A Natural History of Digges Sound
Digges Sound, lapping at the northern tip of the Ungava Peninsula, lies at the junction of Hudson Strait and Hudson Bay. It is celebrated for its huge colonies of Thick-billed Murres’ which have attracted the attention of visitors to the area from the time of Henry Hudson. Their breeding sites line both sides of the sound, stretching unbroken along 4 km of cliffs on Digges Island and extending in slightly fragmented fashion along
8 km of the Quebec mainland south of Cape Wolstenholme. Between them, they constitute the largest aggregation of Thick-billed Murres in Canada. From 1979-1982 the Canadian Wildlife Service conducted intensive research on the seabirds and other marine life of this area.
