's priorities include preventing extinction of bird species, identifying and safeguarding important sites for birds, maintaining and restoring key bird habitats, and empowering conservationists worldwide. It has a membership of more than 2.5 million people across 116 country partner organizations, including the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, the Wild Bird Society of Japan, the National Audubon Society and American Bird Conservancy. BirdLife International has identified 13,000 Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas and is the official International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List authority for birds. As of 2015, BirdLife International has established that 1,375 bird species (13% of the total) are threatened with extinction ( critically endangered, endangered or vulnerable). BirdLife Internation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Forested Ghauts
The Northern Forested Ghauts constitute a tract of land on the island of Montserrat, a British Overseas Territory in the Leeward Islands of the Caribbean Sea. It forms one of the territory's Important Bird Areas (IBAs). Description The 498 ha IBA lies in the north of the island. It is disjunct, consisting of several linear sites radiating from the forested Centre Hills block of the island into the northern lowlands. The component sites encompass mainly northward flowing streams (the ravines of which are known locally as ‘ghauts’) that retain fringes and patches of remnant tropical deciduous and semideciduous native forest. Much of the native vegetation is fragmented and surrounded by cultivated and residential land. Other IBAs on the island are the Centre Hills and South Soufriere Hills. Birds The IBA was identified as such by BirdLife International because it supports populations of bridled quail-doves, purple-throated caribs, green-throated caribs, Antillean crest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
