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Find content specifically related to birds of the Puget Sound and Salish Sea ecosystems. For checklists and descriptive accounts of individual species, visit our species library.

Species Lists

Salish Sea-reliant Birds
Terrestrial Vertebrates: Birds
Species of Concern in the Salish Sea (filtered by birds)
Species of Concern in the Puget Sound Basin (filtered by birds)

Additional resources

Birdweb

Overview

Marine birds

More than 70 bird species regularly utilize Puget Sound during some or all stages of their life histories, but only a portion of these are actively being investigated.

Brandt's cormorant (Phalacrocorax penicillatus). Photo by Finley and Bohlman, courtesy U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

2012-09-21

Protection Island

Protection Island, a National Wildlife Refuge in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, provides important habitat for seabirds and marine mammals.

2012-09-18

2011 Puget Sound Marine Waters Overview

The Puget Sound Marine Waters 2011 report is now available. The report was produced by the Puget Sound Ecosystem Monitoring Program and assesses the condition and quality of the waters of Puget Sound.

Rhinoceros Auklet carrying sandlances. Photo by Peter Hodum.

2012-07-27

Sounds of rhinoceros auklets and chick

Audio recordings of rhinoceros auklets on Protection Island.

Interesection of NW GAP Hydrological Units and Puget Sound WRIAs

2012-06-11

Puget Sound terrestrial vertebrates

The Encyclopedia of Puget Sound, in cooperation with the USGS, has developed a list of terrestrial vertebrates occurring within the Puget Sound basin.

Great blue heron fishing. Photo: Leo Shaw, The Seattle Aquarium.

2007-01-01

Food Web

Puget Sound hosts more than 100 species of seabirds, 200 species of fish, 15 marine mammal species, hundreds of plant species, and thousands of invertebrate species. These species do not exist in isolation, but rather interact with each other in a variety of ways: they eat and are eaten by each other; they serve as vectors of disease or toxins; they are parasitic; and they compete with each other for food, habitat, and other resources.