The Cahow Recovery Programs’ 2017 - 2018 Breeding Season Report 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).

The primary objective of this program is to increase the Cahow’s breeding population through the control of threats to the species, construction of artificial nesting burrows, and the establishment of entirely new nesting colonies.

The Recovery Program has been in place since 1960 and has been successful in addressing most of the threats to the Cahow. This program has enabled the breeding population to increase from only 18 pairs producing a total of 8 chicks annually in the early 1960s to a record number of 124 breeding pairs in 2018, producing a record total of 71 successfully fledged chicks. (J.Madeiros, 2017-2018 Report on Cahow Recovery Program)