The Vallée de la Biodiversité is home to rich flora and fauna.


Fauna
Several species of wildlife, including a few rare species, can be observed in and around the valley.

On land :

• Beaver
• Black bear
• Moose
• Wolf
• Red fox
• Ruffed grouse
• Spruce grouse
• Lynx
• Eastern cougar
• Snowshoe hare

Under water :

• Atlantic salmon
• Sea-run brook trout
• Beluga
• Common seal

In the sky :

• Bald eagle
• Golden eagle
• Turkey vulture
• Peregrine falcon
• Merlin
• Ring-billed gull
• Northern saw-whet owl
• Barrow's goldeneye
• Several wildfowl species, such as the snow goose and Canada goose

>>> Click here for a more complete list of birds
>>> Click here to see the Tadoussac bird inventory



Flora, a few examples

The large ones :

• White elm
• Black ash
• Yellow birch
• Balsam fir
• Balsam poplar
• Quaking aspen
• Thuja (white cedar)
• Eastern white pine

The not-so-large ones:

• Mountain ash
• Cherry tree
• Filbert bush
• Alder
• Labrador tea

The smaller ones :

• Raspberry bush
• Wintergreen
• Blueberry plant
• Red trillium
• Bunchberry
• China aster
• Blubead lily
• Fern
• Mushrooms
• Mosses and lichens
• Dogwood

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