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| | Birderblog.com - Cuban Tody--the most adorable bird in the universe? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | The good news is that, as you may know, Puerto Rico has its own endemic species of Tody - the Puerto Rican Tody (Todus mexicanus), which, notwithstanding its Latin name, is endemic to Puerto Rico. |
 | | Puerto Rico has a number of other endemics, including the Puerto Rican Parrot, the elusive Elfin Woods Warbler, and my favorite, the Puerto Rican Woodpecker, which I had the privilege of seeing just a few weeks ago during a short vacation to the island. |
 | | These birds are wild, not domestic, and unlike the species of parrots and parakeets that have been raised in captivity for a long time, todies don't have the kind of adaptable intelligence and social structures that would make them happy in cages. |
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