Inside a cahow’s egg, the chick’s skull takes up most of the room – they are packed in tightly, their whole bodies folded up. When they hatch in late February and early March, in just hours they take up ten times the room that the egg they have just emerged from did, puffing up to a ridiculous size as their fluffy down dries out. The flamboyant grey down chicks are precious things – they represent incredible time and energy investment…
March 16, 2022
The Bermuda Beardfish, as it is proposed to be commonly named, marks a new discovery in the beardfish species. The new species falls under the genus Polymixia, and was discovered on Bermuda’s deep slope. Here are a few more interesting…
February 14, 2022
Edible flowers add a beautiful aesthetic to any meal that makes them instantly Instagram worthy. 1. Nasturtium Both the leaves and petals of the nasturtium plant are packed with nutrition, containing high levels of vitamin C. This peppery flavour…
January 30, 2022
This article was taken from our archives. It first appeared in our Fall 2006 issue. It appears here as it did originally. What could be sweeter than giving a present to your country and countrymen by wrapping up a…
October 11, 2021
This article was taken from our archives. It first appeared in the September 1953 issue of The Bermudian. It appears here exactly as it did originally. The Bougainvillea is regarded as the finest of the flowering climbing plants of the…
July 27, 2021
Where can you spot them? Green herons are a coastal bird, distributed throughout the island. You can spot them most easily within mangrove forests, or hunting on the edges of isolated islands. The green heron is one of two nesting…
July 5, 2021
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