Birds at Road Pond. Photo courtesy Jacqueline A. Cestero Photography.
ANGUILLA--Some 273 birds of ten different species were seen at Road Salt Pond by the Anguilla National Trust staff and volunteers in the bird count on World Wetlands Day. There were 49 counted at East End Pond, with eight species and just seven yellowlegs seen at Mimi Bay Pond.
The species at Road Bay Pond were 164 black-necked stilts, 89 lesser yellowlegs and five or fewer of snowy egret, green heron, white-cheeked pintail ducks, moorhens, greater yellowlegs, killdeer, spotted sandpipers and ruddy turnstones.
The predominant species at East End Pond was the short-billed dowitcher with 17 birds counted. Other species included the black-necked stilt, the black-bellied plover, lesser yellowlegs, killdeer, semipalmated plover, spotted sandpiper and red-tailed hawk. At Mimi Bay Pond the seven birds seen were lesser yellowlegs.
The volunteers counting the birds included staff from the Anguilla National Trust, residents in the different areas and students from the Albena Lake Hodge Comprehensive School Environmental Club.
