The Rochers aux Oiseaux (French pronunciation: [ʁɔʃe oz‿wazo], Bird Rocks) are an uninhabited archipelago in Quebec, Canada, located in the Gulf of St. Lawrence off the Magdalen Islands.

The Rochers aux Oiseaux are located in eastern Canada and Quebec, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 32 kilometers northeast of the northern tip of the Magdalen Islands.

These cliffs are retreating under the effect of sea erosion, having caused the island to lose half its surface area in 150 years.

[8] In addition to birdlife, the lower cliffs of Bird Rock are home to marine mammals such as the Harbour and Grey seals.

[10] Only a few of these are exploited by man: American lobster (Homarus americanus), snow crab (Chionoecetes opilio), redfish (Sebastes sp.

The most common species are yarrow (Achillea millefolium), shepherd's purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris), foxtail barley (Hordeum jubatum) and sea plantain (Plantago maritima).

[12] As with the rest of the Magdalen Islands archipelago, the Rochers aux Oiseaux were visited by the Mi'kmaq for fishing and seal hunting.

The current name appeared at an unknown date, but the archipelago was already called "Rochers aux Oiseaux" in 1919 by Brother Marie-Victorin.

[14] The Rochers aux Oiseaux is the closest island in the archipelago to the Laurentian Channel, making it an ideal site for a lighthouse.

[15] The fourth keeper, Télesphore Turbide, operated the lighthouse for fifteen accident-free years,[15] until one day in 1896, when he lost a hand in the fog cannon, putting an end to his career.

The mission of this protected area, which includes the archipelago's four hectares of land and the 645-hectare maritime zone around the rocks[19] (a total of 649 ha), is to preserve an important nesting site for the Northern gannet.

Rocher aux Oiseaux is also recognized as a "bird colony on an island or peninsula" by the Quebec government, with a surface area of 5.26 hectares.

The archipelago has been designated a Migratory Bird Sanctuary following an interdepartmental agreement with the Canadian Wildlife Service, the organization responsible for its protection.

Singer Georges Langford wrote a song entitled "Le Rocher-aux-Oiseaux" for an album released in 2003, recounting the loneliness of a lighthouse keeper and his family "12 miles from nowhere".

[22] In 1999, novelist Gervais Pomerleau published a novel, Rocher-aux-oiseaux, the fifth volume in the cycle Les Chevaucheurs de vague, which focused on the tragic fate of the lighthouse keepers.