Gray Whales
Humpback Whales
Blue Whales
Fin Whales
Bryde's Whales
Sperm Whales
Killer Whales
Pilot Whales
Long-beaked common Dolphins
Short-beaked common Dolphins
Bottlenose Dolphins

Seals and sea lions commonly seen on Searcher Natural History Tours:

California sea lions
Harbor seals
Northern elephant seals
Guadalupe fur seals

Birds commmly seen on Searcher Natural History Tours

Compiled by: Linda Lewis
Updates provided by: Gaynell Schenck and Phil Palmer
Organization thanks to: Jol Mitchell

Sequence and names follow that in the American Birding Association Trip List for North American Birds..

Common Loon Pacific Loon Eared Grebe Western Grebe Black-footed Albatross Laysan Albatross Northern Fulmar Pink-footed Shearwater Black-vented Shearwater Sooty Shearwater Black Storm Petrel Ashy Storm Petrel Red-billed Tropicbird Blue-footed Booby Brown Booby Brown Pelican White Pelican Double-crested Cormorant Brandt's Cormorant Pelagic Cormorant Magnificent Frigatebird Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Little Blue Heron Tri-colored Heron Reddish Egret Black-crowned Night heron Yellow-crowned Night heron White Ibis Brant Surf Scoter Red-breasted Merganser Turkey Vulture Osprey Northern Harrier Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel Peregrine Falcon California Quail Clapper Rail Common Moorhen American Coot Black-bellied Plover Wilson's Plover American Oystercatcher Black Oystercatcher Greater Yellowlegs Willet Wandering Tattler Spotted Sandpiper Red-necked Phalarope Whimbrel Long-billed Curlew Marbled Godwit Black Turnstone Ruddy Turnstone Surfbird Sanderling Western Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Dowitcher (spp.) Pomarine Jaeger Long-tailed Jaeger Bonaparte's Gull

Heermann's Gull Ring-billed Gull California Gull Yellow-footed Gull Western Gull Glaucous-winged Gull Herring Gull Black-legged Kittiwake Sabine's Gull Forster's Tern Least Tern Caspian Tern Royal Tern Elegant Tern Common Tern Xantus' Murrelet Craveri's Murrelet Cassin's Auklet Rhinoceros Auklet White-winged Dove Ground Dove White-throated swift Xantus' Hummingbird (Baja endemic) Anna's Hummingbird Costa's Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Gila Woodpecker Ladder-backed Woodpecker Ash-throated Flycatcher Black Phoebe Vermillion Flycatcher Horned Lark Violet-green Swallow Raven Verdin Cactus Wren Rock Wren Canyon Wren Ruby-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Black-tailed Gnatcatcher Northern Mockingbird Gray Thrasher (Baja endemic) Phainopepla Loggerhead Shrike Orange-crowned Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-and-white Warbler Yellow Warbler (mangrove warbler sub-species) Common Yellowthroat Black-headed Grosbeak Northern Cardinal House Sparrow Clay-colored Sparrow Lark Sparrow Black-throated Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Song Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Hooded Oriole House Finch Lesser Goldfinch