by Bonaire | Apr 15, 2024 | About Bonaire's Birds, Noteworthy Bird Sightings
While birding recently in the southern salt ponds, a splash of color caught my eye. Tucked amongst the familiar Black-necked Stilts, a large shorebird sported an unmistakable feature – a shockingly pink bill with a black, elongated tip. This wasn’t
by Bonaire | Sep 12, 2022 | About Bonaire's Birds, Noteworthy Bird Sightings
It was with a mixture of disbelief, delight, and awe, with a huge smile crossing my face, that I first set eyes on (the first observation of) a White-tailed-Kite, here on Bonaire.
by Bonaire | Jul 16, 2021 | About Bonaire's Birds, Noteworthy Bird Sightings
This past week found two exceptionally rare bird sightings on Bonaire:Â A Wattled Jacana, only the second sighting in history, and the first Blue-and-white Swallow, a new bird for
by Bonaire | Apr 22, 2021 | About Bonaire's Birds, Noteworthy Bird Sightings
With the spring migration season well underway, birders on Bonaire are seeing some great sightings, such as a Northern Parula and even a Scarlet Tanager in bright red breeding plumage! But a bird
by Bonaire | Oct 22, 2020 | Bonaire Birdwatching Events, Noteworthy Bird Sightings
Last Saturday, October Global Big Day, four of Bonaire’s most intrepid birders took to the roads, beaches, marshes, salt ponds, salinas, and fields, in order to catalog exactly what avian
by Bonaire | Sep 30, 2020 | About Bonaire's Birds, Noteworthy Bird Sightings
Last week, fall officially opened with the autumn equinox, and it appears that Bonaire’s migrating birds have been following the calendar as well, as many rare birds are arriving on our shores.