The Cahow Recovery Program's Breeding Season Report, for the nesting season of October 2015 to June 2016, is now available for download.
The Cahow Recovery Program is a long-term management, research and recovery program for Bermuda’s National Bird, the critically endangered Cahow, or Bermuda petrel (Pterodroma cahow). This program focuses on encouraging the increase of the breeding population through control of threats to the species, construction of artificial nesting burrows, and the establishment of entirely new nesting colonies.
The Cahow Recovery Program has continued to achieve both its primary objective of increasing the Cahow breeding population, and secondary objectives of establishing new nesting colonies and increasing public outreach and education. This is despite several threats to the breeding population during the 2015-2016 nesting season, including the invasion of several nesting islands by rats, a known predator on Cahow chicks. Regular monitoring of the entire breeding population has proved to be indispensable for rapid identification and management of threats as they arise.