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Puffin Island is a small island in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, in a navigation channel called Baccalieu Tickle and just off the coast of Baccalieu Island. The island is an ecological reserve for its population of Atlantic puffin. The island is inaccessible from the water and provides ideal protection for the breeding colonies of Atlantic ...
Witless Bay is a town on the Avalon Peninsula in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Located on the Irish Loop, 35 km south of the provincial capital, St. John's, Witless Bay is a small, scenic, traditional Newfoundland outport community. The town had a population of 1640 in the Canada 2021 Census. [2]
Pee Pee Island is a small island located in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador in the far east of Canada. [1] It is the smallest of the four islands in the Witless Bay Ecological Reserve, which it became a part of in 1983. It serves as a breeding place for the Atlantic puffin. [2]
The Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador is composed of mainland Labrador and the large island of Newfoundland. ... Puffin: Conception Bay
Witless Bay Ecological Reserve is an ecological preserve close to St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The Witless Bay Ecological Reserve consists of four islands: Gull Island, Green Island, Great Island, and Pee Pee Island. Immense numbers of birds nest on these islands during the seabird breeding season, roughly from 1 April through ...
Pages in category "Islands of Newfoundland and Labrador" ... Pouch Island, Newfoundland and Labrador; Puffin Island (Baccalieu Tickle), Newfoundland and Labrador; Q.
The Reserve contains North America´s largest Atlantic puffin colony. and the world's second-largest colony of Leach's storm-petrels. There are red sandstone cliffs, and views of coves, sea stacks, gulches. [29] In season there are boat trips from Witless Bay and Bay Bulls to view icebergs, whales, and the seabird colonies on the island's ...
The island supports the largest known colony of Leach's storm petrel in the world, approximately 40% of the global population and about 70% of the western Atlantic population of this species. It is a nesting area for 11 breeding species: Atlantic puffin (45,000 pairs – approximately 12% of the eastern North America population) at Puffin Island;