The image streams over YouTube in crisp grayscale: a young cahow — known outside Bermuda as the Bermuda petrel — scrambles through a sandy tunnel and pokes its tiny head above the ground for the first time. It’s a few months old, but it has never seen daylight. Gray fluffball hatchlings spend their whole lives up to this moment in a pitch-dark burrow as far as 15 feet underground. Now, in the middle of the night, this little bird flaps and flexes its wings, perches at the edge of a…
Hacking GoPros to help save the Atlantic’s rarest bird
