Cuba, lizards and world’s smallest hummingbird

This video is called Cuba Playa Larga 2016.

On 13 March 2017 we went from Cayo Coco, where we had been on 12 March, to Playa Larga on the south coast of Cuba.

On Cayo Coco: white ibis (after which the island is named). Black-necked stilts. Short-billed dowitchers. Tricoloured heron. Snowy egret. Flamingos flying.

White pelicans.

At a restaurant in central Cuba: Cape May warbler.

There were anolis lizards on the inside of the thatched roof of the restaurant.

Cuban emerald hummingbirds were present as well. So were Cuban grassquits: they live only in Cuba and in the Bahamas.

At 17:30, we stopped at a place not far from the Zapata peninsula.

The smallest bird in the world, the bee hummingbird, lives there. The photo shows a male.

The bee hummingbird drank from white flowers. On the branch above it sat a Cuban pewee.

There were also bigger relatives of the bee hummingbird: Cuban emerald hummingbirds, both males and females.

Still bigger: a Cuban oriole.

Stay tuned for more entries about Cuba on this blog!

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