Annotated Checklist of the Birds of Cuba
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ANNOTATED CHECKLIST OF THE BIRDS OF CUBA Number 3 2020 Nils Navarro Pacheco www.EdicionesNuevosMundos.com 1 Senior Editor: Nils Navarro Pacheco Editors: Soledad Pagliuca, Kathleen Hennessey and Sharyn Thompson Cover Design: Scott Schiller Cover: Bee Hummingbird/Zunzuncito (Mellisuga helenae), Zapata Swamp, Matanzas, Cuba. Photo courtesy Aslam I. Castellón Maure Back cover Illustrations: Nils Navarro, © Endemic Birds of Cuba. A Comprehensive Field Guide, 2015 Published by Ediciones Nuevos Mundos www.EdicionesNuevosMundos.com [email protected] Annotated Checklist of the Birds of Cuba ©Nils Navarro Pacheco, 2020 ©Ediciones Nuevos Mundos, 2020 ISBN: 978-09909419-6-5 Recommended citation Navarro, N. 2020. Annotated Checklist of the Birds of Cuba. Ediciones Nuevos Mundos 3. 2 To the memory of Jim Wiley, a great friend, extraordinary person and scientist, a guiding light of Caribbean ornithology. He crossed many troubled waters in pursuit of expanding our knowledge of Cuban birds. 3 About the Author Nils Navarro Pacheco was born in Holguín, Cuba. by his own illustrations, creates a personalized He is a freelance naturalist, author and an field guide style that is both practical and useful, internationally acclaimed wildlife artist and with icons as substitutes for texts. It also includes scientific illustrator. A graduate of the Academy of other important features based on his personal Fine Arts with a major in painting, he served as experience and understanding of the needs of field curator of the herpetological collection of the guide users. Nils continues to contribute his Holguín Museum of Natural History, where he artwork and copyrights to BirdsCaribbean, other described several new species of lizards and frogs NGOs, and national and international institutions in for Cuba. an effort to help raise funds in support of bird conservation in the Caribbean region. Nils is Nils has been travelling throughout the Caribbean currently an eBird reviewer for Cuba, and author Islands and Middle America working on different of the Annotated Checklist of the Birds of Cuba, an projects related to the conservation of biodiversity, annual publication that has become the official list with a particular focus on reptiles, amphibians and of the birds of Cuba. Currently he is working on a birds. He is the author of the book Endemic Birds of new Comprehensive Field Guide to the Birds of Cuba. Cuba, A Comprehensive Field Guide, which, enriched 4 The Annotated Checklist of the Birds of Cuba is an contributing to an increase in the number of annual publication that grew from the need to previously unregistered species entering the list provide updated information about changes that every year. Furthermore, the influence of climate have affected birds registered in the Cuban change is producing altered patterns of migratory archipelago. Development of new techniques in movements in many species. molecular studies, new interpretations of Our main objective is to provide up-to-date annual speciation and evolutionary phenomena have also listings of Cuban birds, including reference emerged, considerably modifying the traditional information on each new report and general way of viewing ornithology and resulting in rapid statistics about Cuban birdlife, and to serve as a changes in taxonomy and systematics, often reference platform for ornithological studies in the beyond what we can assimilate through the normal country. It is our obligation to make this flow of information. publication accessible to the community of local In addition, the growing demand for bird-watching ornithologists and to the institutions involved in tourism on the island and the implementation of the conservation and study of Cuban birds. monitoring programs of migratory species are Nils Navarro Senior Editor 5 Contents Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 9 Before using the checklist ............................................................................................................................................................................. 10 Listed species ................................................................................................................................................................................................. 10 Taxonomic sequence .................................................................................................................................................................................. 10 Species in conflict ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 11 English name .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 11 Local name ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 11 Scientific name .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 11 Subspecies ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 11 Subspecies groups ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 11 Alpha codes ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 12 Threat status .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 12 Endemic region ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 12 Abundance status ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 13 Breeding status ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 13 Resident status .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 13 Introduced ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 13 Distribution .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 14 Unusual events .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 14 New records and other additions ......................................................................................................................................................... 14 Taxa removed from the lists ................................................................................................................................................................... 15 About the section “Comments” .............................................................................................................................................................. 15 About eBird .......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 16 Annotated Checklist of the Birds of Cuba ............................................................................................................................................... 17 Order: ANSERIFORMES Family: Anatidae ...................................................................................................................................... 17 Order: GALLIFORMES Family: Numididae ..................................................................................................................................... 18 Order: GALLIFORMES Family: Odontophoridae .......................................................................................................................... 18 Order: GALLIFORMES Family: Phasianidae ................................................................................................................................... 18 Order: PHOENICOPTERIFORMES Family: Phoenicopteridae ................................................................................................