With only a
few days at home after Baja California, I was on my way to Jamaica for my 20th
year of leading tours there. As always, I managed to find every endemic bird
for my group, with credit going of course to my co-leader Ann Sutton, as well
as to the participants who constantly are spotting good birds.
This
Jamaican Owl was hunting along the entrance road at Marshall’s Pen just a few
yards from our rooms in the “coffee store.” It’s always nice not to have to use
playback and to have views at eye level.
When the
possible list of birds is rather limited (even if fascinating), you turn to
other endemic taxa. This truly fabulous spider is the endemic, and essentially
unknown-in-life Micrathena rufopunctata.
This katydid
appears to be the endemic Jamaicoecia
milleri. As far as I can tell, like the spider, there are no live photos of
this species anywhere. If you didn’t see my submissions to iNaturalist, you saw
it here first.
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