seabirds of the bvi
If bird watching is your passion, there are yacht crews in the BVI that will be happy to take you bird spotting. Although, you cannot find colorful parrots, you can find Egrets, Pelicans, Flamingo's and more! The Caribbean region has over 600 species of birds, including 22 species of seabirds, however population levels have decreased substantially. Here in the BVI we have 15 species of seabirds including Audubon's Shearwater, Red-billed tropical bird, White-tailed tropical bird, Brown Pelican, Brown Booby, Magnicficent Frigate, Laughing Gull, Gull-billed Tern, Sandwich Tern, Cayenne Tern, Roseate Tern, COmmon Tern, Least Tern, Bridled Tern, and Brown Noddy.
If you would like to read more, here is a PDF of a report on the Seabirds of the BVI.
This is a PDF of Island Birds This article was taken from the BVI Welcome Magazine
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Pelican, Laughing Gulls on Little Jost Van Dyke. DId you know that Laughing Gulls are called Laughing Gulls as they make a "ha, ha, ha" sound!
Brown Booby Bird
Pelican in Flight. Did you know that in 1960 they were almost extinct in the BVI?
The Magnificent Frigate Bird. Did you know in the BVI we have two world significant colonies of these birds? On Great Tobago and Anegada!
On the dock at Little Jost Van Dyke
Our Brown Pelicans can have up to a 7 and a foot wing span and there is a major colony of them on Guana Island!
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