Pearly-eyed Thrasher - St Kitts - March 2018
Photographed running through an African Tuliptree, Spathodea campanulata, at Romney Manor. This species is a generalist, and a colonizer, doing poorly in species-rich habitats, but attaining spectacular densities in disturbed or species-poor areas (which is what most small Caribbean islands are).
Thus, the pearly-eye is confined to about 80 generally small, often disturbed, species-poor islands and habitats throughout the Caribbean archipelago over a north-south geographical range of almost 3,000 km. With the exception of the island of Puerto Rico (895,000 km2), on which it is common only in species-poor habitats, the pearly-eye is noticeably absent from the larger islands, such as Cuba, Hispaniola, and Jamaica, inhabiting only their species-poor satellite islands (from neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/)
Pearly-eyed Thrasher - St Kitts - March 2018
Photographed running through an African Tuliptree, Spathodea campanulata, at Romney Manor. This species is a generalist, and a colonizer, doing poorly in species-rich habitats, but attaining spectacular densities in disturbed or species-poor areas (which is what most small Caribbean islands are).
Thus, the pearly-eye is confined to about 80 generally small, often disturbed, species-poor islands and habitats throughout the Caribbean archipelago over a north-south geographical range of almost 3,000 km. With the exception of the island of Puerto Rico (895,000 km2), on which it is common only in species-poor habitats, the pearly-eye is noticeably absent from the larger islands, such as Cuba, Hispaniola, and Jamaica, inhabiting only their species-poor satellite islands (from neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/)