The
Bahamian pineyards are a
tropical and subtropical coniferous forest ecoregion in
The Bahamas and the
Turks and Caicos Islands, where they occur on an area of . Pineyards are found on four of the northern islands in The Bahamas:
Andros,
Abaco,
Grand Bahama, where they cover half of the island, and
New Providence, as well as the Caicos Islands. Pineyards are dominated by Bahamian pine (
Pinus caribaea var. bahamensis), while pinepink (
Bletia purpurea), bushy beard grass (
Andropogon glomeratus), southern bracken fern (
Pteridium aquilinum), Florida clover ash (
Tetrazygia bicolor), Bahamian trumpet tree (
Tabebuia bahamensis), West Indian snowberry (
Chiococca alba), devil's gut (
Cassytha filiformis), poisonwood (
Metopium toxiferum), coontie (
Zamia integrifolia) and Florida silver palm (
Coccothrinax argentata) grow in the
understory. Without regular
wildfires, pineyards will be supplanted by broadleafed
coppice. Young Bahamian pines require extensive amounts of sunlight to grow, and are resistant to fire once they become adults. Fauna found in the pine forests includes rock iguanas (
Cyclura spp.), pygmy boas (
Epicrates spp.), the
West Indian woodpecker (
Melanerpes superciliaris), the
Bahama woodstar (
Calliphlox evelynae), the
Bahama yellowthroat, (
Geothlypis rostrata), and the
buffy flower bat (
Erophylla sezekorni).
Kirtland's warblers (
Dendroica kirtlandii)
migrate from
jack pine forests in the
Lower Peninsula of Michigan to Bahamian pineyards every year, where they spend the winter.