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Whalehead Island
A group of rocks on the southern Oregon coast off the mouth of Whalehead Creek, less than a mile south of Samuel H. Boardman State Park.
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Whalehead Island
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A group of rocks on the southern Oregon coast off the mouth of Whalehead Creek, less than a mile south of Samuel H. Boardman State Park.
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Location: On the southern Oregon coast off the mouth of Whalehead Creek, less than a mile south of Samuel H. Boardman State Park, southern Curry County.
Description: This site includes four rocks that serve as major seabird breeding colonies. Three of these rocks are heavily vegetated and provide habitat for burrow-nesting seabirds while the fourth contains significant rocky exposed areas where Common Murre nests.
Ornithological Highlights: This site hosts more than 167,000 breeding seabirds, including 29% of the Oregon Leach's Storm-Petrel nesting population and 5% of the Common Murre population.For more information on Whalehead Island, please see the Technical Site Report in the National IBA database.
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Location: On the southern Oregon coast off the mouth of Whalehead Creek, less than a mile south of Samuel H. Boardman State Park, southern Curry County.
Description: This site includes four rocks that serve as major seabird breeding colonies. Three of these rocks are heavily vegetated and provide habitat for burrow-nesting seabirds while the fourth contains significant rocky exposed areas where Common Murre nests.
Ornithological Highlights: This site hosts more than 167,000 breeding seabirds, including 29% of the Oregon Leach's Storm-Petrel nesting population and 5% of the Common Murre population.
For more information on Whalehead Island, please see the Technical Site Report in the National IBA database.
