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A Bermuda bird conservation charity is exploring a potential name change to distance itself from John James Audubon, the anti-abolitionist slave owner it derives from. The Bermuda Audubon Society said the conversation had begun in light of other orga...

Scores of dead seabirds have been found washed up on South Shore beaches in the wake of Tropical Storm Alex. According to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources the cause of death of the greater shearwaters is probably due to the annual ...

Bermuda’s national bird, once thought to be extinct, has set another record on its road to recovery. Cahow chicks are now fledging on their island refuge at Castle Harbour – meaning they will set off on their first flights out to sea from now until m...

Owners of bluebird boxes are being reminded to monitor them regularly as the nesting season is now in full flow. The boxes are frequently taken over by house sparrows, which are known to attack Bermuda’s native bluebirds and threaten their populatio...

The USA’s national bird has been spotted on the hunt in Bermuda for the first time in 34 years

Miguel Mejias’s dream was to become a marine biologist but his plan fell to pieces when he discovered he couldn’t dive. A chance meeting with David Wingate gave him a new purpose. As part of the Bermuda College’s virtual 2022 Roche Science event on W...

Eagle-eyed bird watchers logged 7,561 individual birds in one day during Bermuda’s 47th annual Christmas Bird Count. A total of 83 species were seen on the “count day” – Saturday, December 18 – and an additional 12 species were spotted during the “c...

Dear Sir, The report on the falcon in Hamilton brought to mind the falcon we saw last week on the 6th hole of Ocean View Golf Club. One of the groundskeepers brought my attention to this falcon which had killed a feral chicken. Unfortunately, the ch...

A rare barn owl was captured on camera after it was spotted on the Railway Trail in broad daylight. Magnus Henagulph said he was able to snatch a photograph of the bird, usually a night creature, as it rested on a tree branch earlier this week. Mr He...

The flight path of a great blue heron that stopped off in Bermuda during a 2,000 mile-plus migration from Canada to Cuba has been tracked by a team of US scientists. The heron, named Harper, left her summer feeding ground in New Brunswick, Canada, on...

A rare bird was tracked flying over Bermuda as part of an 18,000 mile migration from South America to the Arctic Circle and back. The bird, a red knot, was tagged with a tracking device by researchers in New Jersey last August and was tracked to Berm...

Birdwatchers are flocking to a man-made pond at LF Wade International Airport to see birds who have taken a liking to the area. Paul Watson, a member of the Bermuda Audubon Society, said that about 55 species had been spotted at the pond in the last ...