Birding Tour Cuba: Endemics and Culture in Paradise

The smallest bird on the planet, Bee Hummingbird, a myriad Cuban Todies and Cuban Trogons in every patch of scrub, and a host of other endemics and regional specials – all on an idyllic island paradise that is full of history and culture! Combining this 12-day Cuba birding tour with our Jamaica birdwatching tour provides opportunities to see almost 60 single-island endemics spread across two islands: Cuba, the largest of the Greater Antilles, and Jamaica, the smallest of the main islands in the group. Then you can also combine these birding tours with our Dominican Republic birding tour to see an endemic family (Palmchat) and a further suite of endemics of another large (second only to Cuba in size) Caribbean Island, Hispaniola. In addition, on this Cuba birding holiday, we will have chances to find a number of multi-island endemics and regional specials, some of which may, in the future, be upgraded in their taxonomic status.

Bee Hummingbird; the world’s smallest bird species (photo Daniel Orozco)!

On this Cuban birding tour we aim to find all of Cuba’s realistic avian endemics, a host of wider Caribbean endemics, and finally a bunch of North American migrants (like a stack of brightly colored wood warblers), while also having time to snorkel during the heat of the day, see the amazing architecture, not only of Cuba’s capital, but also of Camagüey and other towns, and of course to enjoy the old American cars and the general atmosphere of this tropical paradise. It’s quite an easy tour, in which we find the birds we need without too much trouble (except for a couple of them, such as the quail-doves, which can require persistence).

Cuban Tody is one of our main targets on this tour (photo William Price).