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Saint Kitts and Nevis

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Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park on a hill on St. Kitts is home to one of the best-preserved 17th and 18th century fortifications in the Americas. The fortress, designed by the British and built by African slave labor, is an example of colonial expansion and African slave trade in the Caribbean. Brimstone Hill Fortress is virtually a man-made outgrowth of the natural hill. St. Kitts was the first Caribbean Island permanently settled by both the English and the French who shared the island between 1627 and 1713 and battled often for control of the fort until the 1783 Treaty of Paris restored St. Kitts and Nevis and Brimstone Hill to British rule. Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park became a UNESCO site in 1999.
The national bird of St. Kitts and Nevis is the brown pelican. Brown pelicans are the smallest species of pelican; males and females are 0.9 to 1.5 meters long (3 to 5 ft) and weigh over 3 kg (7 lbs). These pelicans are native to Virginia, Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas along the Gulf Coast, Central Californina, south to the mouth of the Amazon River in Brazil, south-central Chile, and the Galapagos Islands. Brown Pelicans feed on mid-size fish and are the only species of pelican that hunts with dramatic plunging dives, flying as high as 30 m (100 ft) before folding back their wings and plunging into the water. The skin pouch suspended from the lower half its bill holds two or three times more than the bird's stomach—about one gallon of water and fish. The bird will hold its catch and drain the water from its mouth before swallowing. Photo courtesy of the Smithsonian National Zoo.
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