It was a dark and stormy day when we went to see the beautiful scarlet ibises, Trinidad's national bird, at Caroni Swamp.
(To see more about them, click here.)

 

Click thumbnails for larger versions of most birds here
Only part of our group made the long, early trip to see the most spectacular sighting, the rare Piping Guan.	The Asa Wright  feeders drew hundreds of birds, including Bananaquits,  Purple Honeycreepers and Green Honeycreepers.	Possibly the most common bird sighted throughout the Islands was the ubiquitous Bananaquit.	Bananaquits filled the palms in Tobago as well. (MD)
Green Honeycreeper	Purple Honeycreepers	Unidentified hummingbird. (Any suggestions?) (JD)	Crested Oropendola
Copper-rumped hummingbird (JD)	Violaceous Trogon	Palm Tanagers tending young on porch of Asa Wright. (JD)	A couple days later, the young were ready leave.
Even blurred, you can see why this is called a Chestnut Woodpecker. (JD)	Pied Water-tyrant	Red-breasted Blackbird	Wattled Jacana
Savanna (or Red-winged) Hawk	Rufous-vented Chacalaca	Three chacalacas head over the fence on the grounds of the Blue Water Inn, Tobago (JD)	These Southern Lapwing parents had their young out for a stroll in the mountains of  Tobago.
White-tailed Sabrewing	Ruddy Turnstones on beach at Tobago	Collared Trogon (Tobago)	Blue-crowned Motmot

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