The Township of Alfred and Plantagenet and the Prescott -Russell Stewardship Council are developping an eco-tourist project emphasizing the natural inheritance of the  Alfred region.  

Prescott-Russell Stewardship : www.easternontariostewardship.org/prescott-russell

Alfred Birding Trail - Connecting Waterfowl land People!

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Our organizations intend to emphasize this natural triangle via the Alfred Birding Trail , who would include:  

The Alfred Lagoons are two 20-acre ponds (8 ha.) created for the purpose of collecting and then transforming wastewater thanks to the combined effects of the sun, water and plant-life found here. 

Lagoons, like the ones in Alfred, are found all over Ontario, but very few have as much to offer as those in Alfred.

The Alfred Lagoons provide habitat for more than one hundred species of mostly aquatic birds; many nest here while others, in large numbers, visit in the spring and the fall. 

Many nesting records and observations of provincially or nationally rare or significant birds have been documented at the lagoons, of which five are considered vulnerable by the "Bird Studies Canada" : Aythya Americana, Ruddy Duck, American Coot, Wilson's Phalarope and the Black Tern.  The Peregrine Falcon, a breed in danger of disappearance, has been seen at the lagoons. 

This highly publicized location has earned a favorable reputation amongst bird enthusiasts who are well aware that any time spent at the Alfred Lagoons promises to be filled with pleasant surprises and quality observations.

Alfred Lagoons Bird Checklist (PDF, 63 KB)

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Pedestrian excursion on a wood pavement in an important wet surroundings, a significant provincial marsh which is indicated like “sector of normal and scientific interest” which extends on the surface of approximately 10, 600 acres, the vastest in the South of Ontario.  

The peat bog is a peat marsh, which is the largest and of the highest quality of its kind in Ontario.

An arched peat marsh which was built during 10.000 years, it shelters hundreds of known vascular  plants, about twenty types of moss, tenth kinds of mammals, a hundred species of birds, Amphibians, butterflies and of a stream of insects.  It is the most sensitive and most beautiful habitat , a small piece of boreal forest.

One finds there's a particular populations of rare or endangered species, part of national importance. The examples include the fairy-like  marsh butterfly; the dragonfly of Fletcher; white fringée orchis; Atlantic Carex, and a Rhodora.  

The marsh of Alfred is also at the home of a single unique population of mooses in Eastern Ontario.

Alfred Bog Bird Checklist (PDF, 63 KB)

For more information on the Alfred Bog see: www.ofnc.ca/conservation/alfredbog