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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 ...

The Bermuda Audubon Society has recently released two new bird identification cards to help new birdwatchers. One card features all of Bermuda’s breeding birds with migratory land birds on the reverse side, while the second card features Bermuda’s se...

Sea cucumbers may seem an unlikely source of revenue. But behind the scenes in a small facility on Coney Island, aquaculture experts are investigating the potential of farming this valuable and vital marine species. The ground-breaking work could hel...

A Bermudian photographer has won an award in a prestigious international competition that celebrates the beauty of the ocean. Andrew Stevenson’s picture of a humpback whale in the middle of its northern migration claimed the title of most publicly li...

A Trindade petrel has been sighted for the first time in Bermuda. Wildlife rehabilitator and eco-tour guide Lynn Thorne made the exciting discovery on Friday while on a cahow watch two miles east of the Island with visiting ornithologist Bob Flood a...

Conservationists are continuing to monitor a freshwater pond in Somerset where two piranha-like fish were found. The red-bellied pacu, which are native to the river basins of Brazil, were both more than 50 centimetres long and weighed over eight poun...

Six Columbus crabs have found a new home in the UK after travelling across the Atlantic Ocean on the back of a buoy. The crabs, which measure about half an inch in diameter, are thought to have come from the Sargasso Sea off the coast of Bermuda. P...

Wildlife television presenter Nigel Marven is visiting Bermuda to discuss his experiences filming albatrosses with Sir David Attenborough. Marven, who is an ornithologist and author, worked with Sir David for 12 years in the BBC Natural History Unit ...

It’s never too late to follow your dreams. Jessica Riederer’s dream is to earn a living shooting wildlife. The 41-year-old photographer wants to do it with her lens — not a bullet. She’s given herself a year to see if it works. “I took part in the Ar...

At 95 years old, Crooked Nose the Galapagos tortoise holds a unique record at the zoo. Although he is middle aged in tortoise terms, he is the zoo’s oldest resident and typical of the establishment’s ageing population that requires constant attention...

A tabled amendment to the Bird Protection Act could extend the power to destroy “pest” birds to any member of the public who is authorised by the Environment Minister. And a separate amendment to the Firearms Act would also pave the way for certain c...

The remains of a peregrine falcon have been found in Paget after possibly being struck by a car. Luke Fountain said he discovered the body of the bird of prey on top of a dead chicken near Coral Beach last Friday. “It was evident that the hawk had be...