A two hour guided walk searching for
pelagic cormorants, seaside daisies and of course, whales!
Gray Whales, Northern Elephant Seals, Harbor Seals, Sea Lions, Stellar Sea Lions, Black Oystercatchers, Great Blue Herons, and
Pelagic Cormorants can all be viewed here.
Pelagic Cormorants, a lanky, greenish - black bird, builds nests of seaweed on the precarious narrow shelves above the waves and are often seen with their wings outstretched, diving for fish.
On the south facing cliffs of Haystack Rock, the lanky, greenish - black
Pelagic Cormorant builds nests of seaweed on precarious narrow ledges high above the surf.
Peregrine falcon eyries, bald eagle nests,
a pelagic cormorant rookery, colonies of guillemots, breeding black oystercatchers and kingfishers are just some of the avian features.
The Pelagic Cormorant is known also as Brandt's Cormorant and is almost jet black with a redish beak.
two belted kingfishers, one single
pelagic cormorant, two bald eagles, and hundreds of common murres!
Not exact matches
Analogous to other smallish
cormorants, it is also occasionally called the
pelagic shag.
Nesting seabirds, including Common Murres, Tufted Puffins, Pigeon Guillemots, and Brandt's, and
Pelagic and Double - crested
Cormorants arrive on coastal rocks and islands for breeding in the spring.
Mitlenatch Island between Courtenay and Campbell River holds approx. 230 and Chrome and Gabriola Islands hold approx. 60
Pelagic and Double Crested
Cormorants.