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Endemic Birds of Cuba: A Book Review

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Cuba is on my mind. birders have been able to visit Cuba as part of survey groups and cultural exchanges for years, but those trips have been few in number and not always easy to find. and Cuba.). The full name of this unique volume is Endemic Birds of Cuba: A Comprehensive Guide Including West Indian Endemics Living in Cuba.

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The Swallow-tailed Kites in Florida Are Now Heading South…

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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. Kites generally fly to Cuba and then over the ocean to arrive in the Yucatan Peninsula or areas further south. Photo Credits: Tim Kelly. Project NG94-025.

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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. But one man was listening to the calls of the whistle blowers -- calls of widespread wetland destruction, poaching, pesticides and destructive feral wildlife. They are also the rarest.

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The Endangered Florida Bonneted Bat

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The Florida Bonneted was initially regarded as a subspecies of the widespread Bonneted Bat ( Eumops glaucinus glaucinus ), which ranges in Cuba, Jamaica, and Peninsular Florida. Photo: Kathleen Smith, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. The Florida Bonneted Bat is the largest of Florida’s bats weighing 1.2

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Cool Green Heron

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Photographed in Cuba , the bird appears to be a melanistic Green Heron though it might perhaps be a dark form or even stained by algae. Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity. The jury is still out but what a cool bird! Hat-tip to Shawn. The proposal from U.S.

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Potpourri of Amazing Bird Science

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” The birds appear to be starving to death, so experts don’t believe a toxin is the culprit, said Julia Burco, a wildlife veterinarian for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. One of the birds most affected by this is Cassin’s Auklets. Amazing, if confirmed. But not at all unexpected, really. __.

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My Top Ten Birds of 2016

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The Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival in Florida was a nice break from winter though the blizzard back home forced me to drive back to New York adding birds seen on the road and at rest stops along the way. Cuban Vireo is a bird I would never have expected to see unless I went to Cuba and I went and got one on the cheap!

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