Site Report: Farallones Marine Sanctuary, United States of America
Common Dolphin (Delphinus delphis)
Western Gull (Larus occidentalis)
Sooty Shearwater (Ardenna grisea)
Black-footed Albatross (Phoebastria nigripes)
South Polar Skua (Stercorarius maccormicki)
Scripps'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)
Scripps'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
- 2002-05-28: Not sure the exact date.
- 2006-06-03: None
- 2010-05-17: took a boat trip from Half Moon Bay to pioneer canyon and a couple of seamounts near the continental shelf (about 20 miles south of Farallon Islands). Most of the birds were seen at the shelf.
- 2013-08-18: Trip from Half Moon Bay to Pioneer Canyon area.
- 2015-08-23:
- 2023-10-21: Trip from Half Moon Bay to visit Pioneer Canyon.
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
- Long-tailed Jaeger (Stercorarius longicaudus)
- Parasitic Jaeger (Stercorarius parasiticus)
- Pomarine Jaeger (Stercorarius pomarinus)
- South Polar Skua (Stercorarius maccormicki)
- Family: Loons
- Common Loon (Gavia immer)
- Pacific Loon (Gavia pacifica)
- Red-throated Loon (Gavia stellata)
- Family: Oystercatchers
- Black Oystercatcher (Haematopus bachmani)
- Family: Pelicans
- Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis)
- Family: Sandpipers and Allies
- Black Turnstone (Arenaria melanocephala)
- Red-necked Phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus)
- Red Phalarope (Phalaropus fulicarius)
- Surfbird (Calidris virgata)
- 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
- Cassin's Auklet (Ptychoramphus aleuticus)
- Common Murre (Uria aalge)
- Guadalupe Murrelet (Synthliboramphus hypoleucus)
- Pigeon Guillemot (Cepphus columba)
- Rhinoceros Auklet (Cerorhinca monocerata)
- Scripps's Murrelet (Synthliboramphus scrippsi)
- Tufted Puffin (Fratercula cirrhata)
- Family: Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers
- American Herring Gull (Larus smithsonianus)
- Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea)
- California Gull (Larus californicus)
- Common Tern (Sterna hirundo)
- Elegant Tern (Thalasseus elegans)
- Heermann's Gull (Larus heermanni)
- Sabine's Gull (Xema sabini)
- Western Gull (Larus occidentalis)
- Order: Tubenoses (12 records)
- Family: Northern Storm-Petrels
- Ashy Storm-Petrel (Hydrobates homochroa)
- Black Storm-Petrel (Hydrobates melania)
- Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel (Hydrobates furcatus)
- Leach's Storm-Petrel (Hydrobates leucorhous)
- Family: Shearwaters and Petrels
- Buller's Shearwater (Ardenna bulleri)
- Flesh-footed Shearwater (Ardenna carneipes)
- Northern Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis)
- 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
- Dall's Porpoise (Phocoenoides dalli)
- Harbor Porpoise (Phocoena phocoena)
- Family: Physeteridae
- Sperm Whale (Physeter catodon)
- Order: Even-toed Ungalates and Cetacean (4 records)