Site Report: Farallones Marine Sanctuary
Common Dolphin (Delphinus delphis)
Western Gull (Larus occidentalis)
Sooty Shearwater (Ardenna grisea)
Black-footed Albatross (Phoebastria nigripes)
South Polar Skua (Stercorarius maccormicki)
Scripp's Murrelet (Synthliboramphus scrippsi)
Guadalupe Fur Seal (Arctocephalus townsendi)
Pink-footed Shearwater (Ardenna creatopus)
California sea lion (Zalophus californianus)
California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) Young Males
Tufted Puffin (Fratercula cirrhata)
Brandt's Cormorant (Phalacrocorax penicillatus)
Brandt's Cormorant (Phalacrocorax penicillatus)
Pigeon Guillemot (Cepphus columba)
Pigeon Guillemot (Cepphus columba)
Common Murre (Uria aalge)
Common Murre (Uria aalge)
Cassin's Auklet (Ptychoramphus aleuticus)
humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)
humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)
humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)
humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)
humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)
humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)
humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)
Steller Sea Lion (Eumetopias jubatus)
Laysan Albatross (Diomedea immutabilis)
Rhinoceros Auklet (Cerorhinca monocerata)
Red Phalarope (Phalaropus fulicaria) - Flight
Black-footed Albatross (Diomedea nigripes)
Black-footed Albatross (Diomedea nigripes)
Sabine's Gull (Xema sabini)
Pink-footed Shearwater (Ardenna creatopus)
Tufted Puffin (Fratercula cirrhata)
Long-tailed Jaeger (Stercorarius longicaudus)
Pomarine Jaeger (Stercorarius pomarinus)
Northern Right Whale Dolphin (Lissodelphis borealis)
Pacific White-sided Dolphin (Lagenorhynchus obliquidens)
Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea)
Ashy Storm-Petrel (Oceanodroma homochroa)
Wilson's Storm-Petrel (Oceanites oceanicus)
Long-tailed Jaeger (Stercorarius longicaudus) - Dark Morph
Salmon Shark (Lamna ditropis)
Wilson's Storm-Petrel (Oceanites oceanicus)
Sooty Shearwater (Ardenna grisea)
Sooty Shearwater (Ardenna grisea)
Tufted Puffin (Fratercula cirrhata) In Flight
Ashy Storm-Petrel (Oceanodroma homochroa)
Guadalupe Murrelet (Synthliboramphus hypoleucus)
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Common Dolphin (Delphinus delphis)
Western Gull (Larus occidentalis)
Sooty Shearwater (Ardenna grisea)
Black-footed Albatross (Phoebastria nigripes)
South Polar Skua (Stercorarius maccormicki)
Scripp's Murrelet (Synthliboramphus scrippsi)
Guadalupe Fur Seal (Arctocephalus townsendi)
Pink-footed Shearwater (Ardenna creatopus)
California sea lion (Zalophus californianus)
California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) Young Males
Tufted Puffin (Fratercula cirrhata)
Brandt's Cormorant (Phalacrocorax penicillatus)
Brandt's Cormorant (Phalacrocorax penicillatus)
Pigeon Guillemot (Cepphus columba)
Pigeon Guillemot (Cepphus columba)
Common Murre (Uria aalge)
Common Murre (Uria aalge)
Cassin's Auklet (Ptychoramphus aleuticus)
humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)
humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)
humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)
humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)
humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)
humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)
humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)
Steller Sea Lion (Eumetopias jubatus)
Laysan Albatross (Diomedea immutabilis)
Rhinoceros Auklet (Cerorhinca monocerata)
Red Phalarope (Phalaropus fulicaria) - Flight
Black-footed Albatross (Diomedea nigripes)
Black-footed Albatross (Diomedea nigripes)
Sabine's Gull (Xema sabini)
Pink-footed Shearwater (Ardenna creatopus)
Tufted Puffin (Fratercula cirrhata)
Long-tailed Jaeger (Stercorarius longicaudus)
Pomarine Jaeger (Stercorarius pomarinus)
Northern Right Whale Dolphin (Lissodelphis borealis)
Pacific White-sided Dolphin (Lagenorhynchus obliquidens)
Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea)
Ashy Storm-Petrel (Oceanodroma homochroa)
Wilson's Storm-Petrel (Oceanites oceanicus)
Long-tailed Jaeger (Stercorarius longicaudus) - Dark Morph
Salmon Shark (Lamna ditropis)
Wilson's Storm-Petrel (Oceanites oceanicus)
Sooty Shearwater (Ardenna grisea)
Sooty Shearwater (Ardenna grisea)
Tufted Puffin (Fratercula cirrhata) In Flight
Ashy Storm-Petrel (Oceanodroma homochroa)
Guadalupe Murrelet (Synthliboramphus hypoleucus)
A few bare rocky islands 30 miles off the coast.
Visits
No visit reports available.Species Seen
Kingdom: Animals (65 records)
Phylum: Chordates
(65 records)
Class: Birds
(47 records)
- Order: Anseriformes
(1 record)
- Family: Swans, Geese, and Ducks
- Brant (Branta bernicla)
- Order: Pelicans (17 records)
- Family: Grebes
- Western Grebe (Aechmophorus occidentalis)
- Family: Jaegers and Skuas
- South Polar Skua (Stercorarius maccormicki)
- Pomarine Jaeger (Stercorarius pomarinus)
- Parasitic Jaeger (Stercorarius parasiticus)
- Long-tailed Jaeger (Stercorarius longicaudus)
- Family: Loons
- Red-throated Loon (Gavia stellata)
- Pacific Loon (Gavia pacifica)
- Common Loon (Gavia immer)
- Family: Oystercatchers
- Black Oystercatcher (Haematopus bachmani)
- Family: Pelicans
- Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis)
- Family: Sandpipers and Allies
- Black Turnstone (Arenaria melanocephala)
- Surfbird (Calidris virgata)
- Red-necked Phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus)
- Red Phalarope (Phalaropus fulicarius)
- Order: Perching Birds
(2 records)
- Family: American Blackbirds and Orioles
- Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater)
- Family: New World Warblers
- Wilson's Warbler (Cardellina pusilla)
- Order: Shorebirds and Allies
(15 records)
- Family: Auks, Murres, Guillemots, and Puffins
- Common Murre (Uria aalge)
- Pigeon Guillemot (Cepphus columba)
- Guadalupe Murrelet (Synthliboramphus hypoleucus)
- Scripp's Murrelet (Synthliboramphus scrippsi)
- Cassin's Auklet (Ptychoramphus aleuticus)
- Rhinoceros Auklet (Cerorhinca monocerata)
- Tufted Puffin (Fratercula cirrhata)
- Family: Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers
- Heermann's Gull (Larus heermanni)
- California Gull (Larus californicus)
- Western Gull (Larus occidentalis)
- American Herring Gull (Larus smithsonianus)
- Sabine's Gull (Xema sabini)
- Elegant Tern (Thalasseus elegans)
- Common Tern (Sterna hirundo)
- Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea)
- Order: Tubenoses (12 records)
- Family: Northern Storm-Petrels
- Leach's Storm-Petrel (Hydrobates leucorhous)
- Black Storm-Petrel (Hydrobates melania)
- Ashy Storm-Petrel (Hydrobates homochroa)
- Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel (Hydrobates furcatus)
- Family: Shearwaters and Petrels
- Northern Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis)
- Buller's Shearwater (Ardenna bulleri)
- Flesh-footed Shearwater (Ardenna carneipes)
- Pink-footed Shearwater (Ardenna creatopus)
- Sooty Shearwater (Ardenna grisea)
- Family: Southern Storm Petrels
- Wilson's Storm-Petrel (Oceanites oceanicus)
Class: Cartilaginous Fish
(1 record)
- Order: Lamniformes
(1 record)
- Family: Lamnidae
- Salmon Shark (Lamna ditropis)
Class: Mammals
(17 records)
- Order: Carnivorans (6 records)
- Order: Cetacea (7 records)
- Family: Eschrichtiidae
- Gray Whale (Eschrichtius robustus)
- Family: Phocoenidae
- Harbor Porpoise (Phocoena phocoena)
- Dall's Porpoise (Phocoenoides dalli)
- Family: Physeteridae
- Sperm Whale (Physeter catodon)
- Order: Even-toed Ungalates and Cetacean (4 records)