The team of birders piled into a truck on Anegada on Monday to make the usual route around the island for the National Audubon Society’s annual Christmas Bird Count. Led …
January 13, 2025
January 26, 2023
Christmas bird count turns up rare finds
The strikingly bright scarlet ibis is not a common sight in the Virgin Islands, but it has occasionally been spotted around the territory since its 2010 introduction to Necker Island. …
January 13, 2022
35 bird species spotted in Anegada
Birdwatching is easier when you know where to look. Luckily for those on the annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count in Anegada on Jan. 5, Rondel Smith Jr. is an expert. …
January 8, 2020
Birds counted: data collected on Tortola, Anegada
Scanning the horizon of Anegada with binoculars in hand, Nancy Woodfield-Pascoe and Clive Petrovic kept a careful watch for birds in the area. “Pelicans — I count four,” Mr. Petrovic …
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January 14, 2019
Bird numbers still down after Irma, Christmas count suggests
When the 2017 Christmas Bird Count showed that bird populations in the Virgin Islands had been decimated by the previous September’s hurricanes, Clive Petrovic was not surprised. A year later, …
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