Celebrate World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD) with us in 2022! This year’s theme is “Dim The Lights for Birds at Night”. Have fun learning about a new migratory bird every day. We have colouring pages, puzzles, activities, and more. Download for free and enjoy nature with your family at home. Migratory Bird of the Day: Roseate Tern Roseate Terns …
Celebrate World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD) with us in 2022! This year’s theme is “Dim The Lights for Birds at Night”. Have fun learning about a new migratory bird every day. We have colouring pages, puzzles, activities, and more. Download for free and enjoy nature with your family at home. Migratory Bird of the Day: Black-crowned Night-Heron While birdwatching …
Regional Seabird Census In order to effectively protect seabirds, we urgently need to improve knowledge of the distributions and sizes of populations throughout the Caribbean. We need a regional census program to bring the Caribbean seabird crisis to light and give us tools to develop the advocacy, protection, and management actions that these species need! …
Celebrate World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD) with us in 2022! This year’s theme is “Dim The Lights for Birds at Night”. Have fun learning about a new migratory bird every day. We have colouring pages, puzzles, activities, and more. Download for free and enjoy nature with your family at home. Migratory Bird of the Day: Peregrine Falcon It’s a …
Celebrate World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD) with us in 2022! This year’s theme is “Dim The Lights for Birds at Night”. Have fun learning about a new migratory bird every day. We have colouring pages, puzzles, activities, and more. Download for free and enjoy nature with your family at home. Migratory Bird of the Day: Swainson’s Warbler Swainson’s Warbler …
David S. Lee Fund for the Conservation of Caribbean Birds Inspiration: David S. Lee (1943–2014) was a naturalist and conservation biologist and an important early member of BirdsCaribbean (then the Society of Caribbean Ornithology). David was perhaps best known for his studies of seabirds of the Gulf Stream, yet he published hundreds of scientific papers …
Betty Petersen Conservation Fund Inspiration: Betty Petersen (1943-2013) was one of the founders of Birders’ Exchange, a program to engage people in birding through donations of optic equipment and resources to organizations in the United States, Canada, Latin America, and the Caribbean. The program was first housed at the (then) Manomet Bird Observatory and later …
Celebrate World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD) with us in 2022! This year’s theme is “Dim The Lights for Birds at Night”. Have fun learning about a new migratory bird every day. We have colouring pages, puzzles, activities, and more. Download for free and enjoy nature with your family at home. Migratory Bird of the Day: Red-footed Booby If you …
Celebrate World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD) with us in 2022! This year’s theme is “Dim The Lights for Birds at Night”. Have fun learning about a new migratory bird every day. We have colouring pages, puzzles, activities, and more. Download for free and enjoy nature with your family at home. Migratory Bird of the Day: Prothonotary Warbler Who’s that …
Susan, a certified bird guide from Bonaire, was out birding when she spotted a newly arrived Osprey perched on a post. Only when she looked back at her photos did she spot something different about this bird. Read on to find out more about this bird and its amazing migration from Susan. Fall migration is …
Disclaimer: The content of this article is provided for general information only. Please, always obtain professional or specialist advice when seeking to address your personal mental health issues and concerns. “The bird will see you now…” World Mental Health Day, recognized by the World Health Organization since 1992, takes place on October 10 every year. …
Celebrate World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD) with us in 2022! This year’s theme is “Dim The Lights for Birds at Night”. Have fun learning about a new migratory bird every day. We have colouring pages, puzzles, activities, and more. Download for free and enjoy nature with your family at home. Migratory Bird of the Day: Bobolink Be on the …
The 2022 joint AOS-BC Conference in Puerto Rico was the setting for BirdsCaribbean’s fourth biennial photography competition. Over 800 wildlife professionals from 34 countries attended the conference with many of them using their cameras while they explored Puerto Rico’s rich biodiversity. With over 280+ gorgeous photographs submitted for review, the five judges certainly had their …
Jennifer Wheeler, Chair of the Black-capped Petrel Working Group, shares an exciting annual update on research and on-the-ground conservation activities for this Endangered species. The Black-capped Petrel is locally called the Diablotín (“little devil”) because of the creepy call it makes upon return to its mountaintop burrow in the evening. But nothing is more sinister …
Celebrate World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD) with us in 2022! This year’s theme is “Dim The Lights for Birds at Night”. Have fun learning about a new migratory bird every day. We have colouring pages, puzzles, activities, and more. Download for free and enjoy nature with your family at home. Migratory Bird of the Day: Sanderling These striking pale-coloured …
BirdsCaribbean is delighted to announce the publication of a new graphic novel, just in time for World Shorebirds Day (September 6, 2022). “Sami the Snowy Plover: Stories of Survival” focuses on the vulnerability of these charming little shorebirds, which overwinter and nest on sandy beaches and salt flats on some islands throughout the Caribbean. You …
Naturalist, illustrator, and shorebird researcher Josmar Márquez, who has just produced an online graphic novel “Sami The Snowy Plover: Stories of Survival” shares some encouraging news from the offshore islands and cays of his native Venezuela. His research and field work on Coche Island and Margarita Island for AveZona was supported by BirdsCaribbean through the …
Celebrate World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD) with us in 2022! This year’s theme is “Dim The Lights for Birds at Night”. Have fun learning about a new migratory bird every day. We have colouring pages, puzzles, activities, and more. Download for free and enjoy nature with your family at home. Migratory Bird of the Day: American Oystercatcher With their …
We are very excited to welcome several new endemic birds to the Caribbean! Every year the American Ornithological Society publishes their supplement to the Check-list of North American Birds which includes taxonomic (classification) updates to North American bird species. This year, we had not one, not two…. but three different species splits! Hispaniolan Mango and …
On April 9th, 2021, La Soufrière Volcano, on the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent, began to erupt for the first time in 42 years. These explosive eruptions left the conservation community gravely concerned about impacts to the island’s wildlife and vegetation. Using funds raised through our volcano recovery campaign, BirdsCaribbean, the Saint Vincent Department of …
It’s been a tough couple of years, we must admit, but a global pandemic was no match for the determination and grit of the BirdsCaribbean community. In the face of unprecedented challenges—stay at home orders, canceled flights and closed borders—we found a way to not only survive but thrive. At our recently held international conference …
As islands across the Caribbean began to ease restrictions on gatherings due to COVID-19, we were finally able to take a break from our screens and meet, in-person, with our friends and colleagues! At events across the region, we saw people of all ages coming together to celebrate birds – in cities, botanical gardens, and …
Jen Valiulis, Executive Director, St. Croix Environmental Association (SEA) shares her recent experience hosting a BirdSleuth Caribbean Workshop in St Croix, US Virgin Islands, April 5 & 6, 2022. Follow along for a vicarious experience of the workshop, and see what the educators discovered and how they are putting what they learned to use! Through …
Black Birders Week is a social media campaign which seeks to highlight the important presence of people of color in the birding and conservation communities. It is a week-long celebration, organized by the Black AF in STEM Collective, of Black outdoor enthusiasts, naturalists, and conservationists, focusing on their cultural perspectives of the world in which …
Sustained harassment of nesting Brown Pelicans (Pelecanus occidentalis) in Le Gosier, Guadeloupe, in recent years, has resulted in the abandonment of the largest colony of this species in the French Caribbean islands. BirdsCaribbean is greatly concerned by this unfortunate development and urges French authorities to take action to stop any harassment and ensure the birds …
This May, the core committee of the BirdsCaribbean Seabird Working Group (SWG) will begin a series of webinars to help conservation practitioners across the Caribbean prepare for engagement in a 2023 regional seabird census. To accommodate varying levels of expertise, the series begins with the basics and will build in complexity as the weeks progress. …
A brand new Caribbean Endemic Bird Festival (CEBF) competition is here! Sharpen your pencil, polish your pen, hit the keyboard—we are hosting a Story and Poetry Competition! Storytelling is one of the great Caribbean traditions. Only a few would call themselves storytellers but we know everyone has a story to tell. We are calling on …
The following short story is an excerpt from “A Collection of Cultural Myths, Tales and Beliefs About Caribbean Birds” – a fascinating electronic compilation of stories, poems, and art that highlight the roles birds play in shaping our understanding of the natural world, social norms, and even beliefs about the afterlife. The ebook will be …
Join BirdsCaribbean, the Caribbean Birding Trail and talented Cuban bird guide, Tania Piñeiro, on the adventure of a lifetime in January or March of 2023! Cuba is well-known for its amazing landscapes, vibrant culture and unique biodiversity. According to the new Annotated Checklist of the Birds of Cuba: 2022 Edition, 398 birds have been recorded in …
For 48 long and terrifying hours, Hurricane Dorian–one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes on record–pummeled the northwest islands of Abaco and Grand Bahama in The Bahamas. The aftermath was absolute devastation to homes, communities and habitats for wildlife including some of The Bahamas’ charismatic species like the Bahama Parrot, Bahama Nuthatch, Bahama Warbler and Bahama …
