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Quiet moment under the morning light
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Cycling in the stunning landscapes of the archipelago
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Freshness from the sea to your plate
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Hiking on the Big Hill, Entry Island
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Cliffs of the Dune du Sud beach
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Artists and craftsmen open the doors of their workshop
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Wonderful playground for wind and sliding sports
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The "buttes pelées" at sunset, Havre-aux-Maisons
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Ornithology
Species list
The Club d'ornithologie des Îles has put out an annotated list of birds with information on their status and the best observation times.
| Loons: | Red-throated Loon Common Loon |
Pacific Loon |
| Grebes: | Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe |
Red-necked Grebe |
| Fulmars and Shearwaters: | Northern Fulmar Cory's Shearwater Greater Shearwater |
Sooty Shearwater Manx Shearwater |
| Petrels: | Wilson's Storm Petrel | Leach's Storm Petrel |
| Pelicans: | Brown Pelican | |
| Gannets: | Northern Gannet | |
| Cormorants: | Great Cormorant | Double-crested Cormorant |
| Herons and bitterns: | Northern Bittern Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Little Blue Heron |
Tricolored Heron Cattle Egret Green Heron Black-crowned night Heron Yellow-crowned night Heron |
| Ibis: | Glossy Ibis | White Ibis |
| Geese, swans and ducks: | Chilian Flamingo Greater White-fronted Goose Snow Goose Brant Canada Goose Garganey Wood Duck Green-winged Teal Green-winged Teal (Anas crecca-crecca) American Black Duck Mallard Northern Pintail Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Gadwall Eurasian Wigeon American Wigeon Canvasback Redhead Ring-necked Duck |
Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Common Eider King Eider Harlequin Duck Long-tailed Duck Black Scoter Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Common Goldoneye Barrow's Goldoneye Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Ruddy Duck |
| Vultures: | Turkey Vulture | |
| Eagles and Hawks: | Osprey Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk |
Northern Goshawk Broad-winged Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Rough-legged Hawk |
| Falcons: | American Kestrel Merlin |
Peregrine Falcon Gyrfalcon |
| Grouse: | Spruce Grouse | |
| Pheasants and partridges: | Ring-necked Pheasant | Chukar |
| Rails, moorhens ans coots: | Yellow Rail Virginia Rail Sora |
Common Moorhen Purple Gallinule American Coot |
| Cranes: | Sandhill Crane | Wood Stork |
| Oystercatchers and avocets: | American Oystercatcher American Avocet |
Black-necked Stint |
| Plovers and turndtones: | Black-bellied Plover American Golden Plover Semipalmated Plover |
Piping Plover Kildeer Ruddy Turnstone |
| Sandpippers and Yellowlegs: | Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Willet Spoted Sandpiper Winbrel Long-billed Curlew Hudsonian Godwit Marbled Godwit Red Knot Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Least Sandpiper |
White-rumped Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Purple Sandpiper Dunlin Upland Sandpiper Buff-breasted Sandpiper Ruff Short-billed Dowitcher Long-billed Dowitcher Rufous-necked Stint Curlew Sandpiper Common snipe American Woodcock |
| Phalaropes: | Wilson's Phalarope Red-necked Phalarope |
Red Phalarope |
| Jaegers ans Skuas: | Pomarine Jaeger Parasitic Jaeger |
Long-tailed Jaeger Great Skua |
| Gulls and terns: | Laughing Gull Franklin's Gull Little Gull Black-headed Gull Bonaparte's Gull Mew Gull Ring-billed Gul Herring Gull Iceland Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Glaucous Gull |
Great Black-backed Gull Black-legged Kittiwake Sabine's Gull Caspian Tern Sandwich Tern Roseate Tern Common Tern Arctic Tern Black Tern Gull-billed Tern |
| Razorbills and Guillemots: | Dovekie Common Murre Thick-billed Murre |
Razorbill Black Guillemot Atlantic Puffin |
| Doves: | Rock Dove Mourning Dove |
White-winged Dove |
| Cuckoos: | Black-billed Cuckoo | Yellow-billed Cuckoo |
| Owls: | Eastern Screech-Owl Snowy Owl Northern Hawk-Owl Barred Owl |
Long-eared Owl Short-eared Owl Boreal Owl Northern Saw-whet Owl |
| Nighthawks: | Common Nighthaw | |
| Swifts: | Chimney Swift | |
| Hummingbirds: | Ruby-throated Hummingbird | |
| Kingfishers: | Belted Kingfisher | |
| Woodpeckers: | Red-headed Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downey Woodpecker |
Hairy Woodpecker Three-toed Woodpecker Black-backed Woodpecker Northern Flicker |
| Flycatchers and Kingbirds: | Olive-sided Flycatcher Eastern Wood-Pewee Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Alder Flycatcher Willow Flycatcher |
Least Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Western Kingbird Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird |
| Larks: | Horned Lark | |
| Swallows: | Purple Martin Tree Swallow Bank Swallow |
Cliff Swallow Barn Swallow |
| Crows ans jays: | American Crow Common Raven |
Blue Jay Gray Jay |
| Chickadees: | Blacked-capped Chickadee/td> | Boreal Chickadee |
| Nuthatches: | Red-breasted Nuthatch | White-breasted Nuthatch |
| Creepers: | Brown Creeper | |
| Wrens: | Carolina Wren Winter Wren |
Marsh Wren |
| Gnatcatchers and Kinglets: | Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Golden-crowned Kinglet |
Ruby-crowned Kinglet |
| Thrashers: | Gray Catbird Norther Mockingbird |
Brown Thrasher |
| Thrushes, Robins: | Northern Wheatear Townsend's Solitaire Eastern Bluebird Mountain Bluebird Veery |
Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush American Robin |
| Pipits: | American Pipit | |
| Shrikes: | Northern Shrike | Loggerhead Shrike |
| Waxwings: | Bohemian Waxwing | Cedar Waxwing |
| Starling: | European Starling | |
| Vireos: | Solitary Vireo Warbling Vireo |
Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo |
| Warblers: | Golden-winged Warbler Tennessee Warbler Orange-crowned Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated GreenWarbler Yellow-throated Warbler Pine Warbler Palm Warbler |
Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Prothonotary Warbler Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Louisiana Waterthrush Connecticut Warbler Mourning Warbler Common Yellowthroat Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Prairie Warbler |
| Tanager: | Summer Tanager Scarlet Tanager |
Western Tanager |
| Grosbeaks, Cardinals and Sparrow: | Evening Grosbeak Red Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Blue Grosbeak Dickcissel Rufous-sided Towhee American Tree Sparrow Chipping Sparrow Fiel Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Lark Sparrow Lark bunting Savannah Sparrow Nelson's sharp-tailed Sparrow Fox Sparrow Soung Sparrow Lincoln Sparrow Swamp Sparrow |
White-throated Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Harris' Sparrow Clay-colored Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Lapland Longspur Snow bunting Red Crossbill White-winged Crossbill Common Redpoll Hoary Redpoll House Finch Pine Grosbeak American Goldfinch Pine Siskin House Sparrow |
| Blackbirds, Grackles and Orioles: | Red-Winged Blackbird Yellow-headed Blackbird Brown-headed Cowbird Rusty Blackbird |
Common Grackle Bobolink Eastern Meadowlark Northern Oriole |
| Sparrow: | House Sparrow |
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