| Bird-watching
Wildlife greets you on your entrance to Cuffie River, with bands of parrots flying overhead as they make their way to and fro, or hummingbirds of many species whizzing past, mere centimetres from your face. The Cuffie River Nature Retreat and eco-lodge offers the finest in bird watching and nature tours. Walk in the surroundings and encounter some 30 species of tropical birds before breakfast! Truly a birding paradise, you will wonder what kept you from coming before to visit this unique Tobago resort. View at close range the nesting and feeding habits of species, call the birds and be answered in return, observe patterns of socialization between and among species or simply sit back and bask in the sheer beauty of these exotic birds. Follow the nesting patterns from courtship to the laying and hatching of eggs, to observing the parents helping the fledglings leave the nest by teaching them to fly.
Our current Census reveals 100 species to be found at the Retreat and its environs . These include all of the most sought-after exotic birds such as the White-tailed Sabrewing Hummingbird, Blue-Backed Manakin, the Ruby Topaz Hummingbird, the Collared Trogon, the Blue-Crowned Mot Mot, the Yellow-Legged Thrush, the Common Potoo, Striped Owl and the Gray Leaftosser. Recently we have also found an albino hummingbird (specie not yet defined) on the property. Many feathered friends come visiting at your window and in your room. Others prefer to have you visit them in their personal hideaways as you go on your bird-watching and nature tours. The Common Potoo and the White-tailed Nightjar both keep you company at dinnertime, perched opposite to the guest dining area where they feed on insects from the adjacent yard light.
Talk about keeping good company at the eco-lodge!
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* Among the most sought after species
** Official re-discovery record for Tobago
*** Non-Breeding Migrant |
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Orange-winged Parrot
Yellow-billed Cuckoo ***
Smooth-billed Ani
Striped Owl *
Common Potoo *
White-tailed Nightjar *
Gray-rumped Swift
Short-tailed Swift
Rufous-breasted Hermit
White-tailed Sabrewing *
White-necked Jacobin
Black-throated Mango
Ruby-topaz Hummingbird *
Copper-rumped Hummingbird
Collared Trogon *
Green Kingfisher *
Trinidad Motmot *
Rufous-tailed Jacamar *
Red-crowned Woodpecker *
Red-rumped Woodpecker
Golden-olive Woodpecker
Stripe-breasted Spinetail
Gray-throated Leaftosser **
Olivaceous Woodcreeper *
Cocoa Woodcreeper
Plain-brown Woodcreeper
Barred Antshrike
Plain Antvireo
White-fringed Antwren *
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Yellow-bellied Elaenia
Ochre-bellied Flycatcher
Yellow-breasted Flycatcher
Fuscous Flycatcher *
Piratic Flycatcher
Streaked Flycatcher
Tropical Kingbird
Gray Kingbird
Dusky-capped Flycatcher *
Venezuelan Flycatcher *
Brown-crested Flycatcher
Blue-backed Manakin *
White-winged Becard *
Red-eyed Vireo
Scrub Greenlet
Caribbean Martin
Barn Swallow ***
(Tropical) House Wren
Rufous-breasted Wren
Yellow-legged Thrush *
White-necked Thrush
Spectacled Thrush
Tropical Mockingbird
Bananaquit
White-lined Tanager
Blue-gray Tanager
Palm Tanager
Scarlet Tanager ***
Red-legged Honeycreeper *
Blue-black Grassquit
Black-faced Grassquit
Northern Waterthrush ***
Blackpoll Warbler ***
Crested Oropendola
Giant Cowbird
Shiny Cowbird
Carib Grackle
Violaceous Euphonia
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Birds found in the Cuffie River environs
Brown Pelican
Brown Booby
Southern Lapwing
Spotted Sandpiper
Laughing Gull
Roseate Tern
Royal Tern
Yellow Warbler
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