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Dear Sir, I am a visitor to Bermuda and last Thursday was walking along the Railway Trail, having just passed The Fairmont Southampton on my way back to Hamilton when I was attacked and badly bitten by a large light-tan dog. I needed treatment and th...

A 30-year-old Southampton man has been fined $1,000 for keeping two illegal dogs. Appearing in Magistrates’ Court yesterday, Dion Smith pleaded guilty to keeping a black female pitbull-type dog and a fawn male pitbull-type dog without a licence in So...

Birdwatching seems tame until the cops show up. One day, Andrew Dobson was using binoculars to look at shorebirds on the LF Wade Airport runway when he was stopped by a police officer. The avid bird-watcher quickly pointed to the whimbrels he’d been ...

This osprey was photographed soaring in the skies above Fort Scaur on Sunday. Keen photographer Roland Tear snapped the photo of the osprey, a species occasionally spotted in Bermuda over the winter. Mr Tear has been taking photos for more than ten...

Animal advocacy group Punish the Deed has renewed its call for a dog amnesty after helping to arrange for the export of two seized dogs from Bermuda. Both pets, which would have faced euthanasia had they remained on the Island, were flown to a tempor...

A Pembroke couple were fined in Magistrates’ Court for owning a pair of illegal pitbulls involved in an attack on a young boy. Kirk and Terry-Lynn Wade, both 52, pleaded guilty to two counts of owning unlicensed pitbulls. The court heard that at abo...

A loggerhead turtle that underwent a three-and-a-half-hour operation to remove a large rusting hook from her trachea is making a steady recovery. The turtle, who has been named Daisy by the hospital surgeons who helped save her life, has been moved i...

A seven-strong team of hospital doctors and marine experts worked around the clock to give a stricken loggerhead turtle a fighting chance of life. The spectacular 60kg marine creature was rescued by free divers Shaun Holland and Aaron Bean off the No...

It is almost exactly a year since Swizzle the cat left Bermuda to be reunited with his owners in England — and there is little doubt he is thriving in his new home. Jon and Naomi Smyth say that although the British weather can make him a little grump...

Birdwatchers were treated to a rare first sighting of a new species for the Island courtesy of the Bermuda Audubon Society’s Christmas Bird Count. The Eurasian Marsh Harrier, a bird of prey that crossed the Atlantic to get here, was spotted on Decemb...

A seabird native to an island off the coast of Brazil was recently spotted off the coast of Bermuda, flying with a group of cahows. According to the Bermuda Audubon Society’s winter newsletter, a small group taking part in bird-banding studies on Non...

The Bermuda Government is reviewing its policy on dealing with banned dogs after they have been seized. Owners of prohibited breeds could be able to export their pets, when it is “logistically and financially viable”, according to the Ministry of Hea...