If you want to know more about what happened at the meeting of The Society for the Conservation and Study of Caribbean Birds, check out this article from today’s Daily Herald.

If being able to fly isn’t enough, many birds are also pretty incredible when it comes to balancing in precarious spots. This female Carib Grackle was hanging out on the bare branches of a tree near the cemetery pond in Grand Case. Like about half of bird species, the grackle is a passerine, a group which includes most of the […]

(Continuing with the theme from the last post.) What is the unique aspect of St. Martin’s heritage that makes it not just another sunny island, but a story that visitors will remember and recount to their friends and family? I don’t think it is wildlife, or at least, I don’t think it is just wildlife. Promoting the real St. Martin […]

Roughly fifty years ago, St. Martin pivoted towards tourism as a new economic engine for the island. Although it seems like an obvious choice in retrospect, I think at the time it took remarkable foresight. The leaders at the time took a chance, and when cheaper air travel and increased cruise ship tourism became a reality, the island was ready […]

This white cockroach is not an albino, I just happened to find it shortly after molting. Because insects have a hard exoskeleton on the outside, they need to shed that exoskeleton to grow. The process is called molting, and when they emerge from their old exoskeleton they are soft until the new exoskeleton has time to expand and harden. (They […]

I’m going to be doing short wildlife articles for SXMInfo.fr. The first one is online now, about one of my favorite lizards that only lives on St. Martin. You can read it here.

Although I spent most of my time attending presentations and participating in workshops, I did have the chance to see some wildlife in Grenada and take a few photos. As you might guess, there are some familiar faces down there: many of the same birds live in both Grenada and St. Martin, and a number of the same introduced species […]

Here are a pair of gray kingbirds. They are a common bird on St. Martin, but this photo was taken in Grenada, where I spent the last week attending the meeting of the Society for the Conservation and Study of Caribbean Birds. It was an amazing meeting, with over 160 attendees from 35 different countries throughout the Caribbean and beyond. […]

Here are some great photos of the book launch event taken by Olivia Roudon. Once again, thanks to all who attended! The turnout was amazing, and it included many very generous people. Seventeen people participated in the buy-one-give-one program to donate books to local schools. We also had representatives from many of the island’s best environmental, educational and volunteer groups, […]

We are pleased to announce that the 2nd edition of The Incomplete Guide to the Wildlife of Saint Martin is now available in its entirety as a free download from this site. In keeping with our goal of making wildlife education as accessible as possible, we are happy to share this guide for free. You can download the guide via […]