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Contents: Location Climate Industry Flora and Fauna Recreation

Flora and Fauna
The Avalon Peninsula hosts a variety of wildlife. People who visit the area often remark on the elk that often line the highways. Caribou, moose and black bears are also common. Vast bird colonies -- including Atlantic puffins, northern gannets and more -- inhabit sea stacks, cliffs and offshore islands, making the peninsula a bird-watchers paradise. Marine wildlife is also plentiful, with herds of harp and hooded seals sunbathing on offshore rocks and whales feeding in coastal waters throughout the summer. A large portion of Newfoundland is forested, mainly with conifers like black spruce and balsam fir. Deciduous trees, such as paper and yellow birches are also common. Erosion along the coastal regions has created barrens which include smaller, woody shrubs and plants.4

Black bear

Harp seals

Links
Welcome to Newfoundland and Labrador (www.nfld.com)
Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism (www.gov.nf.ca/tourism)
TransCanada Highway (www.transcanadahighway.com/newfoundland/map.htm)
Newfoundland and Labrador (www.newfoundland-labrador.com)
Atlantic Canada Cycling (www.atl-canadacycling.com)
Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism (www.wordplay.com/)
City of St. John's Homepage (www.city.st-johns.nf.ca)
K. Bruce Lane Photography (www.lanephotography.com/index.htm)

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