Rodny Alcolea Olivares

Guantanamo celebrates today the International Bird Day that emerged for an idea of the nongovernmental organization Bird Life International that encourages the nations of the world to recognize the importance of the living species.

The celebration has great relevance in the Easter and most mountainous region of Cuban provinces, territory that gives refugee each year for many bird species that migrate from one to another part of the planet.
 
Humboldt Park was declared Patrimony of the Humanity in the XXV meeting of the Committee of World Patrimony of the UNESCO and is also the greatest biodiversity reservation of the Caribbean. The specialists of the park keep the Biological record updated; this scientific material was finished in 2006 with data and reflections about the number of birds that inhabit or stay in this territory.
 
98 species are registered in the biological record, 12 of them are endemics of the region and eight are in the category of danger of extinction, but recent studies, still inedited, demonstrate there are 150 kinds of birds in the park.

Alejandro de Humbolt is located in the northeast part of the Cuban island, near Baracoa city, in Holguin and Guantanamo territory with 70 thousand hectares. The park has a very important role in the ecology of the tropical migratory birds that spend the winter in Cuba and the passing ones that go from island to island during the spring.

Scientific studies assure that, for its geographic position and extended area it is Cuba’s most important region to the migratory birds that spend the winter in the insular Caribbean, knowledge that is relevant to the total handling of the zone.