Spring Migration Cuba Bird Survey – April 2016. Itinerary included Cuba’s Western Mountains, Zapata Peninsula, Northern Archipelago, Escambray Valley and Havana.
For the second time, BirdWatching magazine, in collaboration with the Caribbean Conservation Trust, is promoting an exclusive, birding program to Cuba, the Caribbean’s largest and most ecologically diverse island nation.
With the recent relaxation of restrictions on travel to Cuba, many U.S. birders are considering a visit to that bird-rich nation so close to Florida. What to bring? – binoculars, for starters, and probably a field guide. But what sort of field guide? –...
The main purpose of our trip to Cuba was to find and identify the endemic birds on the island of Cuba and outlying Cays. Endemic is defined as ” native or restricted to a certain country or area”. Our group saw 24 of the 26 possibilities. We did not see the Cuban...
WFHB: Birding in Cuba by Gary Markowski 20160317-EcoFEATURE-Cuban-bird-watchers In this Ecoreport feature, we hear from Gary Markowski from the Caribbean Conservation Trust, a small US company that has been bringing bird watchers to...