At the western end of Anegada, the salt ponds hold a small but photogenic flock of Caribbean flamingos — usually visible from the road or from the edges of the ponds. The flock has been present since the 1990s, when birds were reintroduced after the original population was hunted out. Numbers vary seasonally but a dozen or more birds are usually visible.
In the scrubby limestone terrain around the ponds, the Anegada rock iguana lives its increasingly fragile existence. The iguanas are large — up to a metre long — and surprisingly approachable when they emerge to bask in the morning sun. The best time to see them is early morning, before the heat pushes them into shade. The species exists nowhere else on earth.