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Owls Head Provincial Park is an important habitat for native bird species and a refuge for migratory birds.

The coastal headland supports a variety of habitats, including a beach, estuaries, bogs, and salt marshes. CPAWS NS and a team of bird experts recorded over 70 species of birds last summer alone. Owls Head Provincial Park is also mapped in the government’s significant habitat database for nesting piping plovers.

Fauna of Owls Head Provincial Park

If you would like a copy of any of the images, please send an email to lindsaylee@saveowlshead.org.

A list of some of the plant & animal species is also available upon request.

If you would like a copy of any of the images, please send an email to lindsaylee@saveowlshead.org

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Flora of Owls Head Provincial Park

Owls Head Provincial Park is a 705.2-acre property, with over 5 miles of publicly owned shoreline.

As unanimously approved-in-principle by local community representatives in 1975, Owls Head Provincial Park was intended to be part of the “Islands and Headlands” component of the Eastern Shore Seaside Parks System. The area was supposed to be one of the “Natural Environment Parks Proposed as representative examples of the unique coastal landscape.”

The bedrock ridges were formed as the glaciers scraped across the province thousands of years ago. The whole ecosystem, including the coastal broom crowberry plant community, has evolved around these conditions.