SEABIRDS OF GREAT ISAAC CAY, THE BAHAMAS

摘要

Seabirds nesting in the northern Bahamas have, until recently, been poorly known, despite the nearness of the islands to Florida and visits by large numbers boaters and others. Pelagic terns appear regularly off Florida, on the western edge of the Florida Current but do not nest in North America, other than on the Dry Tortugas off the ex-treme southwestern tip of Florida. Several nesting sites of seabirds have been found along the eastern edge of the Florida Current, in The Bahamas, mostly on small cays (is-lands) south of Bimini (Kushlan and Steinkamp 2007). The present paper documents the existence of an additional, relatively large and regionally significant, seabird colony site at Great Isaac Cay.