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One Man’s Lifelong Passion: The Cahow & Nonsuch Island
This article was taken from our archives. It first appeared in the September 1993 issue of The Bermudian. It appears here exactly as it did originally. More than forty years ago the world scientific community was stunned by the announcement that the cahow - a bird which had come to symbolize extinction - had just been rediscovered. The Bermuda petrel was long thought to have become extinct in the 1600’s at the hands of mankind, at about the same time…
November 2, 2022