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See our "Season Report" pages (from the menu bar to the left) for bird news from other seasons We now have some new photo galleries from the summer of 2006 featuring birds. Click here for photos!       Take a look at our "Plans for 2007" page here Where there are whales there is food and where there is food there are birds! The waters around Grand Manan Island abound with birds of many species and we are fortunate enough to see many birds during our tours to see the whales. While this tour is primarily a whale watching tour we offer special sensitivity to those interested in the many birds that feed and live in the same areas as the great whales of the Bay of Fundy. Some of the species that we are privileged to see include the following: greater shearwater; sooty shearwater; Manx shearwater; northern fulmar; Wilson's storm-petrel; Leach's storm-petrel; northern gannet; red phalaropes; red-necked phalarope; Atlantic puffin; razorbill; common murre; thick-billed murre; black guillemot; dovekie; great skua (rare); Pomarine jaeger; parasitic jaeger; black-legged kittiwake; common tern; arctic tern; common eider; great cormorant; double-crested cormorant; common loon; and bald eagle. Other species are also possible. See our "What's Planned" page for some special bird tours that we are planning for the coming season. Note that special charters for birdwatching or other activities are available for your group, so give us a call or e-mail if you have a need in this area. Some time should be set aside to experience the great land-based bird watching offered on Grand Manan and White Head Islands, especially in spring and fall. For more information on birding on the Islands go the the Grand Manan Tourism web site - "birding" page here, or view the whole Grand Manan web site here. Another good source of information and an interesting site is the "Grand Manan Whale and Seabird Research Station". Bowdoin College operates a research site on Kent Island, one of the uninhabited "out Islands" of the archipelago. See the list of birds identified on this island.

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