UK OVERSEAS TERRITORIES CONSERVATION FORUM
Virtual Tours: Montserrat
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Bird Watching: The lush, forested Centre Hills are renowned for their biological diversity and are home to the thirty-four species of resident land birds and migrant songbirds that inhabit the island. Birdwatchers will delight in a chance to spot Montserrat's rare national bird, the endemic Montserrat oriole. If your guide is one of the experienced forest rangers, he may imitate its call and signal to you when it is in sight. You may also be able to see the forest thrush, the shy bridled-quail dove, the mangrove cuckoo, the trembler and the purple-throated carib.

Scaley-breasted thrasher Margarops fuscus on Heliconia


© Dr Mike Pienkowski
(Opportunities, 2 of 6 - Slide ref. 450)