Dolly's Cay
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Dolly's Cay (23.65°N 77.36°W) is a remote rock on the Great Bahama Bank
Bahama Banks
The Bahama Banks are the submerged carbonate platforms that make up much of the Bahama Archipelago. The term is usually applied in referring to either the Great Bahama Bank around Andros Island, or the Little Bahama Bank of Grand Bahama Island and Great Abaco, which are the largest of the...

 in the series of cay
Cay
A cay , also spelled caye or key, is a small, low-elevation, sandy island formed on the surface of coral reefs. Cays occur in tropical environments throughout the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans , where they provide habitable and agricultural land for hundreds of thousands of people...

s running southeast from Andros Island, and is around 20 km east south east of the southeast tip of Andros. It is part of South Andros
South Andros
South Andros is a district of the nation of The Bahamas. Geographically, South Andros is the southernmost third of the land mass colloquially called Andros, which includes the districts of North Andros, Central Andros and South Andros...

 District.

The cay is used for nesting by Bridled Terns
Bridled Tern
The Bridled Tern is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. It is a bird of the tropical oceans.-Description:...

, Sooty Terns, Sandwich Terns, and Royal Terns
Royal Tern
The Royal Tern is a seabird in the tern family Sternidae. This bird has two distinctive subspecies. T. m. maximus breeds on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the southern USA and Mexico into the Caribbean. The slightly smaller T. m. albididorsalis breeds in coastal west Africa...

, which were last verified by James Parnell in 1998. These birds are monitored as part of the West Indies Seabird Geographic Information System, a database of all contributions from the Seabird Working Group of the Society for the Conservation and Study of Caribbean Birds.
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