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Species found at Viewing Site
| Samoa Dunes Recreation Area - Site # 183 | |
| Species: | American Pipit |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Along the beach. |
| Present Season: | W,Sp,F |
| Season View: | Sp,F |
| Reliable: | Good |
| Species: | Black Scoter |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Ocean beyond waves; Humboldt Bay entrance between jetties. |
| Present Season: | W,Sp,F |
| Season View: | W,Sp,F |
| Reliable: | Poor |
| Species: | Black Turnstone |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | On rock pilings and rip rap of the jetty. |
| Present Season: | W,Sp,F |
| Season View: | W,Sp,F |
| Reliable: | Excellent |
| Species: | Black-Capped Chickadee |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Among beach pines and willow thickets. |
| Present Season: | Yr |
| Season View: | Yr |
| Reliable: | Good |
| Species: | Brandt's Cormorant |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Ocean-bay channel and roosting on jetty rock at Humboldt Bay entrance. |
| Present Season: | Sp,Su,F |
| Season View: | Sp,Su,F |
| Reliable: | Good |
| Species: | Brown Pelican |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Beyond ocean waves. |
| Present Season: | Su,F |
| Season View: | F |
| Reliable: | Good |
| Species: | Bufflehead |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Along the bay. |
| Present Season: | W,Sp,F |
| Season View: | W,Sp,F |
| Reliable: | Good |
| Species: | California Gull |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Beyond ocean waves. |
| Present Season: | Yr |
| Season View: | W,Sp,F |
| Reliable: | Poor |
| Species: | California Sea-Lion |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Along the shore beyond ocean waves. |
| Present Season: | W,Sp,F |
| Season View: | Sp,F |
| Reliable: | Good |
| Species: | Caspian Tern |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Flying over the bay. |
| Present Season: | Yr |
| Season View: | Sp,Su,F |
| Reliable: | Good |
| Species: | Clark's Grebe |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Ocean-bay channel and on ocean beyond the waves. |
| Present Season: | W,Sp,F |
| Season View: | W,Sp,F |
| Reliable: | Poor |
| Species: | Common Loon |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Along the bay. |
| Present Season: | W,F |
| Season View: | W,F |
| Reliable: | Excellent |
| Species: | Common Murre |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Ocean-bay channel and beyond ocean waves. |
| Present Season: | Yr |
| Season View: | Sp,Su,F |
| Reliable: | Excellent |
| Species: | Common Yellowthroat |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | In willow thickets. |
| Present Season: | Sp,Su,F |
| Season View: | Su |
| Reliable: | Good |
| Species: | Double-Crested Cormorant |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Along the bay. |
| Present Season: | Yr |
| Season View: | Yr |
| Reliable: | Good |
| Species: | Dunlin |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Along the bay roosting or feeding on exposed mud flats at low tide. |
| Present Season: | W,Sp,F |
| Season View: | W,Sp,F |
| Reliable: | Good |
| Species: | Glaucous-Winged Gull |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Ocean-bay channel and on ocean beyond the waves, on rock pilings and rip rap of the jetty and on the beach. |
| Present Season: | Yr |
| Season View: | W,Sp,F |
| Reliable: | Excellent |
| Species: | Gray Whale |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Ocean beyond the waves. Often feed near the shore. |
| Present Season: | W,Sp,F |
| Season View: | Sp,F |
| Reliable: | Poor |
| Species: | Great Blue Heron |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Mini wetlands in the dunes. |
| Present Season: | Yr |
| Season View: | Yr |
| Reliable: | Good |
| Species: | Great Egret |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Along the bay and in the mini wetlands in the dunes. |
| Present Season: | Yr |
| Season View: | Yr |
| Reliable: | Good |
| Species: | Greater Scaup |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Ocean-bay channel and in the bay. |
| Present Season: | W,Sp,F |
| Season View: | W,Sp,F |
| Reliable: | Poor |
| Species: | Harbor Porpoise |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Ocean-bay channel and in the ocean beyond the waves. Often feed swimming back and forth in the channel near Humboldt Bay entrance. On the ocean, watch for porpoise fins among frenzied flocks of feeding seabirds. |
| Present Season: | Yr |
| Season View: | Yr |
| Reliable: | Good |
| Species: | Harbor Seal |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Along the shore and in ocean-bay channel. |
| Present Season: | Yr |
| Season View: | Sp,Su,F |
| Reliable: | Excellent |
| Species: | Harlequin Duck |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Humboldt Bay entrance near jetty; open ocean beyond waves. |
| Present Season: | Yr |
| Season View: | W |
| Reliable: | Poor |
| Species: | Heermann's Gull |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Ocean-bay channel, on ocean beyond waves. Frequently seen harass Brown Pelicans and steeling their fish. |
| Present Season: | Su,F |
| Season View: | Su,F |
| Reliable: | Excellent |
| Species: | Horned Grebe |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Along the bay and inside Humboldt Bay entrance between jetties. |
| Present Season: | Sp,Su,F |
| Season View: | Sp,Su,F |
| Reliable: | Good |
| Species: | Least Sandpiper |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Along the bay feeding on exposed mud flats at low tide and on the beach. |
| Present Season: | W,Sp,F |
| Season View: | W,Sp,F |
| Reliable: | Good |
| Species: | Long-Billed Curlew |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Along the bay on exposed mud flats at low tide. |
| Present Season: | W,Sp,F |
| Season View: | W,Sp,F |
| Reliable: | Poor |
| Species: | Marbled Godwit |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Along the bay on exposed mud flats at low tide. |
| Present Season: | W,Sp,F |
| Season View: | W,Sp,F |
| Reliable: | Good |
| Species: | Marbled Murrelet |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Humboldt Bay entrance channel and beyond ocean waves. |
| Present Season: | Yr |
| Season View: | Sp,Su |
| Reliable: | Poor |
| Species: | Mew Gull |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Along the bay and on the ocean. |
| Present Season: | W,Sp,F |
| Season View: | Sp,F |
| Reliable: | Good |
| Species: | Northern Harrier |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Over dunes and mini wetlands and in willow thickets. |
| Present Season: | Yr |
| Season View: | Yr |
| Reliable: | Good |
| Species: | Osprey |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Along the bay. |
| Present Season: | Sp,Su,F |
| Season View: | Sp,Su |
| Reliable: | Good |
| Species: | Parasitic Jaeger |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Ocean-bay channel at Humboldt Bay entrance. |
| Present Season: | W,Sp,F |
| Season View: | F |
| Reliable: | Good |
| Species: | Pelagic Cormorant |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Ocean-bay channel; on ocean beyond the waves, and roosting on jetty rocks at Humboldt Bay entrance._x000D_ _x000D_ |
| Present Season: | Yr |
| Season View: | Yr |
| Reliable: | Good |
| Species: | Pigeon Guillemot |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Ocean-bay channel and beyond ocean waves. |
| Present Season: | Sp,Su,F |
| Season View: | Su |
| Reliable: | Excellent |
| Species: | Red Crossbill |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Among beach pines. |
| Present Season: | W |
| Season View: | W |
| Reliable: | Good |
| Species: | Ring-Billed Gull |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Along the bay and in parking lots. |
| Present Season: | Yr |
| Season View: | Sp,F |
| Reliable: | Good |
| Species: | Ruby-Crowned Kinglet |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | In willow thickets. |
| Present Season: | W,Sp,F |
| Season View: | W,Sp,F |
| Reliable: | Good |
| Species: | Savannah Sparrow |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Dune grasslands. |
| Present Season: | Yr |
| Season View: | Yr |
| Reliable: | Good |
| Species: | Semipalmated Plover |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Ocean beaches and along the bay on exposed mud flats at low tide. |
| Present Season: | W,Sp,F |
| Season View: | W,Sp,F |
| Reliable: | Poor |
| Species: | Short-Billed Dowitcher |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Along the bay roosting or feeding on exposed mud flats at low tide. |
| Present Season: | W,Sp,F |
| Season View: | Sp,F |
| Reliable: | Good |
| Species: | Song Sparrow |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | In willow thickets. |
| Present Season: | Yr |
| Season View: | Yr |
| Reliable: | Excellent |
| Species: | Surf Scoter |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Feeding in surf near shore along the beach; Ocean beyond waves and in ocean-bay channel. |
| Present Season: | Yr |
| Season View: | W,Sp,F |
| Reliable: | Excellent |
| Species: | Surfbird |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | On rock pilings and rip rap of the jetty. |
| Present Season: | W,Sp,F |
| Season View: | W,Sp,F |
| Reliable: | Excellent |
| Species: | Wandering Tattler |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Harbor jetty and rock pilings. |
| Present Season: | Yr |
| Season View: | W,Sp,F |
| Reliable: | Poor |
| Species: | Western Grebe |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Inside Humboldt Bay entrance between jetties and the ocean. |
| Present Season: | W,Sp,F |
| Season View: | W,Sp,F |
| Reliable: | Excellent |
| Species: | Western Gull |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Ocean-bay channel and on ocean beyond the waves, on rock pilings and rip rap of the jetty and on the beach. |
| Present Season: | Yr |
| Season View: | Yr |
| Reliable: | Excellent |
| Species: | Western Sandpiper |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Along the bay feeding on exposed mud flats at low tide. |
| Present Season: | W,Sp,F |
| Season View: | W,Sp,F |
| Reliable: | Good |
| Species: | Whimbrel |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Along the bay. |
| Present Season: | Sp |
| Season View: | Sp |
| Reliable: | Excellent |
| Species: | White-Tailed Kite |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Over dunes and mini wetlands, and roosting in willow thickets. |
| Present Season: | Yr |
| Season View: | Yr |
| Reliable: | Good |
| Species: | White-Winged Scoter |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Ocean-bay channel and on ocean beyond the waves. |
| Present Season: | Yr |
| Season View: | W,Sp,F |
| Reliable: | Good |
| Species: | Willet |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Along the Bay. |
| Present Season: | W,Sp,F |
| Season View: | W,Sp,F |
| Reliable: | Good |
| Species: | Wilson's Warbler |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | In willow thickets. |
| Present Season: | Su |
| Season View: | Su |
| Reliable: | Good |
| Species: | Yellow Warbler |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | In willow thickets. |
| Present Season: | Yr |
| Season View: | Sp,Su,F |
| Reliable: | Good |
| Species: | Yellow-Rumped Warbler |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Among beach pines and in willow thickets. |
| Present Season: | W,Sp,F |
| Season View: | W,Sp,F |
| Reliable: | Excellent |