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Birdwatchers have spotted an unfamiliar sight in the skies around Bermuda. Karen Border, the president of the Bermuda Audubon Society, confirmed that a brown pelican was visiting the island. She added: “It has been seen by a few Audubon members, ma...

For Val Sherwood, the biggest challenge to writing a book about cats, was the cats themselves. When she first started, her eight cats miaowed, circled and jumped on the keyboard whenever she sat down to write. “I kept telling them they are all going ...

Bermuda’s cahow nesting season got off to an early start this year as breeding pairs returned to their burrows quicker than usual. Jeremy Madeiros, the Government’s principal land conservation officer, said: “Many of the birds are returning a week ah...

Last month ophthalmic surgeon, Dr. Leonard Teye-Botchway, operated on the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo’s Parma Wallaby, Mandu, removing his luxated lens that was causing fluid build-up and dangerous pressure to form in his eye. “We had noticed th...

A yellow-crowned night heron spread its wings over Spittal Pond in Smith’s yesterday. The elegant birds, found across North America, were once abundant on Bermuda, but were wiped out with early settlement in the 1600s. In 1976, several of the birds ...

A pitbull crossbreed on the loose in St George’s has terrorised residents. Now they want the owner of the dog tracked down and warned to keep it under control. Gillian Outerbridge said that she had had several run-ins with the dog in the area around ...

Sailors were warned yesterday to watch their speed after a turtle died as a result of being hit by a boat. Karen and Andrew McKeown found the injured male green turtle near Robinson’s Marina in Somerset and rushed it to the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum a...

The oldest harbour seal at the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo has died at the age of 35. A Bermuda Zoological Society spokeswoman said the seal, named Charlotte, died of complications from cancer last Thursday. The spokeswoman for the Flatts attrac...

Bermuda must do more to protect its environment, former Audubon Society president Andrew Dobson said yesterday. Mr Dobson, who is to retire to Britain after nearly 30 years on the island, said Bermuda had to introduce policies to tackle introduced sp...

A woman swimmer was chased by a three-foot-long sucker fish for an hour in a bizarre game of tag that left her with a bite on her toe. Rachel Ann Garbett said the remora fish stalked her as she swam from a boat in the waters off Admiralty Park House ...

US researchers have shone a light on Bermuda’s glow worms. Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History discovered the chemical that gives the Bermuda fireworms their glow is unique. The study published in PLOS One found that a “luciferase en...

New scientific research backs up what any visitor to Bermuda’s Dolphin Quest could tell you: the dolphin inhabitants enjoy interacting with humans as much as we enjoy playing with them. The study, published this summer in the journal Applied Animal ...