Booby Pond Nature Reserve is a protected wetland on Little Cayman, one of the Cayman Islands, a British Overseas Territories, 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 lake, hypersaline lagoon with a fringe of mangroves and a strip of Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests, dry forest on its northern side. The forest is dominated by ''Bursera simaruba'', ''Canella winterana'', ''Coccothrinax proctorii, Coccothrinax procterii'', ''Ficus aurea'', ''Guipera discolour'', ''Myrcianthes fragrans, Myrcianthus fragrans'' and ''Plumeria obtusa'', while the mangroves are intermixed with ''Thespesia populnea'' and ''Cordia sebestena'' var. ''caymanensis''.

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 booby, 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.

References

Little Cayman Important Bird Areas of the Cayman Islands Ramsar sites in the Cayman Islands Saline lakes of North America Seabird colonies {{Caymans-geo-stub