Biological Tours of Bonaire- Jerry C Ligon

05/09/2015

03/09/2015

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01/09/2015

New advances in the field identification of dowitchers

30/08/2015

1 more bird species added to my yearly total here On Bonaire.

The premier destination for birding on the Web.

16/08/2015

The premier destination for birding on the Web.

08/08/2015

We knew that people who lived around trees were richer, healthier, safer and happier. Here's yet more evidence of the power of green.

08/08/2015

Bedrock place where my philosophy of life was formed during reading of "Sand County Almanac"

How Aldo Leopold came to conservationism. Aldo Leopold on a trip to the Rio Gavilan, ca. 1936. Photo: U.S. Forest ServiceOn the first day of April 1944, Aldo Leopold sat down at his desk to craft a confession. Leopold’s reputation was already growing across the country—a champion of modern wildlife…

05/08/2015

Welcome on the official tourism website of Bonaire! Bonaire is also known as Divers Paradise. Learn more about our Island, part of the Dutch Caribbean.

05/08/2015

Fall is an exciting time of the year for me as a bird watcher because it is the time of the year for the fall warblers to migrate to Bonaire. These birds must migrate to where insects are still abundant. Cold weather in North America has removed their food from under their sharp eyes, so they try a ancient behavior that has always meant survival for these tiny, colorful birds- migration to the Caribbean for the winter.
I look for Blackpoll Warblers, Northern Waterthrush, Prothonotary Warblers, Hooded Warblers, and many other brightly colored and tiny winged creatures. August and September every year is when I make my first encounter with these beautiful warblers.
Join me by calling 701-7960 and I will pick you up at 7:30am and we will finish around 1pm.

Enjoy the many photos on my web page, and keep up with my sightings by continually visiting this web page.

01/08/2015

Disgust revisited upon hearing of the magnificent animal, the lion , killed in Africa.

http://estes.on-line.com/samson/poaching.htm

The Estes Valley lost four elk to a pair of poachers within two hours Saturday, but each will face stiff fines for poaching offenses.

26/07/2015

" You provide me with a small bit of dishonesty, whether it be a ship's captain, a nuclear power plant's manager, a politician on the take, or a mentally imbalanced gun owner, and I will provide you with that one small, telling error that will create a catastrophe."

19/07/2015

Second sighting of Long-winged Harrier on Bonaire. Photo by Robin Burke. Sunday, July 19

04/06/2015

Found parrot nest. Yesterday's bike ride provided fourth sighting at same location.

12/05/2015

Semipalmated Sandpipers breed in the Arctic and winter in South America, Dr. Mizrahi has been fitting them with geolocators to find out more about their migration routes and critical stopover sites...

30/04/2015

New analysis doubles estimate of avian death tolls, revealing that hunting felines take bigger bite out of wildlife than expected.

30/04/2015

This was a difficult trip on multiple levels. Weather and road conditions prevented me from spending much time in our core search area, and a bad chest cold kept me out of the field almost entirely...

25/04/2015

The Southern Lapwing is a conspicuous inhabitant of grasslands and pastures from Panama and northern South America south to Tierra del Fuego. A large, crested lapwing, the Southern Lapwing has gray brown upperparts with a bronze sheen, a black breast band that extends up to the bird’s forehead, wing…

11/04/2015

Only found on Aruba, where this photo was taken. But I still wait for one to show up on Bonaire.

Cattle Tyrants usually forage in pairs or small groups on the ground where they run rapidly with upright posture in pursuit of terrestrial insects.

09/04/2015

Most common migrant warbler in October here on Bonaire. Experienced a fall out during a night of rain last October. Nocturnal migrants often get forced to the ground, if they are over land, during rain. We saw around 25 that morning of birding.

For more than 50 years, scientists had tantalizing clues suggesting that Blackpoll Warbler departs each fall from New England and … Read More

09/04/2015

Andrea Dingeldein is a natural-observer and photographer.

09/04/2015

Whimbrel. Frequently seen on Bonaire, but already in April, most have left to travel North to nest in Arctic.

Hope is going strong! She will soon be winging her way back from her tropical wintering grounds on Great Pond, in St. Croix, US Virgin Islands, where she has faithfully wintered for the last 7+ years, to her first spring stopover site in Virginia on her long migration back to her Arctic wintering grounds. Wishing you safe travels, Hope!

09/04/2015

Bobolinks are social throughout most of the year. They sit on high perches in meadows, but forage while walking on the ground.

27/03/2015

Look at the Birding results through eBird, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, for Bonaire's birding species thus far in 2015, and see who has been out birding.

http://ebird.org/ebird/subnational1/AN-BO?yr=cur&changeDate=Set

Neil Hayward undertook an ABA Big Year in 2013, attempting to see more species than any other in a single year in the continental US and Canada. He at least matched the previous high of 748, and potentially exceeded it – pending the acceptance of two other species! Read on for a well-written detaile…

10/09/2014

We see "hunting buddies" almost every dive here in Bonaire, if you know what to look for. I make a point of showing this behavior in my course "Dive with the Naturalist."

Previously, scientists had thought only humans and chimpanzees collaborated in this way, suggesting that teamwork may be more widespread in the animal kingdom than thought.

10/09/2014

This bothers progressives, but not conservatives. Strange but most nature- caring people ( bird watchers) are progressives.

The estimate is based on the 314 bird species, out of 588 studied, that could lose more than half of their current geographic range.

10/09/2014

This is nothing new. Been around for 20 years, at least.

A new study suggests that a mega-tsunami could devastate coastlines from Florida to Brazil following a volcanic eruption in the Canary Islands.

09/09/2014

Awesome links.

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