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The black-capped chickadee is the provincial bird of New Brunswick New Brunswick is a Maritime province within Canada, bordered by Quebec to the north, Nova Scotia to the east, the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the northeast, the Bay of Fundy to the southeast, and the U.S. state of Maine to the west. Lying within the Appalachian Mountain range, the province is largely covered by temperate broadleaf ...
English: Atlantic Puffin - Fratercula arctica, Machias Seal Island, New Brunswick. Date: 25 May 2009, 14:31:23: ... List of birds of New Brunswick; Global file usage.
Machias Seal Island is an island in disputed water between the Gulf of Maine and the Bay of Fundy, about 8.6 nmi (16 km) southeast from Cutler, Maine, and 10 nmi (19 km) southwest of Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick.
The Atlantic puffin, which feeds on small fish such as herring and hake, is listed as a vulnerable species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The birds can grow nearly a foot ...
The English name "puffin" – puffed in the sense of swollen – was originally applied to the fatty, salted meat of young birds of the unrelated Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus), formerly known as the "Manks puffin". [2] Puffin is an Anglo-Norman word (Middle English pophyn or poffin) for the cured carcasses of nestling Manx shearwaters. [3]
The new hybrid likely came from breeding between two subspecies within the past 100 years, which scientists said coincides with the warming pattern. New puffin species evolved because of climate ...
The Brothers refers to a group of three small islands in the mouth of the Kennebecasis River, just north from Millidgeville in Saint John, New Brunswick.Also known as The Brothers Islands Indian Reserve #18, the islands, individually known as Indian Island, Goat Island and Burnt Island, [1] [2] were a Wolastoqiyik reserve when they were returned the islands in the 1830s. [3]
Kouchibouguac National Park (/ k uː ʃ ɪ b uː ˈ ɡ w ɑː /) [2] is a national park located on the east coast of New Brunswick in Kouchibouguac and was established in 1969 to preserve a section of the Canadian Maritime Plain region. [3] The park includes barrier islands, sand dunes, lagoons, salt marshes, and forests.