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Guadaloupe (visit this page on fatfisherman.com)

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Guadeloupe is an island group or archipelago located in the eastern Caribbean Sea at Coordinates: 16�15′N 61�35′W, with a land area of 1,628 square kilometres (629 sq. mi). It is an overseas department of France. As with the other overseas departments, Guadeloupe is also one of the twenty-six regions of France (being an overseas region) and an integral part of the Republic. As part of France, Guadeloupe is part of the European Union; hence, as for most EU countries, its currency is the euro. However, Guadeloupe does not fall under the Schengen Agreement. The capital of Guadeloupe is Basse-Terre.

Guadeloupe comprises five islands: Basse-Terre Island, Grande-Terre (separated from Basse-Terre by a narrow sea channel called Salt River) with the adjacent islands of La D�sirade, Les Saintes and Marie-Galante. Basse-Terre has a rough volcanic relief while Grande-Terre features rolling hills and flat plains.

Further to the north, Saint-Barth�lemy and the French part of Saint Martin once came under the jurisdiction of Guadeloupe but on December 7, 2003, both of these areas voted to become an overseas territorial collectivity, a decision which took effect on February 22, 2007.

contributor

Wikipedia
(GNU Free Documentation License)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guadeloupe

numbers

Number of bird species: 144

useful reading

The Birds of the West Indies

By Herbert Raffaele, James Wiley, Orlando Garrido, Allan Keith & Janis Raffaele
Helm Field Guides Sept 2003 Paperback RRP ?16.99p
See Fatbirder Review
ISBN: 0713654198
Buy this book from NHBS.com

useful information

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reserves

Biodiversity and Protected Areas

http://earthtrends.wri.org/pdf_library/country_profiles/Bio_cou_312.pdf
Nature Reserves, Wilderness, Areas, and National Parks etc...

Parc National de la Guadeloupe

http://www.guadeloupe-parcnational.com/site.html
Les r�serves de biosph�re sont des aires portant sur des �cosyst�mes terrestres ou c�tiers (o� les 2 � la fois); reconnues au niveau international dans le cadre du programme d l`UNESCO sur l`homme et la Biosph�re (MAB) comme sites privil�gi�s pour la promotion, et la d�monstration des relations �quilibr�es entre les �tres humains et la nature...

trip reports

Travelling Birder
http://www.travellingbirder.com
The Travellingbirder.com birding trip report search engine guides you to 7,000+ birding trip reports on the Internet. You can search for trip reports from a specific country and time of year. Not all these reports are in English. So, if you can�t find the trip report you want on this Fatbirder page� give them a try!

1995 [May] - Thierry Fournet

http://maybank.tripod.com/Caribbean/Guadeloupe-05-95.htm
Only 45 species were seen. There are very few identification problems thanks to island isolation, it`s possible to rely on distribution to do a first sorting out. Except in tropical rain-forest, birds are usually tame and approachable.

1999 [November] - Frank Frazier

http://maybank.tripod.com/Caribbean/Caribbean-11-99.htm
Thought it might be of interest to give a brief report of the highlights of a trip I took with my N.J. friend Bill Weiss, to some principal islands of the Lesser Antilles in hopes of seeing their endemics and specialties - we visited Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent, ending up with one night and morning in Puerto Rico. I had been to Guadeloupe in 1994 but the rest were new.

2004 [March]

http://www.baladeornithologique.com/Ag/GuadeloupeEN.htm

tour operators

Birding Pal

http://www.birdingpal.org/Guadeloup.htm
Local birders willing to show visiting birders around their area...

places to stay

Hotel La Toubana

http://www.deshotelsetdesiles.com/hotel-guadeloupe/hotels_guadeloupe.php?products_id=33&language=en
Hilltop bungalows overlooking the Caribbean Sea and leading down to a beach at Sainte Anne...

Checklist

http://www.oiseaux.net/birds/guadeloupe.html

Flora & Fauna

http://www.antilles-info-tourisme.com/guadeloupe/faunegb.htm#faune
...a huge variety of birds: colibris, sugar birds with yellow bellies, cow herons, blackbirds, the black woodpecker in the rain forest, moorhens in the Mangrove, wild ducks, and at the sea pelicans, frigate birds, brown gannets and seagulls...