Aruba – Caribbean Footprint

Flora Wild flowers - Wilde bloemen

Wild flowers – Sida ciliaris

juli 6, 2025

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Yerba di pinda, a native plant, most people will not look at twice!

Birds - Vogels Fauna

Natural introductions: Southern lapwing

juli 4, 2025

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The Southern Lapwing (Vanellus chilensis) was a bird species that only occasionally visited the islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao and was known as an infrequent visitor from South America. Now it is a breeding bird.

Behaviour - Gedrag Birds - Vogels

Nature in July – Breeding season of plovers

juli 2, 2025

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What happens in nature in the month of July? Some sea and shorebirds are still in the middle of breeding season. Reason for us humans to be careful.

Fauna Insects - Insecten

Young and adult – Monarch butterfly

juni 30, 2025

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There is almost no greater difference between young and adult stages as there is in the taxonomic class of insects. Butterflies are often the most ‘in your face’ example of this fact. Take Monarch butterflies for instance.

Fauna Insects - Insecten

Butterfly species: West Indian Mangrove buckeye

juni 26, 2025

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The West Indian Mangrove buckeye is a jewel amongst the mangrove trees. Using the Black mangrove as a larval plant, it is nonetheless rare.

Behaviour - Gedrag Birds - Vogels

Video snippet: Swimming flamingos

juni 25, 2025

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Have you ever seen a flamingo swimming like a duck. Watch the video and read on for the explanation.

Ecology - Ecologie Flora

Forests on the semi-arid ABC islands (11) – Cacti; special trees

juni 23, 2025

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The most picturesque plant on our islands is simply the cactus, and especially the columnar cactus. On the islands there are three different native columnar cacti that each have their own name on each of the islands. Learn how to differentiate between them.

Flora Wild flowers - Wilde bloemen

Wild flowers – Bourreria succulenta

juni 19, 2025

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A tree that will lose its leaves when the drought keep going on, but is also often the last one to drop all its leaves when it gets to dry.

Birds - Vogels Fauna

Young and adult – Rufous-collared sparrow

juni 17, 2025

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All wildlife has many life phases. This series puts the spotlight on animals in both their young or immature life stage and their adult stage, beginning with the Rufous-collared sparrow.

Fauna Marine environment - Mariene milieu

Shells: Mouse cone

juni 13, 2025

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The family of Conidae or Cone snails as it is called in English contains an enormous variety of genera and species. Meet the Mouse cone.

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