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Guadaloupe

Summer Tanager Piranga rubra ŠSteve Blain http://www.steveblain.co.uk

You will notice that there is no introduction to this section yet.

I would like to fill this gap with an introduction from a local birder [or someone who is a frequent visitor] for every on of the geographical pages. The many thousands of birders now regularly using these pages prefer to read something written by someone who can see the place from an insider's point of view. They know the best spots, not just the ones that first time overseas visitors usually visit or that are on the normal birding trip itineraries.

Each introduction carries the e-mail address of the contributor so that birders can get in touch with them if, for example, they are planning a trip [unless the contributor is unable to do this].

Please get in touch if you feel you can contribute an introduction to this page - you don't have to be an expert; I'm not!

numbers

Number of bird species:144

useful reading

The Birds of the West Indies

By Herbert Raffaele, James Wiley, Orlando Garrido, Allan Keith & Janis Raffaele
Helm Field Guides Sept 2003 Paperback RRP ?16.99p
See Fatbirder Review
ISBN: 0713654198
Buy this book from NHBS.com

useful information

Proact

Coordinator: none (why not apply?) see http://www.proact-campaigns.net/coordinators
Members: None yet!
Join us at http://www.proact-campaigns.net/team

reserves

Biodiversity and Protected Areas

http://earthtrends.wri.org/pdf_library/country_profiles/Bio_cou_312.pdf
Nature Reserves, Wilderness, Areas, and National Parks etc...

Parc National de la Guadeloupe

http://www.guadeloupe-parcnational.com/site.html
Les réserves de biosphčre sont des aires portant sur des écosystčmes terrestres ou côtiers (oů les 2 ŕ la fois); reconnues au niveau international dans le cadre du programme d l`UNESCO sur l`homme et la Biosphčre (MAB) comme sites privilégiés pour la promotion, et la démonstration des relations équilibrées entre les ętres humains et la nature...

trip reports

Travelling Birder
http://www.travellingbirder.com
The Travellingbirder.com birding trip report search engine guides you to 7,000+ birding trip reports on the Internet. You can search for trip reports from a specific country and time of year. Not all these reports are in English. So, if you cant find the trip report you want on this Fatbirder page give them a try!

1995 [May] - Thierry Fournet

http://maybank.tripod.com/Caribbean/Guadeloupe-05-95.htm
Only 45 species were seen. There are very few identification problems thanks to island isolation, it`s possible to rely on distribution to do a first sorting out. Except in tropical rain-forest, birds are usually tame and approachable.

1999 [November] - Frank Frazier

http://maybank.tripod.com/Caribbean/Caribbean-11-99.htm
Thought it might be of interest to give a brief report of the highlights of a trip I took with my N.J. friend Bill Weiss, to some principal islands of the Lesser Antilles in hopes of seeing their endemics and specialties - we visited Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent, ending up with one night and morning in Puerto Rico. I had been to Guadeloupe in 1994 but the rest were new.

tour operators

Birding Pal

http://birdingpal.org/Guadeloup.htm
Local birders willing to show visiting birders around their area...

places to stay

Hotel La Toubana

http://www.geographia.com/bestfitacc/hlinfo.asp?Hotel=22&agency_id=0
Hilltop bungalows overlooking the Caribbean Sea and leading down to a beach at Sainte Anne...

Flora & Fauna

http://www.antilles-info-tourisme.com/guadeloupe/faunegb.htm#faune
...a huge variety of birds: colibris, sugar birds with yellow bellies, cow herons, blackbirds, the black woodpecker in the rain forest, moorhens in the Mangrove, wild ducks, and at the sea pelicans, frigate birds, brown gannets and seagulls...