Caribbean Birding Trail
The Caribbean Birding Trail is a network of the best sites on each island for birdwatching, enjoying nature, and experiencing culture. Discover an island’ bird life, and you will discover Caribbean heritage. The Caribbean Birding Trail (CBT) will introduce you not only to the birds of the Caribbean, but also to the extraordinary places, diverse cultures, and people of each island. Whether it’s trying oildown in Grenada or jerk chicken in Jamaica, visiting a coffee or spice farm, or taking in a stunning landscape, the CBT will show you the real Caribbean.
The CBT is being developed by BirdsCaribbean to raise awareness of the unique birds and biodiversity of the Caribbean and to inspire a willingness to preserve them. Through the CBT—our featured birding sites, local guides, and tours— get to know the 185 bird species that are found nowhere else in the world. In contrast to mass tourism, such as cruises and resorts, the CBT is low volume and low environmental impact. Tourism of this sort strives to capture the economic impacts locally, and to empower local communities and small businesses to harness the tourism economy for their own direct benefit.
The goal of the CBT is to work with conservation organizations, protected area managers, government agencies, tourism boards, tour operators, and guides throughout the region to develop sustainable tourism opportunities around birdwatching and nature. We are building sustainable tourism capacity in the Caribbean through improving infrastructure (e.g, trails and boardwalks) and training guides through the CBT Interpretive Guide Training Program. At the same time, we are working to build the demand for bird and nature tourism through marketing and promotion, using our CBT website to reach a global audience about what the islands have to offer.
We invite you to go on the Caribbean Birding Trail and explore what is beyond the beach!
Looking for a bird and nature guide in one or more Caribbean countries? Check out our Tour Guides and Operators page featuring qualified guides, some of whom have completed our CBT Guide Training!
Looking for the best spots to go birding in the Caribbean or a great eco-lodge? Visit our Countries and Site page!
Get involved and help us grow and support the CBT Project and conservation of birds and nature through:
- Telling us about birding, cultural and historical sites and eco-friendly accommodations and lodges that should be listed on our website. This is an exciting chance to promote and encourage sustainable tourism opportunities in your country and community!
- Offering bird tours or participate in our guide trainings. Gain a competitive advantage by offering bird and nature tours for the growing segment of bird watchers traveling internationally. Contact us to learn more about our guide training program and developing bird tourism products.
- Helping advertise. Help spread the word about CBT opportunities by linking to our website from yours and/ or offer information to guests via brochures or other materials.
- Travel to the Caribbean with us! We offer two Bird Tours to CUBA every year and we partner with conservation-minded companies that offer Caribbean island tours that give back to support our Caribbean bird and nature conservation projects.
- Sponsoring the Caribbean Birding Trail. Support the CBT and help fund guide trainings, the production of interpretive and promotional materials, and infrastructure needs like trails and boardwalks. The CBT also needs to be supported at multiple levels, particularly at the government level. If you work with a government entity or a tourism board and would like to learn more about the project, please contact us.
Contact us at info@CaribbeanBirdingTrail.org for information on how to get involved.
Download our Caribbean Birding Trail Flier and share with your contacts.
Watch our Caribbean Birding Trail video!