Malportas Pond
Malportas Pond is a salt-water pond on the north coast of Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, near North Side village. It has an area of 44 hectares (110 acres) or 52 hectares (130 acres), and like the nearby Rock and Point ponds, it is an important area for breeding waterfowl. 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. It forms part of the Central Mangrove Wetland Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International because it supports populations of waterbirds.
References
- ^ Rigby, J. Keith; Roberts, Harry H. (1976). Grand Cayman Island: geology, sediments, and marine communities. Brigham Young University, Dept. of Geology. p. 13.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Scott, Derek A.; Carbonell, Montserrat (1986). A directory of neotropical wetlands. International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. pp. 477–8. ISBN 9782880325046.
- ^ Hayne, Tricia (2008). Cayman Islands: The Bradt Travel Guide. Bradt Travel Guides. p. 144. ISBN 978-1-84162-214-9.
- ^ "Central Mangrove Wetland". Important Bird Areas factsheet. BirdLife International. 2014. Retrieved 2014-03-31.
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