Here’s a third set of photos from the festival, with guests checking in and getting their bird checklists, chatting about birds and a few shots of the beach where the tour wrapped up (and where Kristin and Marc were able to pick up lots of trash, big and small). Thanks again to everyone who came to the festival!
We had a ton of kids at the Migratory Bird Festival and did a lot of bird-related art, including coloring, drawing and clay sculpture. Les Fruits de Mer member Stephen was the ringleader of the kids area and Tumay from Art Summer Camp Sxm brought clay and helped the kids make some amazing bird sculptures. Art supplies were sponsored by […]
We’ve got a ton of great photos of the Migratory Bird Festival from Olivia Roudon. We’ll be sharing them in a few sets, this first one showcases the mangrove discovery trail and folks enjoying the guided tours as well as just exploring the trail on their own. We were incredibly excited to have about 200 people visiting this beautiful site […]
I’m headed to Statia tomorrow for the Statia Sustainable Conference to give a talk about water, wildlife and sustainable tourism development. I’m really looking forward to it, and I have heard only great things about the conference. Hopefully I’ll be sharing a few wildlife photos here in a couple days featuring species that are present on Statia, but not on […]
The Daily Herald Bird Watch SXM column for this week explains a little bit more about the upcoming Migratory Bird Festival, why these birds are worth celebrating and the site where the festival will be held: http://www.thedailyherald.com/index.php/supplements/weekender/42702-migratory-birds-deserve-celebration.html Join the event and invite your friends and family here: https://www.facebook.com/events/518285941588370/
There was a feature about the upcoming Migratory Bird Festival in The Daily Herald’s Out ‘n About section this week. Check it out! For more information about the event, visit: or join the event on Facebook.
Here’s a photo of one of the amblypygids (also known as whipspiders or tailless whipscorpions) that I saw at Loterie Farm with the kids from the Be the Change/Nature Foundation program. When I saw it, and even when I was posting the photos, I assumed it was Phrynus goesii, the species we usually see here. However, Karl Questel pointed out […]
Get ready for the biggest birding event of the year! We will be hosting a special event in honor of the birds that fly thousands of miles to visit St. Martin each fall. Part of International Migratory Bird Day, there will be plenty of activities and guided tours of the mangrove discovery trail at Étang de la Barrière right next […]
If you liked the photos I posted of seabirds at Dog Island, you might enjoy this video from CaribinTV, with some nice footage from the same visit. http://www.caribintv.com/dog-island The yellow subtitles make it look even more like lost footage from a Cousteau expedition. I think a couple of the figures I give for the number of nesting pairs of birds […]
Yesterday was the first session of a really great program put together by Nature Foundation SXM and Be The Change SXM to do wildlife and marine life training with a group of kids who don’t normally have opportunities like this. I’ll post more about the program during the month, but for now, I’d like to thank the donors who funded […]