What can we learn about Statian wildlife and the history of Statian natural history studies from a museum collection thousands of kilometers away? Quite a bit, in fact!

Wild Statia takes a look at the often heard, but seldom seen, visitors from North America. Who’s hiding in the Quill this year?

In this week’s Wild Statia article, we take a close-up look at one of the challenges of creating a wildlife guide: wildlife photography! Of course, to be fair, the photography is also one of the most fun and rewarding parts of working on the book.

If you have been wondering what Les Fruits de Mer has been working on in Statia (Sint Eustatius), but you only speak Dutch then today is your lucky day. You can read about our work in this article in Change Magazine. (If you don’t speak Dutch, the same article is conveniently available in English as …

I spent last week in the field working on the upcoming Statia wildlife book with Hannah Madden and it was a blast. We saw—and documented—many things, and I’m still going through my photos. In the meantime, the most recent Wild Statia article explains a bit about working in the field.

Anyone with an interest in Statia and its wildlife is in for a real treat: a free ebook—Wild Statia—was just released by naturalists Hannah Madden and Mark Yokoyama. The 55-page book is illustrated with captivating photos taken by the authors. The book’s fifteen chapters each take a closer look at a unique aspect of Statia’s …

Offhand comments about Caribbean wildlife from centuries past—they may not be that useful from a scientific perspective, but they tell us so much about past attitudes towards wildlife. In this week’s Wild Statia column, we look at Statian wildlife from a 1792 perspective.

Offhand comments about Caribbean wildlife from centuries past—they may not be that useful from a scientific perspective, but they tell us so much about past attitudes towards wildlife. In this week’s Wild Statia column, we look at Statian wildlife from a 1792 perspective.

As International Migratory Bird Day events take place across the Caribbean this month, we take a look at the migratory songbirds that spend their winters in Statia. Read about them in The Daily Herald‘s Weekender.

Science and history collide in the story of how the first Sphaerodactylus dwarf gecko species was collected on Statia.