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A Bermudian scientist’s dedication to saving the rare seabirds of Hawaii in one of the wettest places in the world has earned him the title of 2015 Recovery Champion. André Raine’s accolade from the United States Fish and Wildlife Service is all the ...

An unexpected visitor has been making itself at home in an abandoned cahow’s nest on Nonsuch Island. Thanks to infrared “CahowCams” installed in the nests by Nonsuch Expeditions team leader Jean-Pierre Rouja in 2012, new insights are being gained int...

The cahow chick that has been the star of the 2016 CahowCam livestream has been named Tempest. Chief conservation officer Jeremy Madeiros’s daughter, Elizabeth Madeiros, named the chick after the William Shakespeare play that was based on Bermuda’s f...

Hundreds of people were able to watch the hatching of a cahow chick on Nonsuch Island through a streaming live feed this weekend. According to Jeremy Madeiros, senior terrestrial conservation officer at the Department of Conservation, the first stage...

The Nonsuch Island Cahow-cam is up and running again as researchers hope to capture never-before-seen courtship behaviours. The streaming camera, which is hidden inside a man-made Cahow burrow, has previously recorded the incubation of eggs, the hatc...

Into every life a little rain must fall, and Andre Raine has had his share. The Bermudian ornithologist works in the mountains of Kauai, Hawaii, the wettest place on earth. “I get wet a lot,” said Dr Raine. “Rainstorms come really often. We have to b...

Dear Sir, As much as I enjoyed Rebecca Zuill’s update on the status of our Bermuda Petrels (RG May 1, 2015) I felt a growing concern with regards to the time element of the cahow’s rediscovery. Ms Zuill referred to “the early sixties” yet I have a c...

Bermuda is seeing the largest number of nesting pairs of cahows for more than 400 years. While the numbers of chicks are down this year owing to adverse nesting conditions affected by Hurricane Fay and Hurricane Gonzalo, the number of pairs, or bird ...

A British wildlife advocate hopes to use the Bermuda cahow to help save seabirds worldwide. Bruce Pearson, who is on the Island to sketch cahows, will discuss his efforts to protect the noted petrel at BUEI tonight. He hopes to use his drawings to ra...

The cahow colony on Nonsuch Island escaped from Hurricane Gonzalo unscathed and the area is ready for the imminent arrival of our national bird for the next breeding season. Conservation experts have been checking over the site, part of the Castle H...

A conservation invention championed by Bermudian environmentalist David Wingate has gone global. The seabird nest boxes that Dr Wingate designed have already proved to be a huge success helping to rebuild Cahow numbers in Bermuda. Now another island ...

The Bermuda Audubon Society celebrated its 60th anniversary with a dinner and special lecture by Dr Nigel Collar of BirdLife International. He gave the broad-ranging talk that touched on the impact of birds in everything from Renaissance art to the m...