Birding Cuba, April 2016 by David Bredehoft from Ben Wilson on Vimeo. Birding Cuba, April 2016 by David Bredehoft. Spring Migration Cuba Bird Survey: Cuba’s Western Mountains, Zapata Peninsula, Northern Archipelago, Escambray Valley and Havana in April 2016 Trip...
The thick-billed vireo is a small songbird. It breeds in the West Indies in the Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Islands, Cayman Islands, Tortuga Island in Haiti and on cays off the coast of Cuba. We found this bird on Cayo Paredón Grande....
Cuban Endemics 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....
After lunch our first day, we were treated to an audience with Orlando H. Garrido, author of Field Guide to the Birds of Cuba. Orlando described and showed us the 26 Cuban endemics that we were hoping to see during our stay. Besides being a world class Cuban...
On April 1st of 2016, I joined a group of 14 birders from Minnesota for a first trip to Cuba. We contracted with the Caribbean Conservation Trust travel agency to handle logistics. our group gathered in Miami the day before due to the early flight. In the...
