The upcoming book The Incomplete Guide to the Wildlife of Statia is being finalized this summer. The book will be the first wildlife guide for the island. The authors, Hannah Madden and Mark Yokoyama invite Statians to submit photos of wildlife for inclusion in the book. “Right now, the book has about 500 photos,” explained …
The upcoming book The Incomplete Guide to the Wildlife of Statia is being finalized this summer. The book will be the first wildlife guide for the island. The authors, Hannah Madden and Mark Yokoyama invite Statians to submit photos of wildlife for inclusion in the book. “Right now, the book has about 500 photos,” explained …
New research is telling us more about Caribbean wildlife each year. Discoveries on Statia and nearby islands are piecing together one of the most fascinating puzzles in the world.
Even eating machines need a way to defend themselves! On Statia, a wide variety of defense techniques are used by various species, and these caterpillars have their own approach to staying safe:
How fast can a snail go from obscurity on The Quill to fame in the pages of a scientific journal? Read this week’s Wild Statia to find out! (Spoiler: not super fast.)
A closer look at a photo of a Statian spider raises some questions. Then again, a closer look at any insect or spider in the Caribbean has the potential to do that. Read it in this weekend’s Wild Statia column in The Daily Herald.
In some ways, taxonomy is the art of keeping things organized in a world where our knowledge about animals and how they are related to each other is always changing. In Statia, and the Caribbean in general, the story of our fauna is still being written, and the names of the characters are still subject …
A large percentage of the bird species that have been observed on Statia are, broadly-speaking, wetland species. On an island with no lakes or rivers, how can that be?
The recent discovery of a hybrid iguana on Statia is an ominous sign for the native and endangered Lesser Antillean Iguana. It is also a reminder that humans have likely changed the pace of evolution on the island in many ways. Statia’s distinctive wildlife is the product of a variety of natural processes: the slow …
This week, take a little trip through the food web on Statia, from a favorite tree to a beautiful moth, a painful predator and one of my favorite birds.