The CEB festival runs from Earth day on April 22nd until May 22nd Migratory bird day and 13 Caribbean islands currently take part. Groups on these islands hold events which basically encourage people to be aware of how special and important the Caribbean is as a biodiversity hotspot.
As Rowan and I didn’t think we’d be busy enough with our research work and managing a team of 8 volunteers we decided we should try and get Bonaire involved too. Technically Bonaire has only one endemic bird, the subspecies of Brown-throated Conure. It is possibly one of the commonest birds on the island but we didn’t think these details were any reason not to be involved!!! Rather we thought it would be a good opportunity to shout some more about the lora (the amazon parrot’s local name).
We’ve organised a bunch of events including talks, parrot watching trips for school children. Parrot nest finding and an oriole count (a beautiful yellow bird) and hopefully it’ll all go to plan! We have produced posters for the whole event and for the talks and thanks to a journalist who believes in what we are doing we will be getting plenty o f air time on the local radio station.
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