Английская Википедия:Boatswain Bird Island
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Boatswain Bird Island, also spelt Boatswainbird Island, is a small island some Шаблон:Convert off the east coast of Ascension Island in the South Atlantic Ocean with an area of approximately Шаблон:Convert.Шаблон:Citation needed It is administered from Georgetown on Ascension, which is part of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, an overseas territory of the United Kingdom. Boatswain Bird Island should not be confused with the nearby, much smaller, Boatswain Bird Rock, only about Шаблон:Convert in size, located Шаблон:Convert south-east of the island and Шаблон:Convert north-east of the coast of Ascension. The southern coast of the island has an impressive natural arch.Шаблон:Citation needed
Birds
There are thousands of inhabitants on this tiny island, all of which are birds, which give the island its white colour. Among the many seabirds nesting there are boobies, petrels, noddies, as well as the tropicbirds (boatswain birds) for which the island is named.Шаблон:Citation needed
The island is the home of the majority of Ascension's birds due to rats (accidentally introduced by passing ships) and then cats (introduced to catch the rats, as well as pets) eating the birds and their eggs on Ascension.Шаблон:Citation needed Since the mid-1990s there has been a feral cat eradication program, alongside a rat eradication program, to encourage the birds back to the main island.Шаблон:Citation needed
Important Bird Area
The island has been identified as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International as a breeding site for seabirds. Birds for which the IBA is significant include Madeiran storm petrels (1,500 breeding pairs), red-billed tropicbirds (500 pairs), white-tailed tropicbirds (1,000 pairs), Ascension frigatebirds (6,000 pairs), masked boobies (1,300 pairs) and black noddies (5,000 pairs).[1]
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- Geography of Ascension Island
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- Seabird colonies
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