Boatswain Bird Island is an island off the east coast of Ascension Island in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is administered from Georgetown on Ascension, which, together with Tristan da Cunha, is a dependency of Saint Helena. Saint Helena is an overseas territory of the United Kingdom. Anthem: God Save the Queen Capital Georgetown Largest city Georgetown Official languages English Government Dependency of St. ... Georgetown is the capital of Ascension Island on the west coast of the island. ... Motto Our faith is our strength Anthem God Save the Queen Capital (and largest city) Edinburgh of the Seven Seas Official languages English Government Dependency of St. ... A United Kingdom overseas territory (formerly known as a dependent territory or earlier as a crown colony) is a territory that is under the sovereignty and formal control of the United Kingdom but is not part of the United Kingdom proper ( Great Britain and Northern Ireland). ...

There are thousands of inhabitants on this tiny island, all of which are birds, which give the island its white colour. Amongst the many species of birds living there are Sooty tern (or Wideawake birds due to a distinctive cry that sounds like they are saying 'wideawake'), boobies, petrels, noddies, Ascension Frigate birds and Boatswain birds. Binomial name Sterna fuscata Linnaeus, 1766 The Sooty Tern, Sterna fuscata, is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. ... Boobies can mean: The plural of Booby, a type of seabird. ... This article is about petrel seabirds. ... Binomial name (Linnaeus, 1758) The Ascension Frigatebird (Fregata aquila) breeds only on the tiny Boatswainbird Island near Ascension Island in the tropical Atlantic Ocean. ... Binomial name Linnaeus, 1758 The Red-billed Tropicbird, Phaethon aethereus, also known as the Boatswain Bird is a tropicbird, one of three closely related seabirds of tropical oceans. ...

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 the main island. Since the mid 1990s there has been a feral cat eradication program, along side a rat eradication program, to encourage the birds back onto the Ascension mainland. The importnace of this program is to maintain the numbers of some of the birds unique to Ascension, such as the Ascension Frigate birds and the Boatswain birds.

The south shore of the island has an impressive natural arch. Rainbow Bridge was formed by a meandering watercourse. ...