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The Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo provided care to 15 longtails, of which nine survived

Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo released the bird after monitoring its condition and providing it with care for several weeks

Jeremy Madeiros introduces a study group from Massachusetts to a male chick

Researchers are monitoring an adult longtail and chick in a nest along a street in Hamilton

Radio telemetry tags are placed on the seabirds to monitor movement and behaviour

Audubon Society claims excavation work at the Bermudiana Beach Resort has damaged a shoreline cliff

Lovers of Bermuda’s iconic Longtail can now watch a chick being raised by its parents in a nest on Nonsuch Island thanks to modern technology. Following on the wildly popular cahow cam, the longtail cam is a livestream of a chick hatched on April 24...

The traditional harbingers of spring returned to Bermuda last week. The first longtails of 2021 were spotted by sharp-eyed nature photographer LeShun Smith, although the group of about 15 birds were well offshore of Church Bay, Southampton. Mr Smith ...

This year’s hurricane season underlined the need to protect Bermuda’s national bird, researchers have said. Jeremy Madeiros, the chief terrestrial conservation officer at the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, said in the winter edition...

A six-week-old longtail chick was saved from the wrath of Hurricane Humberto thanks to a kindhearted resident. Lisa Whitehead, from Grape Bay, Paget, took Shermy the chick from his nest shortly before Humberto’s arrival last Wednesday because she kne...

Dear Sir, Tired of longtails as our national symbol? No worries. Pigeons are proliferating and ready to replace the longtail on airport art, trinkets, jewellery and T-shirts, and most importantly in our skies. Ridiculous you say? Then come to the Ea...

The hatching of a longtail chick was captured live on camera this week. Jean-Pierre Rouja, team leader at Nonsuch Expeditions, said the “Cam chick” arrived on Tuesday from one of the earliest longtail egg layings recorded. The chick’s growth will be ...