Aigle-à-Tête-Blanche Ecological Reserve

IUCN Category Ia - Strict Nature Reserve

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The Réserve écologique de l'Aigle -à- Tête Blanche (French for Ecological Reserve Bald Eagle ) is a 2.67 km ² large reserve in the Canadian province of Québec.

These protected areas are not usually open to the public, with the exception of four protected areas, namely Serpentine -de- Coleraine, Forêt- la- Blanche, Tourbières -de- Lanoraie and the Île- Brion.

The reserve is located on the Ottawa at the Rapides -des- Joachims community in the MRC Pontiac. It serves to protect the wintering areas of the eponymous nature of the Bald Eagle. The area is one of the hautes- terres laurentiennes, the fields so that lie above the Laurentian region, which in turn is named after the Saint Lawrence River. The level structure of the small area ranges 110-275 m above sea level. N.N. It is characterized by gneiss, quartz and limestone. During the ice age caused by terraces accompanied river valleys. Partly dominated part of coniferous, deciduous forest, prick Weymouth pine, American red oak, sugar maple and red spruce forth, but also poplars and other tree species occur. Probably the bird of prey has settled here and wintered here, because he can find enough dead fish in the adjacent reservoirs which are killed by the turbines of the power generator.