Like the Flamingo, the colour of the Scarlet Ibis comes from eating beta-carotene rich foods, like shrimps and crabs. Photo by Valerie licensed CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Visitors to Trinidad and Tobago will enjoy delicious food like potato roti, as well as the rhythmic sounds of steel pan and calypso music! But nothing can compare to watching thousands of brilliant streaks of red shooting across a clear blue sky as the Scarlet Ibis make their way to Caroni Swamp to settle in before nightfall. The Scarlet Ibis is the national bird of the twin islands. It feasts on red crustaceans, which are crabs, and this bird can grow from around 55 to 76 centimetres in length!
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