Cuba’s Western Mountains include two of the country’s most diverse and dramatic ranges: the Sierra de la Rosario and the Sierra de los Organos. We will explore an area common to both ranges in search of western range endemic species such as the Cuban Solitaire. As a highlight of the trip, we will visit the magical, unusually beautiful karstic landscape of mogotes—the towering, lushly vegetated, flat-top limestone monoliths that dominate the Organos Mountains.

This is the only region in which we will likely see the Cuban Solitaire, Cuban Grassquit, and Olive-capped Warbler. Other potential endemic species for western Cuba include the Cuban Oriole, Cuban Blackbird, Cuban Green Woodpecker, Cuban Pewee, Cuban Pygmy-Owl, Cuban Tody, Cuban Trogon, Cuban Vireo, Gundlach’s Hawk, and Yellow-headed Warbler.