Visit to Ano Nuevo State Reserve: A guided three - mile walk to view the elephant
seal breeding area.
Not exact matches
Although ringed
seals move over wide
areas during the open water season, especially adults are quite sedentary in the
breeding season in the winter.
The rocky shores of Santa Barbara Island also provide resting and
breeding areas for California sea lions, harbor
seals and northern elephant
seals.
Elephant
seals breed annually and are seemingly faithful to colonies that have established
breeding areas.
Our research
area is Sea Lion Island (52 ° 26» S; 59 ° 05» W), the main
breeding site of elephant
seals in the Falkland Islands.
Our goal was to photograph the elephant
seals that have a
breeding area, rookery, and sanctuary here.
In the Pacific, they range from Alaska to Baja California, Mexico.1 Harbor
Seals are typically found near shore.They are found throughout the California Channel Islands including all five Islands in Channel Islands National Park.On San Miguel Island 1,100 harbor
seals breed annually on Point Bennett, which is also an extraordinary haul out
area for four other pinniped species.
On Sunday, the Sea Center of the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History will sponsor a voyage to Santa Barbara Island, a sanctuary with an
area of less than 1 square mile where sea lions and elephant
seals breed far from the madding crowd.