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Jamaican Woodpecker
The Jamaican woodpecker (''Melanerpes radiolatus'') is a species of bird in subfamily Picinae of the woodpecker family Picidae. It is endemic to Jamaica. Taxonomy and systematics The Jamaican woodpecker has sometimes been placed in genus ''Centurus''. It is monotypic. Description The Jamaican woodpecker is about long and weighs . The sexes' plumage is alike except for their head pattern. Adult males have a whitish to buff forehead and are red from their forecrown to hindneck. Adult females have the same white to buffy white forehead but a gray crown with red only on the hindcrown and hindneck. Their upperparts are black with thin white bars that sometimes have a greenish tinge. The bars are widest on the rump and uppertail coverts. Their flight feathers are black with narrow white bars throughout. Their tail is black with some white bars on the central pair of feathers and white spots on the outermost pair. Their lores are yellowish and their cheeks, chin, and throat are wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strawberry Hill (hotel)
Strawberry Hill is a Jamaican Hotel located in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica. It is owned by Chris Blackwell, a philanthropist and entertainment entrepreneur who founded Island Records, Palm Pictures and Island Outpost, a company that owns and operates his boutique hotels. Property History Strawberry Hill was named by its former owner Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, the son of Prime Minister Robert Walpole and cousin of Admiral Lord Nelson. The Royal Family granted Horace the Blue Mountain property in the Crown Colony of Jamaica, in 1780. The Earl discovered that the property's elevation was ideal for growing strawberries and named the property "Strawberry Hill". After becoming a Foreign Officers’ Naval Hospital in the late eighteenth century, successive owners included prominent families such as the Cargills and the DaCostas until passing to the Muffett family. Chris Blackwell then purchased the property from the Muffett family in 1972. Property Layout The property is c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |