Corossol Island's Bird sanctuary
The islands have long been a bird nesting paradise.
For this reason, and to bird watchers’ pleasure, measures were soon undertaken to protect the islands’ rightful inhabitants and prevent them from abandoning their shores by setting up a bird sanctuary that now encompasses Corossol and Manowin Islands as well as De Quen Islets. Among the islands’ most famous inhabitants, the Razorbill, commonly referred to by locals as The Little Penguin, is particularly fond of the islands’ bountiful waters and comes back yearly to fish and lay.
But this mythic fellow is not the only appreciator of the islands and is therefore found alongside countless other bird species such as murres, eiders, ducks, Atlantic puffins, auks, black guillemots and long-tailed ducks. The archipelago is one of the most important protected marine birds sanctuaries in Eastern Canada.