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The following is a list of the bird species recorded in Haiti. The avifauna of Haiti included a total of 275 species according to Bird Checklists of the World (Avibase) as of October 2024. [1] Of them, 11 have been introduced by humans and 62 are rare or accidental. One is endemic to Haiti and an additional 29 species are endemic to the island ...
There are over 200 species of avifauna, including the palmchat, La Selle thrush, introduced guineafowl, and grey-crowned tanager which is unique to Haiti. [4] BirdLife International has identified 10 Important Bird Areas in Haiti, which cover about 23,200 hectares (57,000 acres) (1% of land area of Haiti). Of these, five are located in the four ...
In 1921 the American ornithologist James L. Peters restricted the type locality to Port-au-Prince in Haiti. [ 10 ] The Greater Antillean grackle is now one of seven species placed in the genus Quiscalus (six extant and one extinct ), that was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816.
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Hispaniolan trogon. Trogons are brightly coloured birds with long, strongly graduated tails, small feet, and short, thick bills. The Hispaniolan trogon has metallic green upperparts, a gray throat and breast, and a red belly and is separated from the closely related Cuban trogon by the more typical tail of this species.
The palmchat (Dulus dominicus) is a small, long-tailed passerine bird, the only species in the genus Dulus and the family Dulidae endemic to the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (split between the Dominican Republic and Haiti). It is related to the waxwings, family Bombycillidae.
The attack against the library’s collection of rare books and manuscripts documenting 200 years of Haitian history came after a series of other assaults against other institutions, including ...
The Birds of Haiti and the Dominican Republic is a book published as no.155 in the zoological monograph series Bulletin of the United States National Museum. It was authored by Alexander Wetmore , with the assistance of Bradshaw H. Swales, and was published by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC in 1931.