Birds Of The UK Overseas Territories

About this book

Based on a series of articles in the journal British Birds, this book highlights the international importance of the UK’s 14 Overseas Territories for birds and other wildlife.

Many of these places are small islands dispersed mostly across the Atlantic, Antarctic and Pacific Oceans, where they are home to a quarter of the world’s penguins and a third of the word’s breeding albatrosses, as well as 34 species that are globally threatened.

With a foreword by RSPB President, Miranda Krestovnikoff, Birds of the UK Overseas Territories will be a ‘must have’ for anyone interested in international conservation or wanting to visit some of these jewels in the UK’s natural history crown.

Contents

Foreword   6
Acknowledgements   6
Introduction   7
The Importance of the UK Overseas Territories for Wildlife   8

1. Akrotiri Peninsula-Episkopi Cliffs IBA, Cyrpus   13
2. Anguilla   23
3. Ascension Island   42
4. Bermuda   63
5. British Antarctic Territory   82
6. British Indian Ocean Territory   108
7. British Virgin Islands   128
8. Cayman Islands   140
9. Falkland Islands   161
10. Gibraltar   186
11. Henderson Island  201
12. Montserrat   217
13. St Helena   234
14. South Georgia   249
15.Tristan da Cunha and Cough Island   277
16. Turks and Caicos Islands   296

References   314
Index   327