Wildpics

The seas were a bit choppy as we had one last morning on the boat. Mixed emotions filled us, as our wonderful experience with so much wildlife was about to end. The wonderfully diverse Baja peninsula comes to a dramatic point at a series of granitic spires that we slipped by. Many small fishing boats passed by us as we entered the harbour. Perhaps they reminded us that we had experienced this special area in a unique way that few others do. Soon we were on our way to the airport and flights home.  However, the memories of so many whales, birds and other animals will linger on for a long time. 

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Species List

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BIRDS
Pacific Diver, Great Northern Diver, Black-necked Grebe, Western Grebe, Clark’s Grebe, Black footed Albatross, Fulmar, Pink-footed Shearwater, Sooty Shearwater, Townsend’s Shearwater, Black-vented Shearwater, Black Storm-petrel, Least Storm-petrel, Red-billed Tropicbird, Blue-footed Booby, Brown Booby, Brown Pelican, Brandt’s Cormorant, Double-crested Cormorant, Pelagic Cormorant, 
Magnificent Frigatebird, Great Blue Heron, Great White Egret, Snowy Egret, Little Blue Heron, Tricoloured Heron, Reddish Egret, Green Heron, Night Heron, Yellow-crowned Night Heron, WhiteIbis, Turkey Vulture, Black Brant, Surf Scoter Red-breasted Merganser, Osprey, Northern (Hen) Harrier, Red-tailed Hawk, Crested Caracara American Kestrel, Merlin, Peregrine, Prairie Falcon, 
California Quail, Clapper Rail, Grey Plover, Snowy Plover, American Oystercatcher, American Black Oystercatcher, Greater Yellowlegs, Willet, Wandering Tattler, Spotted Sandpiper, Whimbrel,  Long-billed Curlew, Marbled Godwit, Turnstone, Black Turnstone, Surfbird, Sanderling, Short-billed Dowitcher, Red-necked, Phalarope, Grey Phalarope, Pomarine Skua, Arctic Skua, Bonaparte’s Gull, Heermann’s Gull Franklin’s Gull, California Gull, Yellow-footed Gull, Western Gull, Sabine’s Gull, Caspian Tern Royal Tern, Elegant Tern, Forster’s Tern, Xantu’s Murrelet, Craveri’s Murrelet, Cassin’s Auklet, Rhinocerous Auklet, Rock Pigeon, White-winged Dove. Morning Dove, Common Ground Dove, Greater Roadrunner, White-throated Swift, Xantu’s Hummingbird, Costa’s Hummingbird, Belted Kingfisher, Gila Woodpecker, Ladder-backed Woodpecker, Gray Flycatcher, Ash-throated Flycatcher, Loggerhead Shrike, Western Scrub Jay, Raven, Horned (Shore) Lark, Violet-green Swallow, Swallow, Verdin, Cactus Wren, Canyon Wren, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, California Gnatcatcher, Northern Mockingbird, Gray Thrasher, Phainopepla, Orange-crowned Warbler, Mangrove (Yellow) Warbler. Yellow-rumped (Audubon’s) Warbler, Clay-coloured Sparrow, Lark Sparrow, Black-throated Sparrow, Savannah Sparrow, White-crowned Sparrow, Northern Cardinal, Pyrrhuloxia, Black-headed Grosbeak, Brown-headed Cowbird, Hooded Oriole, Scott’s Oriole, House Finch, Lesser Goldfinch and

House Sparrow.

 

MARINE MAMMALS
Gray Whale, Bryde’s Whale, Blue Whale, Fin Whale, Humpback, Sperm Whale, Dwarf Sperm Whale, Short-finned Pilot Whale, Long-beaked Common Dolphin, Bottlenose Dolphin inshore and offshore forms, Harbour Seal, California Seal Lion, Northern Elephant Seal and Guadalupe Fur Seal
 
OTHER MAMMALS
White-tailed Antelope Squirrel
 
OTHER WILDLIFE
Pacific Green Turtle, Desert Iguana, Zebra-tailed Lizard, Baja Spiny Lizard, Santa Cantalina Side-botched Lizard, Western Whiptail, Catalina Rattlesnake, Sally Lightfoot Crab, Scalloped Hammerhead Shark, Thresher Shark, Mako Shark sp, Ocean Sunfish, Remora,  Striped Marlin Garibaldi, King Angel, Anchovies and Spotted Eagle Ray