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White-winged Dove Range - Southern United States to Chile; Bahamas and Greater Antilles This bird was photographed at a stop off point along the South Coast
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Yellow-faced Grassquit Range - Mexico to northern South America; Greater Antilles and Cayman Islands. Common almost everywhere we went. This |
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Northern Jacana Range - SW United States to Panama; Cuba, Hispaniola, and Jamaica Najasa - This was one of a pair and the only two |
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Northern Flicker Range - Most of N America, Central America, Cuba and Grand Cayman. Photo by Dave Ferguson |
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Northern Flickers were most common in the Sierra Maestra mountains. |
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Range - Breeds northern North America, wintering south to Central America, West Indies Villa Pinares DeMayari - This bird was brought to our |
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Magnificent Frigatebird Range - Tropical America, both Atlantic and Pacific oceans. A very distant shot of this huge bird as it flew along the north coast.
Also a few seen at Cabo Cruz. |
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Least Grebe Range - Mexico and Texas to N Argentina, Bahamas, Greater Antilles |
Least Grebe Feeding on the same river as the Hooded merganser, to This bird proven to be very mobile and difficult to photograph. Note the distinctive eye colour. This has not been enhanced. |
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Smooth-billed Ani Florida, Costa Rica to N Argentina; West Indies Near Najasa - Common in areas of open farmland. |
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This Smooth-billed Ani was feeding very close to some pigs which were digging up the soil. Photo by Dave Ferguson |
Red-legged Honeycreeper Range - Mexico to Southern Brazil Villa Pinares DeMayari - This fairly dull female is |
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American Kestrel (red phase) Range - North, Central and South America; West Indies. A common species in Cuba. |
American Kestrel (red phase) Photographed at Villa Pinares De Mayari |
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American Kestrel (white phase) This individual was at Najasa |
American Kestrel (white phase) |
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American Kestrel (white phase) |
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Snail Kite Range - Southern Florida; Mexico to Argentina
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Snail Kite Seen just north of the Puerto Padre to Playa Uvero road hunting over a small reservoir. Photo by Dave Ferguson |
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Turkey Vulture Range - Southern Canada to Southern Argentina; Greater Antilles, Puerto Rico Perhaps the most widespread bird on Cuba. Seen daily in all habitats, sometimes in numbers of over 10. |
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| Turkey Vulture Normally fairly timid but this bird in the national park at Cabo Cruz allowed us to approach. |
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Northern Mockingbird One of the most common and widespread of the birds we saw on Cuba. |