Prince Edward Island National Park is a Canadian national park located on Prince Edward Island. It is located along the north shore of the island fronting the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
Mammals
Prince Edward Island National Park is home to red foxes ranging in colors from red to black. These foxes have white tips on the ends of their tails. They can be seen all over the park.
Snowshoe hares are in abundance in the park. They look brown in the summer and white in the winter. They enjoy feeding on clover and grasses and in the winter on the shoots of newly-planted trees.
Beavers and muskrats live in the wetlands.
Smaller animals can also be seen like red squirrels and Eastern chipmunks.
Marine Mammals
At this coastal national park, there are many marine mammals. Among them are:
Grey, harbor, hooded, and harp seals residing by the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
Among the mammals located in the water are harbor porpoises, Atlantic white-sided dolphins, pilot whales, and minke whales.
These marine mammals can be seen from the shore or from boats on the water.
Birds
Birdwatching is a popular thing to do in Prince Edward Island National Park.
Piping Plovers nest here. They can be seen feeding along the shore in July and August. They're migrating birds and fly south when colder weather approaches.
Great Blue Herons are seen along the shorelines from late March until they depart in late autumn. They can be seen wading in the water with their long, narrow legs. The best places to see them are Brackley and Covehead Bays.
Bald Eagles are year-round residents of the national park. They can be seen soaring overhead or perching in trees as well as on dune tops around Long and Campbells Ponds in Dalvay, Schooner Pond at Greenwich and around the Cavendish area.
Ospreys return to the park yearly to build large nests near bodies of water. You can see their nesting platforms from spring to autumn.
In the waters at Prince Edward Island National Park the following amphibians can be seen:
Northern leopard frogs, green frogs, and wood frogs.
American toads and blue-spotted salamanders, spotted salamanders, and red-backed salamanders.
Smooth green snake, red-bellied snake, and Eastern garter snake.
Fish species
Atlantic tomcods, Atlantic cods, American sand lances, blueback herring, alewives, fourspine sticklebacks, brook trouts, ninespine sticklebacks, rainbow smelts, striped basses, white perch, American eels, threespine sticklebacks, banded killfish, and mummichogs.
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