10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 12, 2014
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. … Birds Cuba Extinction Week parrots' The islands of the Caribbean are no exception.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 1, 2013
Similar observation have been made in Cuba and the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico where up to 47,000 migrating Mississippi Kites are counted every season as they fly south. Of all migratory birds breeding in North America, Swallow-tailed Kites are among the first to leave for the wintering grounds.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 21, 2013
Their taxonomic status long has been unclear due to their overall similarity and the fact that in eastern North America and Cuba, they hybridize. King Rails occur widely in eastern North America, in eastern and central Mexico, and in Cuba. These are brightly colored birds that breed in freshwater environments.
10,000 Birds
MAY 24, 2020
Breeding only above treeline on windswept and desolate rock faces (or equally austere habitats on the Aleutians), the three American rosy-finches (Gray-crowned, Black, and Brown-capped) are extreme environment specialists that are endemic to North America. In the summer, they are the highest altitude breeding songbird in North America.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 5, 2014
Populations in the eastern part of its range, including the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and the Lesser Antilles are resident while those in the western part of its range such as Florida, Cuba, Jamaica, and the Bahamas are migratory. By the end of September, the territorial birds that breed in the local parking lots are gone.
10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2011
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.
10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2012
Black-and-white Warbler by Carlos Sanchez With the northern Bahamas just to the east and Cuba just to the south, southeast Florida biogeographically sits on the northern edge of the Caribbean and so the wintering wood-warbler species are mostly those typically found further south in the islands.
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