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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 ...

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 photographer has captured a photo of a rare visitor to the island — a bird that flew more than 6,500 miles from the Antarctic. Fisherman Kevin Winter photographed the south polar skua which he said was “feeding aggressively around the boat without ...

A Smith’s Parish nature reserve has become home to unusual visitors seeking shelter from the stormy weather. A flock of 17 Bonaparte’s gulls were spotted at Spittal Pond on Tuesday, with another five at the Causeway in St George’s. Andrew Dobson, pre...

Sparrow-proof bluebird nesting boxes could help protect the species from invaders, an expert said yesterday. Stuart Smith of the Bermuda Bluebird Society, said bluebird boxes were often taken over by sparrows. But the addition of a perspex top and “s...

This year’s cahow breeding season could be a record breaker, experts predicted yesterday. Two thirds of the 125 known breeding pairs were nursing eggs by Friday. And viewers of the CahowCam — a livestream of a nest on breeding site Nonsuch Island — w...

An unusual feathered visitor has been spotted for only the second time in Bermuda. Birdwatcher Ian Fisher snapped a picture of a western tanager, first sighted in 2006 by David Wingate, in Ferry Point Park, the same location as the American songbird ...

A scarlet tanager has been spotted on the island en route to South America. The songbirds, which breed across the eastern United States, spend their winters outside the US. Andrew Dobson, president of the Bermuda Audubon Society, said the specimen ph...

An endangered bird has made its way to Bermuda from Prince Edward Island in Canada. The piping plover was spotted by Bermuda Audubon Society president Andrew Dobson at Cooper’s Island on Sunday. The small shorebird had been fitted with a tiny plastic...

A rare local seabird is pulling back from the brink of extinction thanks to a “100 per cent successful” breeding season. But conservationist David Wingate warned that the survival of Bermuda’s three remaining pairs of the common tern remains precario...

The results have come in for Bermuda’s latest Christmas Bird Count: 8,640 total birds across 93 species — as always, with a few special guests. The first spotting of an eider duck topped the highlights, with a ruby-throated hummingbird, snow goose an...

The first longtails of 2017 were spotted along South Shore on Sunday, according to the president of the Bermuda Audubon Society. Andrew Dobson said the four birds were observed off Warwick Long Bay. “Four keen birdwatchers were looking along South ...