WITLESS BAY ECOLOGICAL RESERVE

'Witless Bay Ecological Reserve' is an ecological preserve close to St. John's, Newfoundland.
The Witless Bay Ecological Reserve consists of four islands: Gull Island, Green Island, Great Island, and Pee Pee Island. These four islands have immense numbers of nesting birds during the seabird breeding season, roughly from April 1st through September 1st.
The Witless Bay reserve contains North America´s largest Atlantic puffin colony. It is estimated that more than 260,000 pairs of Atlantic puffins nest here during the late spring and summer.
Also, Witless Bay Ecological Reserve has the world's second-largest colony of Leach's storm-petrels. More than 620,000 pairs of these birds come here to nest every year.
In addition, the nesting season sees the arrival of thousands of black-legged kittiwakes and common murres.
Currently the Witless Bay Ecological Reserve hosts a tourism information center, by the Lower Pond in Witless Bay. There are three students employed there currently they are: Shane Healey, Terry Ryan and Stefan Carew.

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