5 Dollars Flamingo

Flamingos were once native to Barbados — early colonial accounts document flocks on the island — but were hunted to local extinction well before the twentieth century. The species now associated with the island survives in the wild primarily in the Yucatán and the Bahamas. Barbados has leaned into the bird as an emblem regardless, and the 2020 issue joins a crowded field of silver wildlife rounds from the Royal Canadian Mint's custom minting programs, which produce the bulk of Caribbean sovereign novelty issues in this weight class.