Host: Shireen Aga & Barbara Walker
When: Anytime
Length of stay: Any length.
Minimum number of guests: One
Languages: English, German is spoken fluently. Barbara speaks French well
too.
Fee: Rooms have a daily cost of US$180/230 per person during peak season and $125/160 during off season, which is May 1 to December 1. Local guides will cost extra.
You can read about the hotel on the hosts' Jamaica's Heart & Soul program.
Jamaica's heritage in birds is rich, as over 300 species have been observed
here; this includes migrant species that spend the wintering months here. -
The island of Jamaica has an astonishing 28 endemic species of birds, not to
mention its host of multi-island endemics and Neotropical migrants. Jamaica
has the highest number of endemic birds in the Caribbean. The Jamaican
national bird, the Doctor bird, also known as the Red-billed Streamertail
(Trochilus polytmus) is one of Jamaica's endemic species, found no where
else in the world.
Well over half of Jamaica's endemic birds can be seen at or on the
surrounding grounds of the hotel. A day drive to the nearby Blue Mountains
gives you the chance to clean up on the remaining specialty birds as well as
experience the true beauty of Jamaica's interior. The hotel is one of the best spots to see the Black-billed Streamertail.
BIRDS SIGHTED AT
HOTEL MOCKING BIRD HILL
Jamaican Endemics:
1. Ring-tailed Pigeon Columba caribbaea Endangered
2. Jamaican Parakeet Aratinga nana
3. Chesnut-bellied Cuckoo Hyetinis pluvialis Rare
4. Jamaican Owl Pseudoscops grammicus
5. Jamaican Mango Anthracothorax mango
6. Black-billed Streamertail Trochilus scitulus Endangered
7. Jamaican Tody Todus todus
8. Jamaican Woodpecker Melanerpes radiolatus
9. Sad Flycatcher Mysiarchus barbirostris
10. Rufous-tailed Flycatcher Myiarchus validus Rare
11. Jamaican Becard Pachyrampus niger
12. Jamaican Crow Corvus jamaicensis
13. White-chinned Thrush Turdus aurantius
14. Jamaican Euphonia Euphonia jamaica
15. Jamaican Stripe-headed Tanager Spindalis nigricephalus
16. Orangequit Euneornis campestris
17. Jamaican Oriole Icterus leucopteryx
18. Jamaican Elenia
Subspecies
1. Northern Patoo Nyctibius jamaicensis
2. Bananaquit Coereba flaveola
3. Caribbean Dove Leptotila j. jamaicensis
4. Common Ground Dove Columbina passerina jamaicensis
5. Vervain Hummingbird Mellisuga m. minima
6. Loggerhead Kingbird Tyrannus caudifasciatus jamaicacensis
7. Greater Antillean Bullfinch Loxigilla violaceus ruficollis
8. Greater Antillean Grackle Quiscalus niger crassirotris
Other Species
Northern Mockingbird
Worm-eating Warbler
Ovenbird
Grey King Bird
White Crowned Pigeeon
Northern Parula Warbler
American Redstart
Black-throated Green Warbler
Turkey Vulture
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Greenrumped Parrotlet
Ruddy Quail Dove
Prairie Warbler
Cape May Warbler (migrant)
Stolid Flycatcher
Black and white Warbler (migrant)
Blackpoll Warbler
Mourning Warbler (migrant)
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