Shorebirds

Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve

The tidal pools and coastal areas of the islands of the Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve abounds with marine invertebrates and algae, which attracts a wide variety of shorebirds during their breeding and migration periods.

Semipalmated plover

More than 25 species of large and small shorebirds roam the mud flats, shores and rocky shoals in the spring and summer to feed and gain some weight in preparation for their fall migration. The sandy and pebble beaches of the upper shore are also used by several species to rest and socialize.

Only six species of shorebirds nest in peat bogs, salt marshes, barrens or open boreal forest of the Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve.


Greater yellowlegs

Shorebirds can undertake very long migrations and the Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve has been collaborating for several years in a national program that monitors them during their fall migration. The shorebird populations trends in the park reserve is currently being assessed since the Mingan Archipelago is considered a very important resting and feeding areas during their migration.

Group Nesting Non-nesting
Large cranes

American bittern
Great blue heron

Shorebirds

American woodcock
Common snipe
Spotted sandpiper
Solitary sandpiper
Greater yellowlegs
Killdeer

Hudsonian godwit
White-rumped sandpiper
Red knot
Least sandpiper
Sanderling
Semipalmated sandpiper
Dunlin
Purple sandpiper
Short-billed dowitcher
Whimbrel
Lesser yellowlegs
Red-necked phalarope
Black-bellied plover
Lesser golden-plover
Semipalmated plover
Piping plover
Turnstone

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