The birds of Cuba.

Sun, beach, culture, traditions and history combine with the offer more and more demanded of the surroundings, favored by the existence of numerous natural, ecological, biosphere stock, protected areas and national parks.

From end to end, in Cuba we will find zones of exuberant scenic beauty and grand moral values ecoturísticos. As of the present moment, in addition to Reservas of Biospheres, Paisajes Naturales, Parques Nacionales, Reservas Ecológicas, Patrimonios Mundiales, etc 300 protected areas that occupy the 22 percent of the national territory exist over. Some of these places are considered among destinations preferred for the tourism of nature.

At all the archipelago 6 are registered until now 300 species of flora, over half as much endemic, and 13 thousand of fauna, with an endemismo such than in certain cases he takes amazement: 40 % in mammals, 90 % in amphibious and 96 % in terrestrial snails, what he does to the specialists to regard a malacología's paradise this land as.

The more demanding one belonging to fans, experts's more connoisseur the Cuban if is going to occupy his time in observation of birds will like the field. He will find stable temperatures, comfort to travel here, you drive efficient and respectful, human kindness and all manner of facilities. With multiple places enabled for birds's observation, a varied fauna, little r in species, polychromatic flora where the unsafe animals do not live for the man. The Cuba receives also an ample migratory diversity of species that the visitor will be able to observe here.

In his half native, free and beautiful, birds the Cubans can be a gift for his patience of observer and a rejoicing for his eyes.

If we rely on the Catalog of the Birds of Cuba, at our country there are 350 species, 285 of them find regularly at their territory, 143 bring up in him, 114 reside here in winter, while 50 are transient, that means that he does not have an abundant avifauna.

Of our skies the birds of extraordinary beauty like the Macaw have disappeared forever ( Plow cubensis ), than still en1850 Christian era at Zapata's Marsh, and more recently, although still some misgivings persist, he gave himself officially extinguished his Woodpecker Real ( Campephilus principal ), that Sagua Baracoa in second half did his last flights on the highland's forests of the decade of the 80. Specially to be an island, the Cuba has not escaped of the worldwide surge of extinctions that the entire world since the man decided utilizing another sorts for his benefit, Vicente Berovides, of the Faculty makes a professor's article firm of Biología of the University of Havana, published in the magazine goes over Flora and Fauna.

However there is some birds Cubans of such originality that the geography of the Island like the zunzuncito,, the smaller worldly hummingbird leak out, and little-known others but no less interesting like the fascinating Tocororo, national bird. ( Priotelus temnurus ) the family's Tocororo Trogonidae, once the quetzal of Guatemala was married into, but exclusive of Cuba, the Cuban like Tocoloro is also known the population, and at Oriental regions of the country he is named with his aboriginal name Guatani to him.

In the Carib only they enjoy two Trogones's species, the one belonging to Cuba and the one belonging to the island Haiti Dominicana. Of medium size, he lives on insects than on-the-fly hunting, nestle among the months of April and June at the holes that the woodpeckers at trees or another cavities turn on and so much the male as the female take care of of eggs to his hatching. The specialists yield the difficulty to bring him up in captivity among other things due to the easy fall of his plumage, thus I eat his characteristic from taking in foodstuff while he flies.

Because he can not live shut in and a beautiful bird is whose colors they agree with the ones belonging to the ensign of one's country, a symbol is for Cubans. Close-knit besides they turn popular legends to the national culture, about this animal and religious myths. While Afro-Cuban religion uses his head in rites, for some believers God's animal to have an inverted cross is the tail, this I could check it at a mountainous zone where it is abundant.