Tag: Birds

Video: Eight Week “Cahow Cam” Update

A new video showing the eight-week health check on “Backson” the Cahow chick has been uploaded by LookBermuda. The “Cahow Cam Project” – officially launched on Earth Day [Apr. 22] — has attracted hundreds of viewers to its regular video posts on Bermuda’s critically endangered national bird. A joint initiative between... Read more of this article

New York Explorers Club Cahow Film Screening

New York’s famed Explorers Club is hosting a screening on Tuesday [May 7] of author/filmmaker Deidre Brennan’s “Bermuda’s Treasure Island”, describing the documentary about the quest to save the critically endangered Cahow as “one of the great conservation success stories of our time.” Ms Brennan — who... Read more of this article

Report On Extinct Bermuda Woodpeckers

The story of a long-extinct Bermuda woodpecker which may have survived until the colonial era is highlighted in the current issue of a major US scientific journal. The March, 2013 edition of “Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington” includes an account of the Bermuda Flicker — or Colaptes oceanicus — by the Smithsonian... Read more of this article

Video: Cahow Cam Project Soars In First Week

The “Cahow Cam Project” has soared since being officially launched on Earth Day [Apr. 22], attracting hundreds of viewers to its video posts on Bermuda’s critically endangered national bird. A joint initiative between Ascendant Group Limited, the Ministry of Environment & Planning, LookBermuda/LookFilms and North Rock Communications... Read more of this article

Nonsuch Island ‘Cahow Cam’ Live Streaming

[Updated with video] After several years of research and planning, the “Cahow Cam Project” is ready to take flight. Today at an Earth Day news conference, Ascendant Group Limited, the Ministry of Environment & Planning, LookBermuda/LookFilms and North Rock Communications Ltd., announced that the long-planned project is online and available for... Read more of this article

Red-Tailed Hawk Photographed With Prey

The Bermuda Audubon Society posted this photograph taken yesterday [Apr. 20] at Ely’s Harbour by Heather Conyers at its Facebook page, the first to show a Red-tailed Hawk with prey [probably a feral pigeon]. “Two Red-tailed Hawks have been in Bermuda for over 10 years,” said Audubon Society president Andrew Dobson. “They have... Read more of this article

First Ever Live Puffin Seen In Bermuda Waters

The Bermuda Audubon Society today [Apr. 16] confirmed the first ever live sighting of an Atlantic Puffin in Bermuda waters — and posted the photographic proof at its Facebook page. “Bermuda’s first live Atlantic Puffin was seen and photographed by Matthew Watson while fishing with his brother Andrew on Challenger Banks last Wednesday,”... Read more of this article

Rare Chipping Sparrow Sighting In Bermuda

This Chipping Sparrow — a rare visitor to Bermuda — was spotted this morning [Apr. 14] while the Bermuda Audubon Society checked bluebird nest boxes at Government House. Described as a “crisp, pretty sparrow whose bright rufous cap both provides a splash of color and makes adults fairly easy to identify”, Chipping Sparrows are... Read more of this article

Audubon Society Responds To Magazine Writer

The Bermuda Audubon Society has responded to a “Scientific American” writer who said genetic research which suggests the island’s threatened bluebird population is only 400 years old means “they shouldn’t be major priorities” for conservationists. Research conducted at Rutgers University and published in the scientific... Read more of this article

Video: Baltimore Oriole In Bermuda Garden

Elizabeth Lusher woke up last Wednesday [Apr. 3] to discover she had a new — and melodic — neighbour. A Baltimore Oriole, a relatively rare North American visitor to Bermuda, had taken up residence in her Pembroke garden.’ “Heard an unusual bird singing outside my window and captured this video of a lone male Baltimore Oriole... Read more of this article