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Anguilla's beautiful Salt Ponds are
located near the coasts in most
circumstances but a few, especially
in the Eastern half of the island,
are a fair distance inland. They are shallow estuarine
ecosystems of varying sizes. They are the habitat
for a variety of tropical birds and are ideal areas for
bird-watching. The ponds are
typically high in salinity and salt mining in Road Pond, Sandy Ground in
particular once formed the back bone of Anguilla's economy.
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Bird
Watching The ponds are home to several birds,
both migratory and residential. In our nature
pages
you'll find features on Black-necked Stilts, Willets,
Pintail Ducks, Snowy Egrets, Great
Egrets and Herons found on these ponds.
Ponds also serve
a protective role against floods and are a habitat to a
variety of animal and plant life. |
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The
East End pond is one of the two beautiful ponds that
sandwich the village of Pond Ground. About 25% of this pond was inexplicably
filled with earth during the 1980's.
Today the pond has been designated as a protected wetland and is
a location for official bird watching.
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reservoirs in preventing
floods its perhaps not
surprising that the area now
has street flooding with a
tropical downpour and
experienced catastrophic
flooding in 1999 when Hurricane Lenny hit the island. This flood
temporarily displaced residents and swamped surrounding
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Pan West End |
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Stilt Chorus |
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Pond Crabs |
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Meads Cove |
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Long Pond |
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Caul's Pond |
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Bad Cox |
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Rendezvous |
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