Nonsuch Island, Bermuda

It is 5.7 ha (14 acres) in area and is at the east entrance to Castle Harbour, close to the south-easternmost point of Cooper's Island (cojoined with the much larger St David's Island by the construction of Kindley Field by the United States Army during the Second World War).

The restoration of the once barren island into a 'Living Museum of pre-colonial Bermuda' is the lifetime work of now retired Bermudian ornithologist and conservationist David B. Wingate, and part of his effort to bring back from near-extinction the once plentiful endemic nocturnal seabird, and national emblem of Bermuda, the cahow.

Accounts written at the time of Bermuda's settlement leave no doubt that herons and egrets of several species were resident and breeding on the island.

Likewise, William Strachey (in Lefroy 1877), another survivor of the Sea Venture and the official chronicler of the Virginia expedition, wrote of the "white and grey Hernshawes and bittons."

The endemic, and critically endangered Bermuda skink (Plestiodon longirostris), otherwise known as the Bermudian rock lizard, is also known to have a population on Nonsuch Island.