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Birding Cuba, or Observación de aves en Cuba

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I just returned from a glorious birding trip all over Cuba, so I am just going to ignore the pile of spring bird books on my dining room table (most of which arrived while I was gone), and write a bit about my favorite Cuban birds. Of course, it’s the colorful and tiny birds that get the most attention when one thinks of Cuba.

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The Lost Macaw of Cuba

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There were potentially up to ten or more species of macaw in the West Indies, scattered on most of the major islands from Cuba in the west to Martinique in the east. Its last stronghold was the Zapata Swamp in western Cuba. In order to raise our awareness, to remind us of what we have lost, and to inspire us to fight for Every.

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Enjoy Innovative Electronic Music = Help Endangered Birds

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However, even if songs of the avian kind are more your musical thing, you will still find them in ten innovative, unique tracks that pay homage to endangered birds from Mexico, Nicaragua, Cuba, and seven other countries.

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Never Say Never Again

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The discovery raises hopes that more can be learned about this Critically Endangered rail, and that efforts to restore it can be launched. detente with Cuba perhaps a mixed blessing for the birds. Which makes the new U.S. Image above from Birdlife). News critically threatened species Cuban birding rails zapata rail'

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But…It’s a Canada Goose?

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Luis Gonzalez is a Miami resident and IT major who was originally born and raised in Cuba. His only birding regret was not starting sooner while he was still in Cuba and his final goal is to be able to bird at least once on every continent of the world, although he is mostly a Florida birder.

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The Whistle Blowers

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They are found in the Bahamas, Cuba, the Cayman Islands, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, the Turks and Caicos, Antigua, Barbuda and Jamaica. The whistling duck call carries with it the crimes of big business, the failures of governments and the ignorance of irresponsible hunters. They are also the rarest.

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Rev. Bachman’s Lost Warbler

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It’s not known for sure whether the entirety of the population of the species always wintered on the island of Cuba but by the time people cared enough to find out that’s where they were going. By about 1940, reports began to come saddled with the depressing qualification “last certain” From Cuba in 1940.