Comments on: 2013 Cahow Season Is Off To A Flying Start

By: Neil Santy

Neil Santy — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 00:21:09 +0000

Thanks

By: Helper smith

Helper smith — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 11:43:41 +0000

You can catch the bus and walk to Coopers Island.

By: Neil Santy

Neil Santy — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 22:35:09 +0000

Is Coopers Island NR open to the public at dusk (I understand the site is under restoration) and is it accessible by public transport? My wife and I are visiting the country next week from the UK. I am a birder (but my wife isn’t!) and would be great to get an opportunity to see something of this enigmatic bird. What time is dusk next week?
Many thanks

By: knowthyself

knowthyself — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 06:41:36 +0000

Good work on the part of the conservation team. I’m elated to see the revival and ever improving habitat of these birds.

By: Jeremy Madeiros

Jeremy Madeiros — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 22:35:05 +0000

Good day Mike; no, the Cahow only nests on Nonsuch and 4 tiny half-acre islets and rocks in the Castle Harbour Islands. One of the limiting factors is that they can not survive in the presence of rats and other mammal predators, and i keep rats off the Castle Islands by a vigorous baiting program. Virtually every other island or rock in bermuda is accessible to rats, which are good swimmers and go from island to island this way. They also only come in from the open Ocean to the nesting islands in Castle Harbour at night,so the birds that many people are seeing soaring in the high winds around the coast during the day are all verious species of Gulls, that have been blown here from the East coast of North America (even sometimes from Europe). The only place to see Cahows from land is from the outer tip of the Coopers Island Nature Reserve about an hour or so before sunset, when they gather outside the reef line waiting for night to fall to go in to their nesting islands. The best times to do this is all through November, and from mid January through late March. The windier it is, the more likely you are to see them, as they love wind, but they will often not come in at all if conditions are very calm.

By: Kettle

Kettle — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 16:02:03 +0000

I know, right?! So cute, so soft and fuzzy. Great to hear that they are doing well! What a nice news story!

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 16:24:51 +0000

If Jeremy Madeiros is reading this… could you tell us if there are on other part of the island aside from Non-Such?

By: Theresa Simpson

Theresa Simpson — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 15:14:39 +0000

Saw a Cahow this morning flying in Baileys Bay…..Looking great…..

By: micheyd

micheyd — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 15:00:31 +0000

That is just about the cutest bird I’ve ever seen.