This month, we are going on a journey exploring the biodiverse Caribbean region in search of the endemic warblers of the area. Our guide for this voyage will be the Valley's own Larry Therrien. It promises to be an informative trip to the various islands that contain endemic warblers from the Cayman Islands to St. Vincent, to Barbuda, to the Bahamas and everywhere in between.  Each new species was an adventure and you can come along for the ride.  

Larry Therrien is probably the most prolific birder in western Massachusetts, and can be found out birding most days in Hampshire County and around the Quabbin.  He is the eBird reviewer for the three counties of the Connecticut River valley of Massachusetts, a former member of the Massachusetts Avian Records Committee, annually conducts a number of breeding bird surveys of various types, and guides a bit in the area. The number of checklists he has submitted to eBird is the most in the state by a very wide margin (more than twice the second-place observer) and ranks 10th in the entire US. He has traveled extensively in Central and South America as well as throughout the Caribbean with the focus of most of these trips being new world warblers. We can follow his adventures through his blog "Quabbin Birding and Beyond", or his more targeted and international passion through "The Pursuit of Warblers". He lives in Belchertown with his wife Sherri and their dog Wilson, and retired last summer after 33 years in firefighting and EMS, 25 of them with Northampton Fire Rescue. 

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