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Outarde (other)
Outarde may refer to: Places * Pointe-aux-Outardes, Quebec, a municipality in Quebec on the north shore of the St Lawrence estuary, between the mouths of the Outardes and Manicouagan Rivers * Chute-aux-Outardes Chute-aux-Outardes is a village municipality in Quebec, Canada, at the mouth of the Outardes River. It is about south-west of Baie-Comeau along Route 138. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada S ..., a village in at the mouth of the Outardes River Other uses * ''Outarde'' (ship, 1939) * '' Outarde somalienne'', the French name of a bird otherwise known as the little brown bustard (''Eupodotis humilis'') See also * Rivière aux Outardes (other) {{Disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pointe-aux-Outardes, Quebec
Pointe-aux-Outardes is a village municipality in Quebec, Canada, on the southern point of the Manicouagan Peninsula between the mouths of the Outardes and Manicouagan Rivers. The place is named after a piece of land that juts out into the Saint Lawrence River The St. Lawrence River (french: Fleuve Saint-Laurent, ) is a large river in the middle latitudes of North America. Its headwaters begin flowing from Lake Ontario in a (roughly) northeasterly direction, into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, connectin ... and partially encloses the Outardes Bay: ''Pointe aux Outardes''. It literally means "Point of Bustards", but ''Outarde'' can also be translated as "Canada goose". In fact, Canada geese and snow goose, snow geese use the nearby Manicouagan River as a corridor in their annual migration and stopover at the point. The Innu called it ''Piletipistu Neshkâu'', meaning "point of the Partridge River". But the term ''Outardes'' was used on Guérard's map of 1631 and on Jean-Baptiste- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chute-aux-Outardes
Chute-aux-Outardes is a village municipality in Quebec, Canada, at the mouth of the Outardes River. It is about south-west of Baie-Comeau along Route 138. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada Statistics Canada (StatCan; french: Statistique Canada), formed in 1971, is the agency of the Government of Canada commissioned with producing statistics to help better understand Canada, its population, resources, economy, society, and cultur ..., Chute-aux-Outardes had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. Population trend: * Population in 2021: 1391 (2006 to 2011 population change: -11%) * Population in 2016: 1563 * Population in 2011: 1644 * Population in 2006: 1853 * Population in 2001: 1968 * Population in 1996: 2155 * Population in 1991: 2161 Mother tongue: * English as first language: 0.4% * French as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Outarde (ship, 1939)
SS ''Brulin'' was a lake freighter that worked the North American Great Lakes routes from 1924 to 1960. She was renamed ''Outarde'' in 1939, and ''James J. Buckler'' in 1960, shortly before she ran aground and sank during salvage operations. ''Brulin'' was built by Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Hebburn-on-Tyne and launched on 31 July 1924, for the Montreal Forwarding Company. She was built to the maximum dimensions of the canal locks that preceded the St Lawrence Seaway. Career She was involved in a number of incidents in her career. In August 1925 she ran aground at the head of the Morrisburg Canal. On the night of 15 July 1926 she struck and sank the tugboat '' Emma L'', off Windmill Point, killing six of the tugboat's seven crew, and in 1932 she ran aground on Seven Acre Shoal off Kingston Ontario. In 1935 she found the tank barge '' Bruce Hudson'' adrift and abandoned on Lake Erie, and was able to collect a salvage fee. On 15 November 1939 the ''Brul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Outarde Somalienne
The little brown bustard (''Eupodotis humilis'') is a species of bird in the family Otididae. Found in Ethiopia and Somalia, its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland. As indicated by its name, this bustard is the world's smallest at 45 cm (18 in) and 600 grams (1.3 lb). It is threatened by habitat destruction. Description The smallest species in its genus, the little brown bustard reaches a maximum length of about . They are light brown birds with whitish underparts. The male has a black tuft on the nape, and a black throat speckled with white. The female lacks these black areas, instead having heavy buff spotting on the back, wings and breast. Both male and female have dark flight feathers on the wings, and when flying show a slender white wing-bar, which divides the black feathers from the sandy-brown wing coverts. The female white-bellied bustard (''Eupodotis senegalensis''), which h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |