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Overview
Grenada is, of course, a major tourist destination, with the majority of the visitors arriving by air or cruise ship.
Airlines:
Grenada's Point Salines International Airport (PSIA) is open daily from 5:00 am to 11:00 pm. In the UK, British Airways, Virgin and Golden Caribbean - Excel continue to service Grenada with weekly direct flights from London's Gatwick Airport. Caribbean Airlines (formerly BWIA) has daily direct flights from London's Heathrow Airport to Antigua, Barbados, St. Lucia and Trinidad, with same day connections via LIAT into Grenada.
In the US, Air Jamaica and American Eagle continue to service Grenada with direct flights from New York / Montego Bay and Puerto Rico respectively.
In Canada, Air Canada Vacations operates a weekly service from Toronto to Grenada during the Winter season (December to April) with easy connections from Halifax, Montreal and Ottawa. Year round, Air Canada and Caribbean Airlines operate regularly scheduled flights from Toronto and Montreal to Barbados and Trinidad respectively, with connections into Grenada via LIAT.
LIAT provides connections into Grenada's Point Salines International Airport, from various Caribbean islands along with connections to International flights from Antigua, Barbados, St. Lucia and Trinidad.
Conviasa Airlines provides a twice weekly service from Porlamar, Margarita into Grenada.
Carriacou's Lauriston Airport continues to be serviced by daily flights from Grenada with SVG Air.
Birds
Notable Species
The critically endangered Grenada Dove is endemic to the island.
Rarities
Check-list
Birds you can see here include:
"to do"
Birds seen on December 2005 trip by John Furse:
Pied-billed Grebe Tropicbird sp WHITE PELICAN sp Brown Pelican Red-footed Booby Brown Booby Magnificent Frigatebird Great Blue Heron Great Egret Little Blue Heron TRICOLOURED HERON Snowy Egret Cattle Egret Green Heron Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Blue-winged Teal Osprey Hook-billed Kite Broad-winged Hawk Merlin Peregrine Falcon Sora Common Moorhen Caribbean Coot Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Wilson’s Plover Wilson’s Snipe Whimbrel Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Spotted Sandpiper Ruddy Turnstone Red Knot Stilt Sandpiper Laughing Gull Royal Tern Rock Pigeon (introduced) Scaly-naped Pigeon Eared Dove Zenaida Dove Common Ground-Dove
- GRENADA DOVE ***
Ruddy Quail-Dove Mangrove Cuckoo Smooth-billed Ani Antillean Crested Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher
- GRENADA FLYCATCHER**
Gray Kingbird Caribbean Martin Bank Swallow Barn Swallow WHITE-WINGED SWALLOW House Wren Tropical Mockingbird Bare-eyed Thrush Northern Waterthrush Bananaquit Lesser Antillean Tanager Blue-black Grassquit Yellow-bellied Seedeater Black-faced Grassquit Lesser Antillean Bullfinch Carib Grackle Shiny Cowbird
Other Wildlife
Site Information
History and Use
Areas of Interest
Contact Details
Rex Grenadian email: [email protected]
Rex website: http://www.rexresorts.com/_caribbean/_grenada/_grenadian/index.html
Almost Paradise: http://www.almost-paradise-grenada.com
Anthony Jeremiah email: [email protected] - website: www.Guidedbirding.com
Car hire: www.skyviews.com/grenada/carhire.html
Stanford’s, London: www.stanfords.co.uk
Scaramouche schooner: www.grenadasunsation.com
External Links
Grenada Official Tourist website
Online road map: http://www.skyviews.com/grenada/grenadamap.html (hard copy freely distributed by hotels, car hire companies, etc)
Content originally posted by jthoppes
