Location
Key Information
| 3 km2 | MARINE AREA |
| 3.58 km2 | TOTAL AREA i |
Regulations: Government of Canada
Boundary: Canadian Protected and Conserved Areas Database (Unmodified)
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July 2023
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Purpose
The Saint-Vallier Migratory Bird Sanctuary, located on the south shore of the St. Lawrence Estuary, near the municipality of Saint-Vallier was established in 1986 to protect migrating greater snow geese, Canada geese, and a variety of ducks as well as a large number of shorebirds.
Species of Concern: snow goose, Canada goose
Regulations Summary
Restrictions
The primary purpose of Migratory Bird Sanctuaries is the protection of migratory birds from killing, harm and harassment during a critical part of their life cycle, such as breeding, nesting, moulting, or staging and stopover during their migration. Unless a permit has been issued by the Minister of the Environment authorizing such activity, the Regulations prohibit the following activities in a Migratory Bird Sanctuary:
1. no person shall hunt migratory birds;
2. no person shall disturb, destroy or take the nests of migratory birds;
3. no person shall have in their possession a live migratory bird, or a carcass, skin, nest or egg of a migratory bird (a resident of a Migratory Bird Sanctuary may have in their possession migratory birds lawfully killed outside a Migratory Bird Sanctuary);
4.no person shall have in their possession in a Migratory Bird Sanctuary any firearm; or any hunting appliance except as otherwise provided in these Regulations (does not apply to residents of a Migratory Bird Sanctuary);
5. no person shall permit a dog or cat to run at large in a Migratory Bird Sanctuary;
6. no person shall carry on any activity that is harmful to migratory birds or the eggs, nests or habitat of migratory birds, except under the authority of a permit for those Migratory Bird Sanctuaries on provincial, territorial and federal lands.
Allowed
1. First Nations have a right to access and hunt within the sanctuary.