Booby Pond Nature Reserve
| Designations | |
|---|---|
| Official name | Booby Pond and Rookery |
| Designated | 21 September 1994 |
| Reference no. | 702[1] |
Booby Pond Nature Reserve is a protected wetland on Little Cayman, one of the Cayman Islands, a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean Sea.
Description[]
The reserve lies on the south coast of Little Cayman, near the western end of the island. It comprises a 43 ha seasonally flooded hypersaline lagoon with a fringe of mangroves and a strip of dry forest on its northern side. The forest is dominated by Bursera simaruba, Canella winterana, Coccothrinax procterii, Ficus aurea, , Myrcianthus fragrans and Plumeria obtusa, while the mangroves are intermixed with Thespesia populnea and Cordia sebestena var. caymanensis.[2]
Birds[]
The site has been identified by BirdLife International as a 136 ha Important Bird Area (IBA) because it supports populations of West Indian whistling ducks (with 20 breeding pairs), magnificent frigatebirds (with up to 200 breeding pairs), red-footed boobies (with up to 20,000 individuals), white-crowned pigeons, Caribbean elaenias and vitelline warblers. Much of the site is also recognised as a wetland of international importance under the Ramsar Convention.[2]
References[]
- ^ "Booby Pond and Rookery". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
- ^ a b "Booby Pond Nature Reserve". Important Bird Areas factsheet. BirdLife International. 2014. Archived from the original on 2007-07-10. Retrieved 2014-03-29.
Coordinates: 19°39′00″N 80°04′00″W / 19.65000°N 80.06667°W
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