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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...

Bermuda’s famous cahows have 50 new purpose-built homes ready and waiting for them on Nonsuch Island. The artificial nest boxes were designed by former conservation officer David Wingate and donated to the Cahow Recovery Project by Bermuda Audubon So...

David Wingate began to change the world, or at least a tiny speck of it at the easternmost end of Bermuda, when he was just a 15-year-old schoolboy. Teased by his classmates because of both his prominent, beaklike nose and equally pronounced love of ...

Bird watchers spotted a cahow off the coast of Ireland on Monday. The sighting marks the farthest Bermuda’s national endemic bird has ever been observed, Dr David Wingate confirmed yesterday. “This is the most remote sighting we have seen so far,” sa...

A Bermuda cahow has been spotted more than 600 miles from home in waters off Canada. The bird was photographed by Michael Force, who was on-board a research vessel approximately 130 miles south of Cape Sable — around 615 miles north of Bermuda. Alth...

Bermuda’s critically endangered Cahow population has continued to grow thanks to the work of dedicated conservationists. According to the 2012/13 Cahow Recovery Programme Report, by the Department of Conservation Services, a total of 105 nesting pair...

It’s an unlikely friendship — but peer into a cahow burrow, and while Daisy — the chick who was born there — looks up at you with her big black eyes, Findlay the friendly skink slowly emerges, blinking, from his playmate’s fluffy baby feathers. It’s...

Backson eats a lot, is blinged out and has his own reality show. He’s a modern cahow bird, part of the first generation of cahows to be hatched from Nonsuch Island. He is also the first cahow on Nonsuch Island to have his entire life so far (12 weeks...