This a follow up to the sighting of a leucistic Rufous-collared sparrow spotted at Playa Porto Marie on Curaçao in June 2026, with photos from island visitor and photographer Andrew Patton who visited the beach and restaurant and managed to capture the bird with his camera.
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Honeybees on Curaçao (with notes on other islands of the former Netherlands Antilles) (1)
Abeha—bees; they appear in the local news all too often, usually in a negative light following an attack with serious consequences for animals or humans. Such reporting often lacks nuance, paying little attention to the bee species itself—the root cause of the news stories—or the reasons why attacks occur in the first place. This is the first article on this series telling the story of the introduction of honeybees on the ABCSSS0islands.