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A cahow egg on the protected sanctuary of Nonsuch Island has begun to show signs of imminent hatching, which can be watched live via the online CahowCam. Jeremy Madeiros, the chief terrestrial conservation officer, spotted the cracking during a routi...

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...

The cahow breeding programme has set new records this year with 61 chicks successfully taking flight. Jeremy Madeiros, senior terrestrial conservation officer and Cahow Recovery Programme manager, said 117 established breeding pairs were recorded, in...

The arrival of a healthy cahow chick, the latest addition to Bermuda’s now thriving of the endangered national bird, was watched around the world courtesy of the CahowCam, which broadcast its hatching. The chick, which emerged on 9.45pm on Thursday n...

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 ...