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Our Wildlife List

The following animals are all species that we have seen on our trips over the past 20 years. Being that some species are more common than others at different times we have included a regularity rating beside each species. In regards to migratory species such as seabirds this rating is for the time of year that the species can be found in our area.

A = Abundant                            C = Common                          U = Uncommon                         R = Rare

CETACEANS

Resident Killer Whales
Transient Killer Whales
Offshore Killer Whales
Humpback Whales
Minke Whales
Grey Whales
Fin Whales
Pacific White-sided Dolphins
Dall's Porpoises
Harbour Porpoises

 

PINNIPEDS

Harbour Seals
Stellar Sea Lions
Elephant Seals

California Sea Lions

 

OTHER MAMMALS

Black Bear
Cougar
White-tailed Deer
Mink
River Otter
Sea Otter
Wolf

 

FISHES & OTHER

Pink Salmon
Coho Salmon
Sockeye Salmon
Chum Salmon
Herring
Pilchard
Rockfish
Moon Jellyfish
Lion's mane Jellyfish
Starfish
Anenomes

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BIRDS

Pacific Loon
Red-throated Loon
Common Loon
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Western Grebe
Sooty Shearwater
Leach's Storm Petrel
Fork-tailed Storm Petrel
Pelagic Cormorant
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Greater Scaup
Harlequin Duck
Long-tailed Duck
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Black Scoter
Bufflehead
Common Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Hooded Merganser
Turkey Vulture                               Osprey
Bald Eagle
Peregrine Falcon
Sandhill Crane
Black-bellied Plover
Pacific Golden Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Black Oystercatcher
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Whimbrel
Wandering Tattler
Surfbird                                            Black Turnstone
Baird's Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Red-necked Phalarope
Parasitic Jaeger
Long-tailed Jaeger
Bonaparte's Gull
Mew Gull
Ring-billed Gull
California Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Heermann's Gull
Caspian Tern
Common Murre
Pigeon Guillemot
Marbled Murrelet
Cassin's Auklet
Rhinocerous Auklet
Tufted Puffin
Rock Pigeon
Belted Kingfisher
Anna's Hummingbird
Rufous Hummingbird
Northwestern Crow
Common Raven

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