 In addition to loons, other water birds on the lake include the great blue heron, the great egret, the sandhill crane, and the hooded merganser.Other water birds include a wide variety of ducks, grebes, bitterns, herons, terns, and mergansers as well as the Canada goose, the double-crested cormorant, the ring-billed and herring gull, the common sandpiper, the killdeer, the common snipe, the Virginia rail, the sora, the American coot, and the common moorhen.Paudash Lake lies within the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Forest region.