The 1112 ha IBA comprises the largest remnant of Montserrat's native forest. It encompasses the highlands of the northern half of the island from an elevation of 150 m up to the 741 m summit of Katy Hill. The terrain is steep, largely trackless, and riven by the ‘ghauts’, or ravines, that radiate into the islands's northern lowlands. Rainfall increases with altitude, and the vegetation changes from tropical dry forest at the lower elevations, through tropical evergreen forest to elfin forest at the summit. Most of the forest is secondary or regrowth, following historic land clearance for plantation agriculture, and at a variety of successional stages because of damage from frequent hurricanes. Other IBAs on the island are the Northern Forested Ghauts and South Soufriere Hills.[1] The Centre Hills are one of the two extinct volcanoes that preceded the currently active Soufriere Hills.[2]
centre, hills, forest, reserve, island, montserrat, british, overseas, territory, leeward, islands, caribbean, forms, territory, important, bird, areas, ibas, which, encompasses, forest, reserve, well, additional, habitat, montserrat, oriole, territory, endemi. Centre Hills is a forest reserve on the island of Montserrat a British Overseas Territory in the Leeward Islands of the Caribbean Sea It forms one of the territory s Important Bird Areas IBAs which encompasses the forest reserve as well as additional habitat for the Montserrat oriole the territory s endemic and critically endangered national bird 1 Map of Montserrat The IBA is an important site for Montserrat orioles Contents 1 Description 1 1 Birds 2 See also 3 ReferencesDescription editThe 1112 ha IBA comprises the largest remnant of Montserrat s native forest It encompasses the highlands of the northern half of the island from an elevation of 150 m up to the 741 m summit of Katy Hill The terrain is steep largely trackless and riven by the ghauts or ravines that radiate into the islands s northern lowlands Rainfall increases with altitude and the vegetation changes from tropical dry forest at the lower elevations through tropical evergreen forest to elfin forest at the summit Most of the forest is secondary or regrowth following historic land clearance for plantation agriculture and at a variety of successional stages because of damage from frequent hurricanes Other IBAs on the island are the Northern Forested Ghauts and South Soufriere Hills 1 The Centre Hills are one of the two extinct volcanoes that preceded the currently active Soufriere Hills 2 Birds edit The IBA was identified as such by BirdLife International because it supports as well as Montserrat orioles populations of bridled quail doves purple throated caribs green throated caribs Antillean crested hummingbirds Caribbean elaenias scaly breasted thrashers pearly eyed thrashers brown tremblers forest thrushes and Lesser Antillean bullfinches 1 See also editNorthern Forested GhautsReferences edit a b c Centre Hills Important Bird Areas factsheet BirdLife International 2014 Archived from the original on 2007 07 10 Retrieved 2014 04 14 https web archive org web 20110211204212 http www mvo ms en soufriere hills volcano history of the volcano soufriere hills volcano history of the volcano geological history of montserrat island volcanic history of montserrat 16 45 00 N 62 12 22 W 16 75000 N 62 20611 W 16 75000 62 20611 nbsp This Montserrat location article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Centre Hills amp oldid 1192337251, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
