Abaco Forum Newsgroup
Latest News From The Abaconian and Rolling Harbour Abaco
Is this an Abaco forum / newsgroup in the conventional sense? Not quite. We tried providing a classic forum at one point, then experimented with Twitter, but had little success. Running an interactive forum requires time, effort, and most of all, moderators -- something we did not have the resources for. If you are looking for a forum / message board dedicated to the Abacos, we suggest heading over to Abaco's Community Message Board.
This is the news feed for Rolling Harbour Abaco hosted by The Delphi Club. This is an informative and enjoyable blog that covers the birds and other wildlife on Abaco Island.
Rolling Harbour Abaco News
BIRDS, WILDLIFE & MORE ABACO, BAHAMAS
I put together this little booklet ages ago, a composition of photos, science-based material, and amateur text. We used to give them to interested guests at Delphi in exchange for a small wildlife-based contribution. In due course I put together this short video. Tech was quite limited then so the quality isn’t great. If you […]
Posted on 13 November 2023 | 12:06 pm
URCHIN RESEARCHIN’: SEA HEDGEHOGS OF THE REEF The long-spined sea urchin Diadema antillarum featured in this post is one of those creatures that handily offers its USP in its name, so you know what you are dealing with. Something prickly, for a start. These are creatures of the reef, and many places in the […]
Posted on 30 October 2023 | 12:42 pm
ABACO’S 38 WARBLERS: AN ILLUSTRATED ID GUIDE The great winter migration of warblers and their arrival in The Bahamas is underway. Reports are appearing – the latest being the Northern Parula. They will have made long journeys – hundreds of miles – and in the spring they will wing their way home for […]
Posted on 18 October 2023 | 1:33 pm
SOUTHERN STINGRAYS: BAHAMAS REEF FISH (41) Anyone who has scuba-dived or snorkelled around the bright coral reefs of the Bahamas, or hunted bonefish out on the Abaco Marls will have come across Southern Stingrays Dasyatis americana. And there are certain places (eg Manjack Cay) where you can actually feed them – and not come to […]
Posted on 12 October 2023 | 1:08 pm
BRAIN WAVES: UNDERSEA CORAL MAZES & LABYRINTHS The most apposite description of brain coral Diploria labyrinthiformisis is essentially a no-brainer. How could you not call the creatures on this page anything else**. These corals come in wide varieties of shape and colour, and 4 types are found in Caribbean waters. They date from the Jurassic […]
Posted on 4 October 2023 | 3:44 pm
FIERCE LITTLE FALCONS: MERLINS ON ABACO Merlins (Falco columbarius) are fierce small falcons that are fast and agile in flight. On Abaco, they are fairly common winter residents – though finding one and managing to photograph it may take a bit of doing. And maybe a dose of luck. The ‘columbarius‘ part of their taxonomy reflects […]
Posted on 26 September 2023 | 8:34 am
WTF? (WHAT’S THAT FISH): ‘GUITARFISH ROCK’ A spectacular entry in my WTF? series came courtesy of Adam Rees and a night dive in Florida waters: the guitarfish, (Gr: rhinos – nose; batis – ray) . Until I saw Adam’s photos, this creature was unknown to me. It sounded so improbable, and conjured up some nightmare […]
Posted on 24 September 2023 | 1:56 pm
WORLD SHOREBIRDS DAY: ABACO’S COMPLETE CHECKLIST Abaco’s birding records compiled for over 20 years include 33 shorebird species. For a few, the islands and cays are a permanent residence; for many others they are winter quarters; some species are visitors transient in their migrations; a few are rare vagrants. The complete checklist of Abaco’s […]
Posted on 16 September 2023 | 1:36 pm
“CATCHING THE EYE”: OYSTERCATCHERS (+ BONUS ID TIP) I’m focusing (ha!) on oystercatchers and their eyes. Like the extraordinary one in the header image. Notice the bright orangey-red ‘orbital ring’, the egg-yolk-reminiscent eye and the pitch black iris. An eye-catching and unmistakeable feature of this handsome black and white shorebird, the American Oystercatcher. Here’s […]
Posted on 2 September 2023 | 12:18 pm
HUTIAS: ABACO’S EXTINCT RODENTS LIVE ON… ELSEWHERE Note: my original article on the Hutia predates Dorian & a few references may be a bit out of date The Bahama hutia (Geocapromys ingrahami) has the distinction of being the only indigenous land mammal in the Bahamas. Historically found on a number of islands, the species is now […]
Posted on 24 August 2023 | 11:43 am
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