Bonaire Bird Blog
The Bonaire Bird Blog will keep you up-to-date on the island’s latest news and bird sightings.
The Bonaire Bird Blog will help you learn more about Bonaire’s birds before you travel!
On the Bonaire Bird Blog, you will find information about Bonaire’s birds, birding hot-spots, conservation tips, island birdwatching events, as well as recent notable sightings. Peruse the blog’s various posts prior to your birding tour on Bonaire. By learning more about Bonaire’s birds in advance, you’ll enjoy your tour to the fullest extent.
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The latest posts from the Bonaire Bird Blog:
Long-Distance Bonaire Birding
With some borders still closed and social distancing the new norm around the world, today’s guest author, Peter-Paul Schets, proves that one can still enjoy birding on Bonaire, even though
Captive-born Parrots are released by Echo Bonaire
On Saturday morning, July 18, 2020, a few humans joined together with smiles on their faces as six captive-born parrots, along with one rehabilitated parrot, stretched their wings for the first time. Echo Foundation
The Brown Noddy, a Rare Bird for Bonaire.
Earlier this week, I made my way down to Bonaire’s southwestern coast, as it had been some time since I was there. I hoped to be able to spot some tern chicks, but what actually happened was much more exciting! As I
The Vagrant White-winged Tern
Although this sighting on Bonaire is not the first vagrant sighting of the White-winged Tern in the Caribbean, it IS the first sighting for the ABC islands–Aruba, Bonaire, or Curacao–so it’s a very
The Secret Life of Terns–Courtship Behaviors
They do not sneak in, one by one or two by two, but they seem to arrive en masse! One day they are not here, and it seems that, overnight, the island is mobbed by the arriving gulls and terns. While North American
Join Me on Team Flying Pintails on Global Big Day!
We are now in countdown-mode for Global Big Day this Saturday, May 9th, 2020! I am a team member of Team Flying Pintails, and I invite you to join me and count birds no matter where you are or your travel
Meet Peter-Paul Schets, Bonaire’s Top Birder
Peter-Paul Schets currently holds the honor of being Bonaire’s top birdwatcher. On his quarterly professional visits to Bonaire, he manages to bird both early mornings and late afternoons, and, at the time of writing, he
Fancy Males–Everything You’ve Always Wanted to Know
We humans have it backward. Females get gussied up with hair, nails, and clothes to impress the males of our species. Instead, we should do as birds do! Let the male attend to all that and he can become a fancy male!
3 New Bird Species Observed on Bonaire in 2019
Top eBirder for Bonaire, Peter-Paul Schets, recently detailed the three new bird species found in 2019, bringing the total number of bird species recorded on Bonaire to 235. 2019 proved to be an
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