ZICO des Îles-aux-Perroquets - Îles-aux-Perroquets, Québec - Birdwatching Locations on Waymarking.com

“ZICO des Îles-aux-Perroquets” is the official name of this 20-square-kilometre Important Bird Area (IBA). Boasting world-renowned common tern and Arctic tern populations, this area encompasses not only Île aux Perroquets but also Île de la Maison, Île du Wreck (i.e., both the northern (Caye Noire) and southern islands), as well as the foreshore and marine waters falling within a 2-kilometre radius. This IBA is home to the largest concentration of terns in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

This IBA is the site of a ring-billed gull colony whose population has quadrupled in the Mingan Archipelago as it has throughout Quebec since the 1970s. It is also home to other colonies of seabirds including the Atlantic puffin, the razorbill, the black guillemot and the black-legged kittiwake.

Île aux Perroquets is ideal for watching the flocks of seabirds that have flown here to breed. This rocky platform is home not only to the common puffin but also to the razorbill (alca torda), the black guillemot (cepphus grylle), the black-legged kittiwake (rissa tridactyla) and the common raven (corvus corax). For the most part, these species nest in the island’s cliffs and scree. The common eider (somateria mollissima) and a few gull species make their home there too. The Île aux Perroquets sector is a part of the Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve of Canada and was designated as an Important Bird Area (IBA).


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La ZICO des Îles-aux-Perroquets, c’est le nom officiel de cette zone importante pour la conservation des oiseaux (ZICO), est d’une superficie de 20 km2. Mondialement reconnue pour ses populations de sternes pierregarin et de sternes arctique, elle comprend, outre l’île aux Perroquets, l’île de la Maison, les îles de Wreck nord et sud et la caye Noire, de même que les estrans et une surface marine d’un rayon de deux kilomètres. La ZICO accueille la plus grande concentration de sternes du golfe du Saint-Laurent.

Cette ZICO abrite aussi une colonie de goélands à bec cerclé, dont la population a quadruplé depuis les années 1970 dans l’archipel de Mingan comme dans l’ensemble du Québec. Elle abrite également d’autres colonies d’oiseaux marins : macareux moine, petit pingouin, guillemot à miroir, mouette tridactyle.

Park Name: Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve // Réserve de parc national de l'Archipel-de-Mingan Sponsoring Organization: Parks Canada Handicap Accessible?: No Website: [Web Link] Parking Coordinates: N 50° 16.056 W 064° 08.409 Entrance Fee: Not Listed List any Hides, Birding Towers, or other structures to assist in Birdwatching found at the location: Not listed

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