The uninhabited Malgas Island, or Bird Island, off the Western Cape of South Africa, is the largest breeding colony in the world of what?
Malgas Island BirdLife International. Therefore, only select researchers will be allowed to go ashore. The Cape gannets have been studied intensely, and their breeding success is watched over by Honorary Rangers. Malgas Island Malgas Island is a small, , uninhabited island lying in the northern part of the entrance to Saldanha Bay, in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It lies about from the mainland in the Benguela upwelling system. It is circular in shape and flat, with the highest point about above sea level. It is known for its large breeding colony of Cape gannets. Malgas was subject to guano
Malgas Island has been part of the West Coast National Park. Most of the central part of the island is occupied by the Cape gannet colony, one of only six in the world, and which, with some 20,000 breeding pairs, holds 25% of the world population. Other breeding seabirds include bank and Cape cormorants, kelp and Hartlaub's gulls, and African penguins. African black oystercatchers are also resident. in addition you will find Antarctic Swifts resting on the ladder of the jetty. The island forms part of the West Coast National Park and Saldanha Bay Islands Important Bird Area, identified as such by