Playa Pesquero, Holguin, Cuba 16th-30th
August 2006 
- This year we
decided to spend our family summer holiday at the hotel Playa
Pesquero in the Holguin province of Cuba. While the holiday
was primarily a beach/snorkelling/relaxation holiday, I was
able to take some pre breakfast and evening walks to a number
of birding sites within 20 minutes of the resort....John
Yates reports
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Cuba June
2006
- Go in March (or April), this is
the single best time! You will see migrating American warblers,
have a better chance at Gundlach’s Hawk and the quail-doves...Eduard
Sangster reports
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Cuba
tour report 22nd December
2004 to 5th January 2005
- The Flamingos in particular were stunning
with colours ranging from white, through various pinks to
vermilion. Still regarded as a race of Greater Flamingo
by the American Ornithologists' Union, these birds are now
treated by some authorities as a separate species......Peter
Dedicoat reports for "Avian
Adventures"
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Cuba
2nd - 16th March 2002 166
Bird Species recorded
- In the verge side scrub we found several
Cape May Warblers, Western Stripe-headed Tanagers and stunning
views of a Cuban Tody. In the car park we soon found our
first Oriente Warblers followed by a nice male Cape May
several Palm Warblers, Grey Catbird, Red-legged Thrushes
and then a Yellow-throated Vireo...We then had fantastic
close views of two Zapata Sparrows which are a threatened
and localised endemic. After enjoying these star birds we
slowly moved on to see what else we could find. Cuban Vireos
were very evident and several Ovenbirds were seen creeping
through the leaf litter...Steve Bird reports for
Birdseekers
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Cuba 1st-12th
April 2006
- After an extensive search, we finally
heard a Gray-headed Quail-Dove, and it didn’t take long to track down the calling perched individual.
Again, excellent views. Chino then took us to a nest site of Gundlach’s
Hawk....Wim Heylen and Cindy Van den Broeck report.
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- Coming soon in the BBC Natural world
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to the mating display of the Bee Hummingbird. Lots of endemic
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Cuba March
2005
- Our aim was to see as many of Cuba's endemic
bird species and subspecies as possible, as well as the general
West Indian specialities. Considering our timing in March, many
of the North American wintering migrants should be present in
good numbers too...Tony Murray reports.
Cuba March
15th-22nd, 2001
- This day would provide me with my highest
ever total of lifers in one day, and Chino knows exactly where
to find all the specialities. We saw four new birds in Estrella's
garden before setting off: Cuban Emerald, Black-cowled Oriole,
Tawny-shouldered Blackbird and Cuban Blackbird....Alex Kirschel
reports
Birding Trip Report from Cuba
late November/early December 2000
- Our guide was of top quality, and within
minutes, we had excellent views of Cuban Trogon, one of the species
that was on my wish list for the trip. We also saw Yellow Headed
warbler, Cuban Bullfinch, GL Cuckoo, Black and White warbler,
West Indian woodpecker, Northern flicker, Grey Catbird, Cuban
Grassquit, Mourning dove, Cuban Blackbirdand Cuban Peewee and
two of the birds of the trip Black Cowled Orioleand Cuban Tody.....Derek
Gruar reports
The Birds of Cuba (April
10-18th 1998)
- "Isn't that an owl sitting up there, at
the top of that tree?" We were birding in the cool mountain country
of western Cuba, in pine forest in La Guira National Park. We
had just searched successfully for Cuban Solitaire and were turning
our attention to Olive-capped Warblers flitting high in the canopy,
when Jack called out to us about an owl he'd spotted.....Richard
Knapton reports
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