Welcome back to the Sunday Edition. I wanted to share my birding “Big Day” from my Cuba trip in March. It will be the last birding post (this year) about neo-tropical birds, I swear. A “Big Day” count is a birding term for a single-team effort in which the primary objectives are to identify as many bird species as possible …
Happy Easter to all of you celebrating today. I wanted to share this beautiful little bird with you this week because these birds are as colourful as Easter eggs! The most famous bird in Cuba doesn’t exactly have the most spectacular name; the Cuban Tody doesn’t exactly drum up the rainbow of colours that are this tiny bird. The Cuban …
I was fortunate to see a number of beautiful warblers during my trip. Cuba has a number of endemic species which means they have birds that you can only see in Cuba. I love the vivid colours of warblers and their varied songs and behaviours. They are most definitely one of my favourite birds. We don’t get a lot of …
I planned a birding adventure as part of my vacation. There were a couple of birds that I really wanted to see while I was away, one of which you can only find in Cuba. The tour wasn’t until the last day of my vacation so I had a long wait to find out exactly which birds I’d seen by …