Trinidad!
I was really fortunate in being invited to colead (with Merlin Tuttle and Geoffrey Gomes) a Bat Conservation International Founder’s Circle Tour to Trinidad in January. It was an amazing trip! We stayed at Asa Wright Nature Centre the entire time, and went out visiting bat and bird areas throughout the island.
There is a second trip in May - contact BCI (www.batcon.org) for details. In May we will also see breeding leatherback turtles!
Here are some of my favorite images from the trip:
Silky Anteater - fantastic!
That’s me, squeezing through a small tunnel in the Tamana Hill Bat Cave. I was happy to get back out! We saw eight of about 11 bat species that live in the cave.
- Jamaican Fruit-eating Bats in a tent
Bats exiting Tamana Hill Bat Cave
Green Honeycreeper - one of many fabulous birds seen
Special thanks to George Jett and Gwen Brewer (shown below) for letting me use their wonderful photos. I took the Silky Anteater image, they took the rest. Gwen has a Davy’s Naked-backed Bat flying over her head!
