
Spittal Pond
- Country:United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Overseas territories)
- Site number:984
- Area:10 ha
- Designation date:11-05-1999
- Coordinates:32°18'N 64°43'W
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Overview
Spittal Pond. 11/05/99; Bermuda; 10 ha; 32°18'N 064°43'W. Nature Reserve. The only Bermuda example of a non-tidal permanent shallow brackish lagoon with fringing mudflats and salt marshes, subject to periodic sea flooding with mudflats exposed at low water levels. Bermuda's most important wetland for wintering waterfowl (Egretta caerulea, Podilymbus podiceps, Anas rubripes) and shorebirds (Tringa Limnodromus). Ramsar site no. 984. Most recent RIS information: 1999.
Administrative region:
Bermuda Island
- National legal designation:
- nature reserve
- Last publication date:11-05-1999