Pigeon Island

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Pigeon Island Light
Canadian Coast Guard Photo

Pigeon Island is located about 15 km south of Kingston in the eastern basin of Lake Ontario. According to the International Birding Association (IBA) it is "flat, about 5 ha in size, dominated by limestone bedrock, and has a thin covering of soil and guano that supports grass and herbaceous plant communities. The only woody vegetation is a clump of dead lilac bushes near the centre of the island".
Today, a 65 foot tall metal tower supports an automatic light. From 1871 to 1909, a permanent lighthouse keeper manned the island.
Pigeon Island supports a mixed-species colony of about 6,200 bird pairs of five species. It is an Ontario provincial bird sanctuary.

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