| 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 2007 Census reveals over 95 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. 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. Nightjars are also easily seen at Cuffie River - indeed, guests can enjoy their company while they dine in the evenings!
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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Copper-Rumped Hummingbird
Collared Trogon*
Blue-crowned Motmot*
Rufous-tailed Jacamar*
Golden Olive Woodpecker
Red-rumped Woodpecker
Olivaceous Woodcreeper*
Buff-throated Woodcreeper
Stripe-breasted Spinetail
Gray-throated Leaftosser**
Barred Antshrike
White-fringed Antwren
Blue-backed Manakin*
Tropical Kingbird
Gray Kingbird
Brown-crested Flycatcher
Fuscus Flycatcher
Yellow-breasted Flycatcher
Streaked Flycatcher
Piratic Flycatcher
Ochre-bellied Flycatcher
Dusty Cap Flycatcher
Venezuelan Flycatcher
Yellow-bellied Elaenia
Pauraque
Plain Antvireo
Chevi Vireo
Solitary Sandpiper
Green Kingfisher
Smooth-billed Ani
Little Cuckoo
Bat Falcon
Peregrine Falcon
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Common Potoo*
Barn Swallow***
Red-legged Honeycreeper
Cattle Egret
Rufous-breasted Wren
House Wren
Tropical Mockingbird
Yellow-legged Thrush*
Bare-eyed Thrush
White-necked Thrush
Cocoa Thrush
Scrub Greenlet
Shiny Cowbird
Giant Cowbird
Crested Oropendola
Northern Waterthrush***
Bananaquit
Scarlet Tanager
Blue-gray Tanager
Palm Tanager
White-lined Tanager
Black-faced Grassquit
White-throated Spadebill
Ruddy Ground Dove
Caribbean Martin
Hooked-bill Kite
Red-crowned Woodpecker
Streak-headed Woodcreeper
Plain brown Woodcreeper
Great Egret
Violaceous Euphonia
White-throated Spadebill
Short-tailed Hawk*
Bay-headed Warbler
Blackpole Warbler
Striped Owl
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Birds found in the Cuffie River environs
Spotted Sandpiper
Laughing Gull
Brown Booby
Southern Lapwing
Brown Pelican
Yellow Warbler
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