Arts
Rare Birds by Elizabeth Gehrman
In April 2009, freelance writer Elizabeth Gehrman was in Bermuda working on a travel story for the Boston Globe Magazine when she went to Nonsuch Island with Jeremy Madeiros to see Somers, the first cahow chick born on the island in nearly 400 years. En route, Madeiros filled her in. The cahow, he said, nested only in Bermuda and spent the rest of its life at sea, flying thousands of miles a week, drinking seawater and sleeping on the wing.…
February 7, 2013