Priorities for Future Research

Although the Caribbean Martin is a common species, and is widespread in the West Indies, very little remains known about its natural history. There is very little information, for example, on the breeding biology of the Caribbean Martin; the limited data suggest geographic variation in clutch size, but even this information is based on remarkably few studies. More fundamentally, even the location of the nonbreeding distribution of the Caribbean Martin remains something of a mystery; presumably it winters along the north coast of South America, but its presence there only recently has been confirmed, and much remains to be learned about its distribution and seasonal occurrence there.