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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
[edit]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.[1]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "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
| Major Islands |  | |
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| Bocas Islands | ||
| The Five Islands | ||
| San Diego Islands | ||
| Selected Islands off Tobago | ||
| Other Islands | ||
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