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Be transported to the outskirts of a small village in eastern Curacao, in the southern Caribbean Sea. This dawn chorus features the calls of bananaquits, eared doves, bare-eyed pigeons, yellow orioles, brown-throated parakeets, tropical mockingbirds and Venezuelan troupials. Listen closely: can you hear the faint sound of dogs barking and cocks crowing in the distance?

Illustration of a Curacao Oriole from A record of an ornithological visit to the United States of Colombia, South America and to the island of Curaçao, West Indies, in the year 1892 – via the Internet Book Archive.