Malportas Pond | |
Location: | Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands |
Coordinates: | 19.3447°N -81.2028°W |
Type: | salt lake |
Pushpin Map: | Cayman Islands |
Pushpin Map Alt: | Location of the lake in the Cayman Islands. |
Malportas Pond is a salt-water pond on the north coast of Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, near North Side village.[1] It has an area of [2] or, and like the nearby Rock and Point ponds, it is an important area for breeding waterfowl.[3] Local farmer Willie Ebanks introduced West Indian whistling-ducks on the pond in 1990, and it also has populations of heron, egrets, moorhens, and coots.[4] It forms part of the Central Mangrove Wetland Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International because it supports populations of waterbirds.[5]