The 2021 Cahow Nesting Season is off to a great start with the Cahows returning to Nonsuch and the smaller outer islands for courtship and nest-building.
Watch the video below to see Jeremy conduct the first health check for the newly returned Cahow pair from CahowCam2 burrow on Nonsuch Island.
The pairs will then head out to sea for December with the female returning in early January to lay their single egg. She is usually relieved of her incubation duty by the male within hours who will take on the first several week shift so that she can go back out to sea to recharge. They will then alternate shorter shifts until the egg hatches around the beginning of March after which the chick is generally left on its own whilst the parents make several hundred mile excursions to find its food North of the Gulf Stream until around the end of May when it fledges.