- Friars Bay (gulls)
- Liberty Point (landbirds, marine mammals, and Bicknell's Thrush in the 1980's)
- Herring Cove (seabirds, songbirds, migrating hawks, and nesting merlin)
- Wilson's Beach Breakwater
- Small gulls, alcids, formerly thousands of Red-necked Phalarope, other gulls,
and Bald Eagle (often perched on islands in Head Harbor Passage;
the orange feet of immature Bald Eagles boldly stand out when distant birds
are sitting on algal-covered rocks on distant islands).
- East Quoddy Head Lighthouse
- All alcids, Northern Gannet, white winged gulls (winter),
small gulls, and fin, minke, and humpback whales.
During fog, whales are frequently heard breathing or blowing.
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Campobello Island, New Brunswick
Campobello Island is another good birding spot in the Quoddy Region.
The Roosevelt-Campobello International Park contains most of the same nesting
warblers as Quoddy Head State Park with higher numbers of Cape May, Mourning, Palm,
Bay-breasted, and Tennessee Warblers plus Northern Waterthrush.
Boreal Chickadee, Gray Jay, and
Black-backed Woodpecker nest here. The park road which passes behind the
Campobello Island Information Center has most of the boreal nesting species in
fairly high densities.
A Bicknell's Thrush responded to playbacks along the road to Fox Farm in 1993.
Liberty Point is interesting in that Bicknell's Thrush and Blackpoll Warbler were confirmed breeding there in the mid 1980's. However, playbacks of Bicknell's Thrush over the last 4 years has not produced Bicknell's at this site. Stop at the visitors center of the Roosevelt-Campobello International Park for a checklist of birds of the park.
Other good birding locations on Campobello Island include:
One should not miss a cruise through the Hear Harbor Passage area. Boats are available from Lubec and Eastport on the U.S. side and from Campobello Island, Deer Island, and St. Andrews on the New Brunswick side. Deer Island Point opposite Eastport is know as the world's second largest whirlpool and is an internationally recognized feeding and staging area for tens of thousands of small gulls in summer and fall and equal numbers of Black-legged Kittiwakes in winter. The best time to view birds and the whirlpool is about 2 1/2 to 2 hours before high tide.