The Yellow-crowned Night Heron (Nyctanassa violacea) is one of 2 species of night herons living and breeding on the islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao.
While snorkelling in the clear sea of the ABC Islands, if you’re lucky, you might encounter several parrotfish species underwater. One of these is the so-called Stoplight Parrotfish (Sparisoma viride).
The Papiamentu/o word uña means nail, and when this word is imbedded in the local name for a plant you can be sure there is some spiny element to the plant that can be nasty.
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.…
Besides butterflies and moths, numerous other insect species can be found on the islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao, many of which have not yet been described and identified. Such as the Sourbush seed fly
The Hilu di Diabel is very easy to recognize. If you see a bush along the side of the road that is covered with long orange-yellow tentacle-like threads, then you have located a specimen of Dodder