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Island off the north-east tip of Tobago
Saint Giles Island
London Bridge Rock, to the west of Saint Giles Island

Saint Giles Island is the largest in a group of small islands off the north-eastern tip of Tobago, in the Caribbean country of Trinidad and Tobago.

Environment

The island is very steep sided and hosts tropical dry forest and wind-swept littoral scrub. At least five species of reptiles have been recorded for the island. One is a snake - Boddaert's tropical racer. The remaining four are lizards - green iguanas, turnip-tailed geckos, eyespot geckos and an unidentified species of skink in the sub-family Mabuyinae.

Saint Giles, along with adjacent rock islets, has been designated an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports significant populations of red-billed tropicbirds, Audubon's Shearwaters and magnificent frigatebirds, as well as red-footed, brown and masked boobies. It is one of the most important seabird breeding islands in the southern Caribbean.

See also

References

  1. "St Giles Islands". BirdLife Data Zone. BirdLife International. 2024. Retrieved 2024-09-15.

11°21′N 60°31′W / 11.350°N 60.517°W / 11.350; -60.517

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