October 25th: Our star CahowCam 1 pair have returned to their burrow on Nonsuch Island, for the official start of the the CahowCam nesting season. Watch their LIVEstream here
“These long-lived, mainly monogamous birds are so synchronized with each other, that even after being separated by thousands of miles for the last 5 months, they arrive back at the burrow within hours of each other. It never ceases to amaze me.
They spend the non-breeding period widely separated, as both birds were fitted with GLS tags in the past. The male (band no. E0197) bird summers northwest of the Azores Islands, 2400 miles northeast of Bermuda, while the female (band no. E0212) goes south of Nova Scotia, hundreds of miles to the North of Bermuda.”
Jeremy Madeiros Chief Terrestrial Conservation Officer
The will spend the next few weeks nest building and copulating, will head back out to sea for December to feed and recharge then the female will return to lay here single egg in early January. Her mate usually returns to take on the first incubation shift within hours which they alternate until, if all goes well, the check hatches around early March. They the spend the next 3 months on feeding runs ranging anywhere from a few hundred to several thousand miles per trip until the chick fledges in late May / early June.
This it the 10th year / 11th season that LookBermuda’s Nonsuch Expeditions custom built CahowCams have been filming and LIVEstreaming from the underground burrows on Nonsuch Island with 10’s of millions of minutes of video now having been watched by researchers, students and followers from around the World.