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Grey Kingbird

By: Ed Drewitt Grey Kingbird, Credit: Ed Drewitt When I stay at Anse Chastanet I love listening to the dawn chorus, when everything begins to sing in the half light as I’m waking up. The first birds to sing are the grey kingbirds, followed by the zenaida doves. They are…

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St Lucia Oriole

By: Ed Drewitt I love going to countries where there are endemics, species only found on those islands. They take my imagination back to when the ancestors of these birds were first making land fall on St Lucia hundreds of thousands of years ago if not millions of years ago….

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Grey Trembler

In this series of blogs, Ed Drewitt freelance naturalist, broadcaster and wildlife detective highlights a different St Lucia bird each week. In this edition the Grey Trembler By: Ed Drewitt My first recollection of a grey trembler was seeing one coming to Anse Chastanet’s Treehouse Restaurant at breakfast time looking to…

Broad-winged Hawk

In this series of blogs, Ed Drewitt freelance naturalist, broadcaster and wildlife detective highlights a different St Lucia bird each week. In this edition the Broad-winged Hawk By: Ed Drewitt When I see the broad-winged hawks in St Lucia they remind me of our larger common buzzards back at home which…

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The St Lucia Warbler

In this series of blogs, Ed Drewitt freelance naturalist, broadcaster and wildlife detective highlights a different St Lucia bird each week. In this edition the St Lucia Warbler By: Ed Drewitt I usually encounter St Lucia warblers when I least expect to. Unlike bananaquits and Lesser Antillean bullfinches, they are less…