Prince Edward Island is the smallest Canadian Province nestled north of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Northumberland Strait separates it from the mainland. It is made up of about 1.4 million acres (2,195 square miles or 5,685 square km), which includes more than 200 tiny islands. The capital is Charlottetown.
The entire Province falls into the Atlantic Maritime Ecozone. This region's climate is moderated by the Atlantic Ocean giving it higher precipitation, cooler summers, warmer winters, and a generally stormier climate year-round than the mainland.

Much of Prince Edward Island's rolling landscape was once covered by Acadian (mixed) forest, but is now open farmland (48%). Where forest remains – in hedge rows, abandoned fields, and in Acadian Forest remnants, the trees include: red, black and white spruce, eastern white pine, tamarack, yellow birch, red oak, sugar maple, white and red pine, American beech and eastern hemlock.
There is also a large expanse of dunes (now protected) that form parallel to the island's northern coast and on the barrier islands.
The island has a small amount of wetlands (5%)and include some bog and fens inland and salt marshes where the rivers meet the ocean. The salt marshes are vital habitat for shorebirds.

Mammals:
Bat (Little Brown Myotis) - Myotis lucifugus
Beaver - Castor canadensis
Bobcat - Lynx rufus
Chipmunk (Eastern) - Tamias striatus
Coyote - Canis latrans
Deer (White-tailed)  - Odocoileus virginianus
Fisher - Martes pennanti
Fox (Red) - Vulpes vulpes
Hare (Snowshoe) - Lepus americanus
Lynx (Canadian) - Lynx canadensis
Marten (American) - Martes americana
Mink (American) - Neovison vison
Moose - Alces alces
Mouse (Deer) - Peromyscus maniculatus
Mouse (House) - Mus musculus
Muskrat  - Ondatra zibethicus
Otter (River) - Lontra canadensis
Raccoon - Procyon lotor
Rat (Norway) - Rattus norvegicus
Shrew (Short-tailed) - Blarina brevicauda
Skunk (Striped) - Mephitis mephitis
Squirrel (Northern Flying) - Glaucomys sabrinus
Squirrel (Red) - Tamiasciurus hudsonicus
Vole (Meadow) - Microtus pennsylvanicus
Vole (red-backed) - Clethrionomys gapperi
Weasel (Least) - Mustela nivalis
Weasel (Short-tailed or Ermine) - Mustela erminea

Birds:
albatross (black-browed)
avocet (American)
bittern (American)
bittern (least)
blackbird (Brewer's)
blackbird (red-winged)
blackbird (rusty)
blackbird (yellow-headed)
bluebird (eastern)
bobolink
bunting (indigo)
bunting (painted)
bunting (snow)
cardinal (northern)
catbird (gray)
chat (yellow-breasted)
chickadee (black-capped)
chickadee (boreal)
coot (American)
cormorant (double-crested)
cormorant (great)
cowbird (brown-headed)
crane (sandhill)
creeper (brown)
crossbill (red)
crossbill (white-winged)
crow (American)
crow (pied)
cuckoo (black-billed)
cuckoo (yellow-billed)
curlew (Eskimo) - endangered
curlew (long-billed)
dickcissel
dove (mourning)
dove (ringed-turtle)
dove (rock)
dove (white-winged)
dovekie
dowitcher (long-billed)
duck (American black)
duck (American widgeon)
duck (Barrow's goldeneye)
duck (black scoter)
duck (bufflehead)
duck (canvasback)
duck (common eider)
duck (common goldeneye)
duck (Eurasian widgeon)
duck (fulvous whistling)
duck (gadwall)
duck (garganey)
duck (greater scaup)
duck (green-winged teal)
duck (harlequin)
duck (king eider)
duck (lesser scaup)
duck (long-tailed or oldsquaw)
duck (mallard)
duck (northern pintail)
duck (northern shoveler)
duck (redhead)
duck (ring-necked)
duck (ruddy)
duck (surf scoter)
duck (tufted)
duck (white-winged scoter)
duck (wood)
dunlin
eagle (bald)
eagle (golden)
egret (cattle)
egret (great)
egret (snowy)
falcon (gyrfalcon)
falcon (peregrine)
finch (house)
finch (purple)
flamingo (American)
flicker (northern)
flycatcher (alder)
flycatcher (great-crested)
flycatcher (least)
flycatcher (olive-sided)
flycatcher (willow)
flycatcher (yellow-bellied)
fulmar (northern)
gannet (northern)
gnatcatcher (blue-gray)
godwit (Hudsonian)
godwit (marbled)
goldfinch (American)
goldfinch (European)
goose (barnacle)
goose (brant)
goose (Canada)
goose (great white-fronted)
goose (pink-footed)
goose (snow)
grackle (common)
grèbe (eared)
grèbe (horned)
grèbe (pied-billed)
grèbe (red-necked)
grosbeak (black-headed)
grosbeak (blue)
grosbeak (evening)
grosbeak (pine)
grosbeak (rose-breasted)
grouse (ruffed)
grouse (sharp-tailed)
guillemot (black)
gull (black-headed)
gull (Bonaparte’s)
gull (glaucous)
gull (great black-backed)
gull (herring)
gull (Iceland)
gull (ivory)
gull (laughing)
gull (lesser black-backed)
gull (little)
gull (mew)
gull (ring-billed)
gull (Sabine's)
gull (Thayer's)
harrier (northern)
hawk (broad-winged)
hawk (Cooper's)
hawk (northern goshawk)
hawk (red-shouldered)
hawk (red-tailed)
hawk (rough-legged)
hawk (sharp-shinned)
hawk (Swainson's)
heron (black-crowned night)
heron (great blue)
heron (green)
heron (little blue)
heron (yellow-crowned night)
hummingbird (ruby-throated)
ibis (glossy)
ibis (white)
jackdaw (Eurasian)
jaeger (long-tailed)
jaeger (parasitic)
jaeger (pomarine)
jay (blue)
jay (gray)
junco (dark-eyed)
kestrel (American)
killdeer
kingbird (eastern)
kingbird (western)
kingfisher (belted)
kinglet (golden-crowned)
kinglet (ruby-crowned)
kittiwake (black-legged)
lapwing (northern)
lark (horned)
longspur (Lapland)
loon (common)
loon (Pacific)
loon (red-throated)
martin (purple)
meadowlark (eastern)
merganser (common)
merganser (hooded)
merganser (red-breasted) or goosander
merlin
mockingbird (northern)
murre (common)
murre (thick-billed)
nighthawk (common)
oriole (Baltimore)
oriole (Bullock's)
oriole (orchard)
osprey
ovenbird
owl (barn)
owl (barred)
owl (boreal)
owl (great gray)
owl (great horned)
owl (eastern screech)
owl (long-eared)
owl (northern hawk)
owl (northern saw-whet)
owl (short-eared)
owl (snowy)
oystercatcher (American)
partridge (gray)
parula (northern)
pelican (American white)
pewee (eastern wood)
phalarope (red)
phalarope (red-necked)
phalarope (Wilson's)
pheasant (ring-necked)
phoebe (eastern)
pipit (American)
plover (American golden)
plover (black-bellied)
plover (common ringed)
plover (piping)
plover (semipalmated)
plover (Wilson's)
puffin (Atlantic)
rail (king)
rail (sora)
rail (Virginia)
raven (common)
razorbill
red knot
redpoll (common)
redpoll (hoary)
redstart (American)
robin (American)
sanderling
sandpiper (Baird's)
sandpiper (buff-breasted)
sandpiper (curlew)
sandpiper (least)
sandpiper (pectoral)
sandpiper (purple)
sandpiper (semipalmated)
sandpiper (sharp-tailed)
sandpiper (solitary)
sandpiper (spotted)
sandpiper (stilt)
sandpiper (upland)
sandpiper (western)
sandpiper (white-rumped)
shearwater (Audubon's)
shearwater (greater)
shearwater (little)
shearwater (manx)
shearwater (sooty)
shrike (loggerhead)
shrike (northern)
siskin (pine)
skimmer (black)
skua (great)
snipe (common)
solitaire (Townsend's)
sparrow (American tree)
sparrow (chipping)
sparrow (clay-colored)
sparrow (fox)
sparrow (grasshopper)
sparrow (lark)
sparrow (Nelson's sharp-tailed)
sparrow (Savannah)
sparrow (song)
sparrow (swamp)
sparrow (vesper)
sparrow (white-crowned)
sparrow (white-throated)
starling
stilt (black-necked)
storm-petrel (Leach's)
storm-petrel (Wilson's)
swallow (bank)
swallow (barn)
swallow (cliff)
swallow (northern rough-winged)
swallow (tree)
swan (tundra)
swift (chimney)
tanager (scarlet)
tanager (summer)
tern (Arctic)
tern (black)
tern (Caspian)
tern (common)
tern (Forster's)
tern (least)
tern (roseate)
tern (royal)
thrasher (brown)
thrush (Bicknell's)
thrush (gray-cheeked)
thrush (hermit)
thrush (Swainson's)
thrush (wood)
towhee (eastern)
towhee (green-tailed)
towhee (spotted)
turnstone (ruddy)
veery
vireo (blue-headed)
vireo (Philadelphia)
vireo (red-eyed)
vireo (warbling)
vireo (yellow-throated)
vulture (black)
vulture (turkey)
warbler (bay-breasted)
warbler (blackburnian)
warbler (blackpoll)
warbler (black-and-white)
warbler (black-throated blue)
warbler (black-throated gray)
warbler (black-throated green)
warbler (blue-winged)
warbler (Canada)
warbler (Cape May)
warbler (chestnut-sided)
warbler (mourning)
warbler (Nashville)
warbler (orange-crowned)
warbler (palm)
warbler (pine)
warbler (prairie)
warbler (Swainson's)
warbler (Tennessee)
warbler (Wilson's)
warbler (worm-eating)
warbler (yellow)
warbler (yellow-rumped)
warbler (yellow-throated)
waterthrush (northern)
waxwing (Bohemian)
waxwing (cedar)

whimbrel
whip-poor-will (eastern)
willet
woodcock (American)
woodpecker (American three-toed)
woodpecker (black-backed)
woodpecker (downy)
woodpecker (hairy)
woodpecker (pileated)
woodpecker (red-bellied)
woodpecker (red-headed)
woodpecker (yellow-bellied sapsucker)
wren (house)
wren (marsh)
wren (sedge)
wren (winter)
yellowlegs (greater)
yellowlegs (lesser)
yellowthroat (common)

Amphibians:
frog (northern green) - Lithobates clamitans melanota
frog (northern leopard) - Rana pipiens
frog (wood) - Lithobates sylvaticus
salamander (blue-spotted) - Ambystoma laterale
salamander (eastern or red-spotted newt or red eft) -Notophthalmus viridescens
salamander (eastern red-backed) - Plethodon cinereus
salamander (yellow spotted) - Ambystoma maculatum
spring peeper (northern) - Pseudacris crucifer
toad (American) - Anaxyrus americanus

Reptiles:
snake (maritime garter) - Thamnophis sirtalis pallidulus
snake (red-bellied) - Storeria occipitomaculata
snake (smooth green) - Opheodrys vernalis

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