Stilt Sandpiper | Sabine’s Gull | Nazca Booby | Cocos Booby | Western Cattle-Egret | Broad-winged Hawk | Zone-tailed Hawk | Tropical Kingbird | Pacific Wren | White Wagtail | Grasshopper Sparrow | Clay-colored Sparrow | Dark-eyed “Gray-headed” Junco | Dark-eyed “Pink-sided” Junco | White-throated Sparrow | Green-tailed Towhee | Ovenbird | Black-and-white Warbler | Prothonotary Warbler | Tennessee Warbler | Lucy’s Warbler | Northern Parula | Blackburnian Warbler | Chestnut-sided Warbler | Palm Warbler | American Redstart | Painted Redstart | Summer Tanager
Broad-billed Hummingbird | Ridgway’s Rail | Sabine’s Gull | Nazca Booby | White-headed Woodpecker | Tropical Kingbird | Gray Catbird | Evening Grosbeak | Cassin’s Finch | Clay-colored Sparrow | Dark-eyed “Gray-headed” Junco | Green-tailed Towhee | Black-and-white Warbler | American Redstart | Northern Parula | Chestnut-sided Warbler | Palm Warbler | Summer Tanager | Indigo Bunting
White-winged Dove | Ridgway’s Rail | Arctic Tern | Sabine’s Gull | Nazca Booby | Masked / Nazca Booby | Cocos Booby | WHITE IBIS | Western Cattle-Egret | Broad-winged Hawk | Zone-tailed Hawk | Flammulated Owl | White-headed Woodpecker | Tropical Kingbird | Plumbeous Vireo | Pinyon Jay | Clarks Nutcracker | Gray Catbird | Sage Thrasher | Varied Thrush | Evening Grosbeak | Red Crossbill | Chestnut-collared Longspur | Clay-colored Sparrow | Dark-eyed “Gray-headed” Junco | Swamp Sparrow | Green-tailed Towhee | Bobolink | Black-and-white Warbler | Tennessee Warbler | Lucy’s Warbler | American Redstart | Blackburnian Warbler | Chestnut-sided Warbler | Rose-breasted Grosbeak | Dickcissel
Ridgway’s Rail | Sabine’s Gull | Manx Shearwater| Nazca Booby | Cocos Booby | Western Cattle-Egret | Williamson’s Sapsucker | Tropical Kingbird | Least Flycatcher | Pinyon Jay | Clark’s Nutcracker | Yellow-green Vireo | Evening Grosbeak | Lark Bunting | Clay-colored Sparrow | Green-tailed Towhee | Orchard Oriole | Northern Waterthrush | Black-and-white Warbler | Tennessee Warbler | Lucy’s Warbler | American Redstart | Northern Parula | Magnolia Warbler | Blackburnian Warbler | Chestnut-sided Warbler | Blackpoll Warbler | Palm Warbler | Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Ridgway’s Rail | Semipalmated Sandpiper | Red Phalarope | Common Tern | Little Gull | Least Bittern | Reddish Egret | Williamson’s Sapsucker | Tropical kingbird | Least Flycatcher | Bell’s Vireo | Yellow-Green Vireo | Pinyon Jay | Clark’s Nutcracker | Purple Martin | Evening Grosbeak | Black-throated Sparrow | Clay-colored Sparrow | Green-tailed Towhee | Bobolink | Orchard Oriole | Ovenbird | Northern Waterthrush | Black-and-white Warbler | Prothonotary Warbler | Tennessee Warbler | Lucy’s Warbler | American Redstart | Cape May Warbler | Northern Parula | Blackburnian Warbler | Chestnut-sided Warbler | Blackpoll Warbler | Summer Tanager | Rose-breasted Grosbeak | Indigo Bunting | Painted Bunting | Dickcissel
T he U.S. Virgin Islands – St. Croix, St. Thomas, St. John, and dozens of minor islands – serve as a fuel and rest stop for hundreds of thousands of birds traveling north and south over the Caribbean Sea during spring and winter migration. In all, more than 140 species of birds have been recorded in the coastal wetlands, mangrove forests and salt ponds, dry and moist forests, and along the rocky cliffs and coves, making the USVI worthy of a birding adventure. I headed there recently to learn about the challenges facing birds on these remote islands and to discover exciting new birds for my life list.
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