Small-group birdwatching and nature-photography expeditions guided by working scientists and local naturalists. You stay in family-run casas, walk with the community that protects each habitat, and the fee goes back into both.
Maximum 8 travellers per departure · 24 endemic species recorded on our 2025 routes
Cuban tody (cartacuba) perched on a bare twig, shot at dawn with long lens — soft green bokeh, bird sharp and small in frame
Recommended: 1200×1500px (4:5)
Todus multicolor — the cartacuba. Endemic, five inches, and the reason we started.
Every itinerary is built by a PhD ornithologist from field survey data, not from a tour catalogue. You get species accounts, vocalisation notes, and honest probabilities instead of promises.
Groups of eight or fewer, family-run casas particulares, and local guides paid as professionals. A fixed share of every booking goes to the community and habitat you visit.
We operate self-aligned with Ecotourism Australia’s certification criteria — documented in our public commitment, from group limits to trail conduct and wildlife distance.
Local guide in worn field clothes pointing into karst limestone forest, mogotes behind — documentary, overcast light, no posing
Recommended: 1200×1200px (1:1)
Sustainability commitment
A tour that costs a habitat more than it returns to it is not ecotourism. We publish what we pay, where it goes, and what we will not do.
We cap group size at eight, keep to established trails, and never use call playback on breeding or threatened species. Accommodation, food, and transport are booked with families and cooperatives in the region visited, and 5% of every booking funds habitat work chosen by those communities — last year, nest-box monitoring in Zapata and a reforestation plot in Viñales.
Our practices are self-assessed against Ecotourism Australia’s certification standards. We are not yet certified, and we say so.
Read the full commitmentMulti-day birdwatching across Cuban habitats — birders with scopes at the edge of Zapata wetland at first light, mist over sawgrass
Recommended: 1200×750px (16:10)
Sample content — a flagship 7-day journey from the Zapata wetlands to the Sierra del Rosario, targeting all of Cuba’s bird families found nowhere else on Earth.
Western Cuba birding and herpetology — pine forest trail in Pinar del Río, guide crouched over a small lizard on limestone
Recommended: 1200×750px (16:10)
Sample content — a week through Pinar del Río’s pine forests and the Guanahacabibes Peninsula, tracking endemic birds alongside Cuba’s remarkable reptiles and amphibians.
Karst forest photography safari in Escaleras de Jaruco — photographer with long lens on a limestone trail, golden-hour light
Recommended: 1200×750px (16:10)
A full-day photography masterclass through the karst forests of Escaleras de Jaruco — an easy drive from Havana — tracking Cuba’s endemic birds from dawn chorus to golden-hour light.
Birding walk through Ciénaga de Zapata wetlands — small group on a boardwalk through sawgrass with a local community guide
Recommended: 1200×750px (16:10)
Sample content — a half-day walk through Ciénaga de Zapata in search of Cuba’s rarest endemics, led by a local community guide.
Bee hummingbird at a flower, frozen wings, dark background
Recommended: 900×1200px (3:4)
Mogote karst ridge in morning haze, Viñales
Recommended: 900×1200px (3:4)
Casa particular breakfast table, coffee and fruit, host in background
Recommended: 900×1200px (3:4)
Field notebook with sketched bird and species list on a wooden table, binoculars beside
Recommended: 900×1200px (3:4)
All photographs made on our own departures. No stock, no baited perches, no captive birds.
Ecotourism Australia
Self-aligned with certification standards
BirdLife partner network
Survey data shared annually
Max. 8 travellers
Every departure, no exceptions
5% to habitat work
Community-chosen projects