Boatswain Bird Island
Boatswain Bird Island, also spelt Boatswainbird Island, is a small island some off the east coast of Ascension Island in the South Atlantic Ocean with an area of approximately. 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 in size, located south-east of the island and north-east of the coast of Ascension. The southern coast of the island has an impressive natural arch.
Birds
This tiny island has thousands of inhabitants, all birds, which give the island its white colour. Among the many seabirds nesting there are boobies, petrels, noddies, as well as the tropicbirds for which the island is named.The island is home to the majority of Ascension's birds and their nests, which have been decimated by rats and cats. Since the mid-1990s, a feral cat eradication program, alongside a rat eradication program, has been implemented to encourage birds to return to the main island.