Ecotourism On Acklins & Crooked Island

Turtle Sound, Thompson and Atwood Creeks are natural inland habitats for marine birds, and you'll also see flocks at French Wells, on the cliffs and reefs. Regular bird sightings include flamingos, Caribbean parrots, white-tailed tropicbirds, zenaida doves, Bahama woodstars, Bahama mockingbirds, pearly eyed thrashers, thick-billed vireos, bananaquits, stripe-headed tanagers, black-faced grassquits, white-crown pigeons, piping plovers, egrets, night herons, and greater Antillean bullfinches. There is also “Tarpon Hole,” a blue hole where tarpon fish breed, and you can see iguanas, other exotic wildlife and some lovely rare orchids on Acklins.