Video snippet: Atlantic Ghost Crab munching

Food choices of wildlife can be very diverse. Some species are very specific, only eating a certain type of food, making them specialists in searching for and capturing their food.…

Shells: Mouse cone

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.

Shells: White Hoof Shell

One of the most fun shells to look for during treasure hunts is what we lovably call the Smurf hats, because of the shape and color of the shells.

Shells: Zebra Nerite

This small shell called the Zebra Nerite does not grow larger than 11 millimetres in diameter and is not always easy to find on the coasts of our islands

Shells: Spiny oysters

Of course, you can also find shells of bivalves such as oysters on the beaches in the ABC-islands. And one of the families you can encounter is the genus of the Spiny Oysters.

Forests on the semi-arid ABC islands (2) – Wet forests

The most striking ‘wet’ forests in the world, but still somewhat the ‘underdogs’ of the forests as a whole, are the mangrove forests, the only forests that can grow and flourish in and near salt water.
Mangrove forests were the neglected child, forgotten by many despite major information campaigns by nature organisations over the years.

Getting rid of the pellet

Many birds regurgitate remains of their prey as there are usually some parts that are not digestible. We captures this Yellow-crowned Night Heron doing exactly that.

Shells: Atlantic dove snail

A common shell found on beaches on the islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao.

Birds: the Green Heron

Wherever there is a body of water, there is a good chance that a Green Heron is somewhere nearby.

Blue-legged hermit crabs

There are several species of hermit crabs and one of them is the blue-legged hermit crab, an animal that can be found in shallow water in various parts of the Caribbean Sea and therefore also on our island.

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