Où observer les oiseaux en République Dominicaine ?

Hispaniola is the second largest island in the Caribbean after Cuba. Two sovereign nations share the 76,480 square kilometres island, the Dominican Republic, with 48,445 square kilometres, is nearly twice as large as its neighbor, Haiti. The island has five major mountain ranges. The Cordillera Central, spans the central part of the island, extending from the south coast of the Dominican Republic into northwestern Haiti. This mountain range boasts the highest peak in the Antilles, Pico Duarte at 3,087 meters above sea level.
The geographic isolation and the diversity of habitats (humid and dry tropical forests, clow rainforest, pine forests, thorny bushy areas, mangroves, brackish lagoons, salt marshes, dunes) explain the ornithological diversity country: 306 species of birds, including 31 endemic and 50 endemic subspecies, have been inventoried. If the Haitian territory has been massively been deforested, there are still large forest tracts on the Dominican side. This country has created the largest protected areas system in the Caribbean (24% of the territory have been classified into parks or reserves).
Alicia Abdool and Jerome Bergerou present us the the National Park del Este, where it is possible to watch several endemic birds, including the Hispaniolan Parrot. We also propose you a selection of several other good birding areas.