Lucky Sightings while bird watching - St. John

During our time in St. John we attended 3 ranger-guided interpretive programs through the Virgin Islands National Park.
On one, a bird watching walk around Francis Bay pond we had two excellent, up-close sightings of a "mangrove cuckoo". The ranger told us people come from all over the world in hopes of sighting this rare bird.
An "antillean crested hummingbird" otherwise locally known as the "green flash" followed us along the trail almost begging to have his picture taken, his neon green patch flashing away.
We viewed alot of interesting bird legs walking through the shallow salt pond water -long pink ones on the "black-necked stiff" and shorter yellow ones on the "lesser yellowlegs".
We loved the "yellow warblers" bright colour and pretty song.
We saw birds that have come to be common sights for us, but are surely no less beautiful such as "brown boobies", "brown pelicans", "thrushes", "magnificent frigatebirds", "royal terns", "spotted sand-pipers" and the official bird of the Virgin Islands the "bananaquit".
The next day, while hiking the reef bay trail, we sighted yet another rare bird - the "smooth billed ani" (a black, parrot like bird).
We could turn into avid birders after so much excitement.
There are 144 species of birds found on St. John; 30 of these breed here while the others fly south to winter on the island.