Animal Farm is a great place for birdwatching and has the record for the
greatest number of species seen in any single morning of birdwatching in
Jamaica!
This was achieved on Sunday December 2, 2001 during a visit of BirdLife
Jamaica to the farm over that weekend (December 1, 2).
In all, 44 species were seen, and they are listed below :
- Little Blue Heron
- Cattle Egret
- Green-Backed Heron
- American Kestrel
- Turkey Vulture
- White-Crowned Pigeon
- Ground Dove
- Rufous-Tailed Flycatcher
- Stolid Flycatcher
- Sad Flycatcher
- Loggerhead
- Jamaican Pewee
- Jamaican Elaenia
- Jamaican Becard
- White-Chinned Thrush
- Northern Mockingbird
- Jamaican Oriole
- Jamaican Euphonia
- Orangequit
- Bananaquit
- Greater Antillean Bullfinch
- Yellow-Faced Grassquit
- Chestnut Bellied Cuckoo
- Smooth Billed Ani
- Greater Antillean Grackle
- Jamaican Crow
- Jamaican Blackbird
- Jamaican Vireo
- Northern Parula
- Black & White Warbler
- Black Throated Blue Warbler
- Prairie Warbler
- Palm Warbler
- American Redstart
- Louisiana Waterthrush
- Common Yellowthroat
- Jamaican Tody
- Jamaican Woodpecker
- Streamertail Hummingbird
- Vervain Hummingbird
- Mango Hummingbird
- Yellow-Billed Parrot
- Jamaican Parakeet
- Jamaican Parrotlet
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