Malportas Pond

Malportas Pond is a salt-water pond on the north coast of Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, near North Side village.[1] It has an area of 44[2] or 52[3] hectares, and like the nearby Rock and Point ponds, it is an important area for breeding waterfowl.[3] Local farmer Willie Ebanks introduced West Indian whistling-ducks on the pond in 1990, and it also has populations of heron, egrets, moorhens, and coots.[4] It forms part of the Central Mangrove Wetland Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International because it supports populations of waterbirds.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Rigby, J. Keith; Roberts, Harry H. (1976). Grand Cayman Island: geology, sediments, and marine communities. Brigham Young University, Dept. of Geology. p. 13.
  2. ↑ Wege, David C.; Anadón-Irizarry, Verónica; Vincenty, Mayra (January 2008). Important bird areas in the Caribbean: key sites for conservation. BirdLife International. p. 115. ISBN 978-0-946888-65-8.
  3. 1 2 Scott, Derek A.; Carbonell, Montserrat (1986). A directory of neotropical wetlands. International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. pp. 477–8.
  4. ↑ Hayne, Tricia (2008). Cayman Islands: The Bradt Travel Guide. Bradt Travel Guides. p. 144. ISBN 978-1-84162-214-9.
  5. ↑ "Central Mangrove Wetland". Important Bird Areas factsheet. BirdLife International. 2014. Retrieved 2014-03-31.

Coordinates: 19°20′41″N 81°12′10″W / 19.34472°N 81.20278°W / 19.34472; -81.20278


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