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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 ...
The Witless Bay reserve contains North America´s largest Atlantic puffin colony. It is estimated that more than 260,000 pairs of Atlantic puffins nest there during the late spring and summer. The reserve also hosts the world's second-largest colony of Leach's storm-petrels. More than 620,000 pairs of these birds come here to nest every year.
Macareux moine. -Atlantic Puffin; Bucephala islandica. -Barrow's Goldeneye. -Garrot d'Islande; The large number of habitats here has provided refuge to many different mammals Castor canadensis. -Castor du Canada -North American Beaver. Lontra canadensis. – Loutre du Canada. -North American river otter; Ondatra zibethicus L. – Rat musqué ...
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is a U.S. national lakeshore in the northwestern Lower Peninsula of Michigan.Located within Benzie and Leelanau counties, the park extends along a 35-mile (56 km) stretch of Lake Michigan's eastern coastline, as well as North and South Manitou islands, preserving a total of 71,199 acres (111 sq mi; 288 km 2).
Whaling in Canada encompasses both aboriginal and commercial whaling, and has existed on all three Canadian oceans, Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic.The indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast have whaling traditions dating back millennia, and the hunting of cetaceans continues by Inuit (mostly beluga and narwhal, but also the subsistence hunting of the bowhead whale).
Portage Point Inn Complex is a resort hotel located at the western end of Portage Lake at Portage Point, Michigan. In October 1985, this 1902 resort hotel and its associated buildings was added to the National Register of Historic Places. [1] It operates today as the Portage Point Resort.
Newfoundland and Labrador lakes larger than 400 km 2 (150 sq mi); Lake Area (including islands) Altitude Depth max. Volume Smallwood Reservoir [1]: 6,527 km 2 (2,520 sq mi)
The Atlantic puffin is the provincial bird of Newfoundland and Labrador.. This is a list of bird species confirmed in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.The Bird Records Committee of Nature Newfoundland & Labrador (Nature NL) lists 427 species as occurring in Newfoundland as of 2021. [1]