UPDATE January 7th, 2024: Our Cam1 female returned just before midnight on the 6th and promptly laid her single egg within an hour at 00:05 am on the 7th!

UPDATE #2 Jan 26th, 2024: The “new” CahowCam2 female returned and laid her egg, after the loss of the original female from that nest this past fall. Watch the LiveStreams below.

UPDATE #3 Feb 23rd, 2024: The egg in the CahowCam1 burrow has started to “pip”, and if all goes well it should hatch in the next few days…. Watch the LiveStreams below.

This is the homepage for the LIVE-streaming “CahowCams” (link to Cam1 or Cam2) broadcasting from underground nesting burrows of the Bermuda Petrel or "Cahow". They are an IUCN Red Listed, “critically endangered” Lazarus Species, one of the rarest seabirds on the planet that nest only on Nonsuch Island and a few outer rocks in Bermuda. Thought extinct for 300+ years, 17 pairs were re-discovered in the 1950's, since when thanks to a long-term management plan and a more recent very successful translocation project they are back up to 185+ pairs. In the most recent 2022/2023 nesting season (the season starts in November of one year and extends to June in the following year) there were 156 eggs laid (1 per pair, per year) from which 76+ chicks successfully fledged.

2023/24 is the 11th Season that LookBermuda’s Nonsuch Expeditions custom-built “CahowCam” infrared camera systems stream LIVE video from the underground nesting burrows, from Colony “A” on Nonsuch Island in Bermuda; from which over the past few years, over 50 million minutes of footage have been watched by scientists, students, and followers from around the World, now in collaboration with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

The current 2023/24 Nesting Season officially started in mid October, (earlier and earlier each year as it used to start in November) of 2023, when the Cahow pairs returned to their burrows for a month of nest building, courtship and mating. They then headed back to sea for December to feed, and the females will return back in early January 2024 to lay their single egg. If successful, the eggs have been hatching since late February / beginning of March and the chicks then fledge late May /early June, all of which can be followed here. You may also view highlights of the prior nesting seasons further down this page.

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CahowCam 1 LiveStream

UPDATE October 18th 2023: One of our star pair has returned to find a land crab cleaning out its burrow.

UPDATE October 21st 2023: Its mate has now returned officially starting the 2023/24 CahowCam season

UPDATE January 7th 2024: Our Cam1 female returned just before midnight on the 6th and promptly laid her single egg within an hour at 00:05 am on the 7th

UPDATE #3 Feb 23rd, 2024: The egg in the CahowCam1 burrow has started to “pip”, and if all goes well it should hatch in the next few days….

UPDATE #4 Feb 26th, 2024 @ 3:42pm: The chick, still inside the egg, can now be heard peeping, indicating that the final hatching process is underway…

UPDATE #5 Feb 27th, 2024 @ 12:45pm: The chick has fully hatched! Watch the LiveStream above and the replays below.

ARCHIVE > CahowCam 1 prior Nesting Season Highlights

ARCHIVE January 8th 2023 @3:15am: The female has now returned and then as predicted by Jeremy, supported by a decade of CahowCam observations, exactly an hour later she laid her single egg! Watch the Archive Replay

ARCHIVE Feb 26th 2022: The hatching process is well underway! First pip was seen @ 2:32 am, three pips @ 3:24 am, a large pip at 4:12 am, then peeping from inside the egg is heard @5:51am, followed by subsequent reveals throughout the day. Then 24 hours from the first pip, our chic hatched!

ARCHIVE CahowCam 1 2022 fledging highlights seen below.

CahowCam 2

The pair from the CahowCam 2, was one of the most successful pairs in the Colony and amongst the latest to return, lay their egg, and for their chick to fledge. This past fall, however, the male returned on Nov 2nd, but his mate did not, then a younger female joined him on the 9th, which he at first resisted but then seemed to accept.

UPDATE Jan 26th, 2024: The “new” CahowCam2 female finally returned and laid her egg (3 weeks late), read blog post.

UPDATE March 28th 2024: We are sad to say that the CahowCam2 egg has failed this season. While this is not unexpected for a ”new” pair, it is nonetheless disappointing as we all had our hopes up…