Cauls Pond
Cauls Pond is a wetland in Anguilla, and one of the territory’s designated 'Important Bird Areas'. The pond is in the east of the island.
Description
Cauls Pond is a rectangular brackish lagoon in the Sandy Hill district, near the south-east coast of the island. The second largest enclosed body of water in Anguilla, it lies beneath sea level and has a relatively large catchment. The substrate is mostly limestone with marl at its western end. It contains a small mudflat island. The vegetation around the edge of the pond consists of cacti and buttonwood mangroves, with other trees and shrubs growing behind them.[1]
Birds
An area of 106 acres around the pond is designated an 'Important Bird Area', encompassing the pond and its immediate surroundings, identified as such by BirdLife International because it supports a breeding colony of least terns as well as populations of brown pelicans, laughing gulls, green-throated caribs, Caribbean elaenias, pearly-eyed thrashers and Lesser Antillean bullfinches.[1]
References
- Location map: 18°13’23"N, 63°1’19"W