Saint Giles Island

{{Short description|Island off the north-east tip of Tobago}} thumb|Saint Giles Island thumb|London Bridge Rock, to the west of Saint Giles Island

'''Saint Giles Island''' is the largest in a group of small islands off the north-eastern tip of Tobago, in the Caribbean country of Trinidad and Tobago.

==Environment== The island is very steep sided and hosts tropical dry forest and wind-swept littoral scrub. At least five species of reptiles have been recorded for the island. One is a snake - Boddaert's tropical racer. The remaining four are lizards - green iguanas, turnip-tailed geckos, eyespot geckos and an unidentified species of skink in the sub-family Mabuyinae.

Saint Giles, along with adjacent rock islets, has been designated an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports significant populations of red-billed tropicbirds, Sargasso Shearwaters and magnificent frigatebirds, as well as red-footed, brown and masked boobies. It is one of the most important seabird breeding islands in the southern Caribbean.<ref name=bli>{{cite web |url= https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/st-giles-islands-iba-trinidad-and-tobago|title= St Giles Islands|author= |date=2024|website= BirdLife Data Zone|publisher= BirdLife International|access-date= 2024-09-15}}</ref>

==See also== * Islands of Trinidad and Tobago

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Category:Islands of Trinidad and Tobago Category:Geography of Tobago Category:Important Bird Areas of Trinidad and Tobago Category:Seabird colonies