An exciting new project needs your support!

Help support Nils Navarro’s newest project: an updated, comprehensive field guide to the birds of his beloved home country. This is an ambitious and exciting venture, and we need you to make it a reality!

The Caribbean region is among the richest and most unique of biodiversity. This island, in particular, contains an extraordinary number of endemic species (27). These incredible birds are found nowhere else on Earth! Take, for example, the iconic Bee Hummingbird, considered to be the smallest bird in the world.

This island generally lacks quality identification resoureces for its flora and fauna and those that exist, in spite of their enormous contributions, are somewhat outdated. Field guides are essential to conservation as they play a key role in surveys and monitoring.

There has never been a better time to produce a guidebook like this. For the first time in the history of the country, there is a local community movement of birdwatchers who are making significant contributions to the knowledge of local birds. This is accomplished through platforms based on citizen science and the local community requires an updated comprehensive field guides for identification. Many of these people use a field guide as the main tool for their work.

The new guide will contain the largest number of illustrations by species published by any guidebook on Caribbean birds. Nils will be accomplishing this over five years by drawing upon a thorough review of the literature, museum collections, field work; Nils’ personal experience, and his role as an eBird reviewer for the island. The field guide will cover the different species, subspecies and plumages, dimorphism and much more, through a new and practical structure never before used for such a guide.

If you prefer to donate via check, please make the check out to BirdsCaribbean and mail to: BirdsCaribbean, 841 Worcester St. #130, Natick, MA 01760. In the check memo, note that the donation is for Nils' book.

Thanks to those that have already donated cash or in-kind support, including Holbrook Travel, Ediciones Nuevos Mundos, Caribbeam Conservation Trust, Wildlife Conservation Society, and Optics of the Tropics.