Tag: red-footed booby bird
Plan proposed to protect nesting seabirds
(CNS): The National Conservation Council has issued a draft Seabird Conservation Plan for public consultation to protect six of Cayman’s vanishing colonial nesting seabirds. Department of Environment (DoE) Director Gina Ebanks-Petrie has warned that some of the Cayman Islands’ most recognisable birds could be lost due to habitat loss, coastal development and invasive species unless […]
NCC to consider protection plans for seabirds
(CNS): When it meets today, the National Conservation Council will be considering a proposed Species Conservation Plan to protect nesting seabirds of the Cayman Islands and help stabilize and grow increasingly threatened populations. On the agenda for the NCC’s first public meeting for more than four months are a number of local environmental issues, including […]
Booby meets sad end at Turtle Centre
(CNS): A red-footed booby bird rescued by wildlife volunteers in the UK when it turned up on a pebble beach along the south coast of England and returned to the Cayman Islands just before Christmas has died. Named ‘Norman’ by his rescuers, the bird was believed to have lost his way during migration and ended […]
‘Norman’ comes home for Christmas
(CNS): A red-footed booby bird discovered many thousands of miles from home, underweight and dehydrated, on a pebble beach along the UK’s south coast in September has flown back home to Cayman in time for Christmas. British press reports reveal that the bird, which was nicknamed ‘Norman’, flew the 5,000 journey back last week after […]
