Category Archives: News

New Album “On Expedition” Captures the Spirit of Les Fruits de Mer

The sound of excitement and adventure comes alive in the new album On Expedition with Les Fruits de Mer. Composed and recorded by Marc AuMarc over the past year on St. Martin and on location elsewhere in the Caribbean, the twelve-track album explores and deconstructs the Les Fruits de Mer association’s iconic theme song across …

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Archaeology + Biology

Today there was an open house at a pre-Colombian archaeological dig site near our apartment. In Grand Case, these sites have some pottery, stone tools and bones, but the majority of the artifacts are shells, primarily conch and whelk. Scattered around the dig site, I noticed a few shells from the Giant African Land Snail, …

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Free Pond Life Ebook Released for 2016 Migratory Bird Festival

In preparation for their upcoming Migratory Bird Festival, Les Fruits de Mer have released a free ebook, Pond Life. With vivid photography and fascinating facts, the book showcases seven bird species that are found on St. Martin’s ponds. Pond Life is available for free download on the association’s website. “St. Martin’s ponds are perhaps the …

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Help Bring Local Bird Education Program to the French Caribbean

The nonprofit association Les Fruits de Mer is looking for help making the Caribbean’s most exciting new science curriculum available in French. Their goal is to leverage the power of crowdsourcing to complete the translation of the BirdSleuth Caribbean program from English into French. Anyone interested in joining the effort is encouraged to contact the …

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Help Bring Local Bird Education Program to the French Caribbean

The nonprofit association Les Fruits de Mer is looking for help making the Caribbean’s most exciting new science curriculum available in French. Their goal is to leverage the power of crowdsourcing to complete the translation of the BirdSleuth Caribbean program from English into French. Anyone interested in joining the effort is encouraged to contact the …

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Unsung Stories of Caribbean Naturalists Come Alive at Book Fair Presentation

Discover the fascinating, largely unknown stories of the incredible women and men who helped to build the scientific heritage of the Caribbean at a special multimedia presentation at the 2016 St. Martin Book Fair. Women, People of Color, and the Making of Natural History in the Caribbean, is free and open to the public and …

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Learn Bird Photography with Free Ebook

Bird photography is the subject of a new free ebook, Bird Shots, produced by the Les Fruits de Mer association. The book is a guide designed to help readers improve their bird photography and get more enjoyment from the hobby. “Bird photography has its own specific challenges, and getting the best results requires a certain …

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Iguana Day Video

We did a short video of the Anguilla Iguana Day festivities, including a walk around Cove Pond where we saw some invasive Green Iguanas as well a lot of native wetland wildlife, including Black-necked Stilts and their nests. In the afternoon, there wer…

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Anguilla Iguana Day

On Saturday, Les Fruits de Mer had the chance to engage in some inter-island wildlife education cross-pollination at the first annual Anguilla Iguana Day, hosted by the Anguilla National Trust. Including a wetland walk to see some invasive Green Iguanas and an afternoon full of games and crafts, it was a wonderful chance to learn …

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Great Salt Pond, April 2016

While we were shooting some video for an Endemic Animal Festival preview film we also stopped on the pondfill and captured a bit of what’s happening down a the Great Salt Pond. Here’s 20 seconds on the pond:

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